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What was Gandhi's primary method of resistance during India's fight for independence?
What was Gandhi's primary method of resistance during India's fight for independence?
- Military intervention
- Violent rebellion
- Peaceful protests (correct)
- Political negotiations
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?
- India
- South Africa (correct)
- London
- United States
What were some of the campaigns that Gandhi led in India?
What were some of the campaigns that Gandhi led in India?
- Expanding women's rights and achieving self-rule
- Building religious and ethnic amity and ending untouchability
- Easing poverty and protesting against excessive land-tax and discrimination
- All of the above (correct)
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- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- He was born in 1869 in coastal Gujarat, India, and trained in law in London.
- Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- In 1915, he returned to India and began organizing peasants, farmers, and urban laborers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted a simple lifestyle and undertook long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- He led the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930 and called for the British to quit India in 1942.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism, leading to the partition of India in 1947 and subsequent religious violence.
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