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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?
- South Africa (correct)
- Pakistan
- England
- India
What was Gandhi's goal in undertaking hunger strikes?
What was Gandhi's goal in undertaking hunger strikes?
- To gain independence for India
- To stop religious violence (correct)
- To end untouchability
- To expand women's rights
What did Gandhi campaign for in India?
What did Gandhi campaign for in India?
- Expanding men's rights
- Achieving self-rule (correct)
- Easing poverty in South Africa
- Building religious and ethnic animosity
What was the result of Britain granting independence to India in 1947?
What was the result of Britain granting independence to India in 1947?
What was Gandhi's occupation before becoming a political leader?
What was Gandhi's occupation before becoming a political leader?
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Study Notes
- 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.
- He inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu family in coastal Gujarat, India.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 and lived there for 21 years, where he first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- He returned to India in 1915 and assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- He was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
- In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
- Gandhi undertook hunger strikes to stop religious violence and the last of these, begun in Delhi on 12 January 1948, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
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