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What was Gandhi's primary method of resistance?
What was Gandhi's vision for India?
What was the name of the coastal town where Gandhi was born?
What was the name of Gandhi's wife, whom he married at the age of 13?
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What was the name of the bill that Gandhi opposed in South Africa?
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What is the name of Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance?
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What was the name of the campaign against the British salt tax?
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What was the name of the act passed by the British that allowed them to arrest civil disobedience participants?
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Which movement did Gandhi support to gain political co-operation from Muslims against British imperialism?
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What was the name of the group of stretcher-bearers formed by Gandhi during the Boer War?
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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.
- Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.
- He was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula in British India.
- Gandhi was deeply influenced by his mother, who was an extremely pious lady.
- He was married at the age of 13 to Kasturbai Makhanji Kapadia in an arranged marriage.
- Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged in the early 1940s by a Muslim nationalism that demanded a separate homeland for Muslims within British India.
- He was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a militant Hindu nationalist, on January 30, 1948.
- Gandhi dropped out of college in Bombay and was advised by a family friend to consider law studies in London.
- In London, Gandhi made a vow to abstain from meat, alcohol, and women in front of his mother to persuade her to let him go.
- Gandhi joined the London Vegetarian Society and was elected to its executive committee.
- He also enrolled at Inner Temple with the intention of becoming a barrister and demonstrated a keen interest in the welfare of London's impoverished dockland communities.
- Gandhi faced discrimination in South Africa due to his skin color and heritage, including being beaten, kicked, and thrown off a train.
- He extended his stay in South Africa to assist Indians in opposing a bill to deny them the right to vote.
- Gandhi helped found the Natal Indian Congress and moulded the Indian community of South Africa into a unified political force.
- During the Boer War, Gandhi volunteered to form a group of stretcher-bearers as the Natal Indian Ambulance Corps.
- Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a Hindu nationalist who opposed his views on partition and believed he favored Muslims.
- Gandhi is widely known for his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, which he used in his campaigns for Indian independence from British rule.
- Gandhi was trained and medically certified to serve on the front lines and was an auxiliary at the Battle of Colenso to a White volunteer ambulance corps.
- Gandhi adopted his methodology of Satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or nonviolent protest, for the first time in 1906.
- Gandhi initially focused on Indians and Africans in South Africa, but later shifted his focus to racism against Africans.
- In 1910, Gandhi established Tolstoy Farm near Johannesburg, where he nurtured his policy of peaceful resistance.
- Gandhi returned to India in 1915 and joined the Indian National Congress, taking leadership in 1920.
- Gandhi and the Congress declared the independence of India on 26 January 1930.
- Gandhi demanded immediate independence in 1942 and the British responded by imprisoning him and tens of thousands of Congress leaders.
- Gandhi attempted to recruit combatants for World War I, but stipulated that he personally would not kill or injure anybody, friend or foe.
- Gandhi's first major achievement came in 1917 with the Champaran agitation in Bihar.
- In 1918, Kheda was hit by floods and famine and the peasantry was demanding relief from taxes. Gandhi moved his headquarters.
- Gandhi initiated a signature campaign in Kheda, where peasants pledged non-payment of revenue tax.
- A social boycott of revenue officials was also implemented.
- The British passed the Rowlatt Act, which allowed them to arrest civil disobedience participants.
- Gandhi supported the Khilafat movement to gain political co-operation from Muslims against British imperialism.
- The Khilafat movement collapsed by the end of 1922.
- Gandhi advocated for non-violent non-co-operation and the boycott of British goods, institutions, and law courts.
- He was arrested for sedition in 1922 and sentenced to six years' imprisonment.
- The Indian National Congress split into factions during Gandhi's imprisonment.
- Gandhi was released in 1924 and continued to pursue swaraj.
- The Salt Satyagraha, or Salt March, was a campaign against the British salt tax.
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Test your knowledge on the life and legacy of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi with this informative quiz. Learn about his early life, education, and the events that led him to become a prominent leader in India's independence movement. Discover how he developed his philosophy of nonviolent resistance, known as Satyagraha, and how he used it to achieve social and political change. Challenge yourself with questions on Gandhi's achievements, his struggles, and his impact on the world. This quiz is perfect for
