Podcast
Questions and Answers
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?
- Pakistan
- United Kingdom
- South Africa (correct)
- India
What was the primary goal of Gandhi's 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930?
What was the primary goal of Gandhi's 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930?
- To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
- To expand women's rights
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
- To expand women's rights
- To stop the religious violence
- To pressurize India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule