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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?
- Pakistan
- India
- South Africa (correct)
- London
What was the main goal of Gandhi's 1930 Dandi Salt March?
What was the main goal of Gandhi's 1930 Dandi Salt March?
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To expand women's rights
- To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
- To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
What was the outcome of Britain's grant of independence to India in 1947?
What was the outcome of Britain's grant of independence to India in 1947?
- All of the above
- Religious violence broke out, especially in the Punjab and Bengal
- India was partitioned into two dominions (correct)
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was achieved