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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
- Britain
- South Africa (correct)
- India
What was the main goal of the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
What was the main goal of the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
- To end discrimination against peasants and farmers
- To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To expand women's rights
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike in January 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike in January 1948?
- To pressurize India to pay out cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
- To stop religious violence
- To end discrimination against peasants and farmers
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule