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What did Gandhi do in 1915?
What did Gandhi do in 1915?
- Joined the Indian National Congress (correct)
- Started a successful law practice
- Moved to India
- Began to lead a political organization
What did Gandhi adopt as a mark of identification with India's rural poor?
What did Gandhi adopt as a mark of identification with India's rural poor?
- A long dhoti
- A short dhoti (correct)
- A turban
- A saree
What did Gandhi do in the months following independence in 1947?
What did Gandhi do in the months following independence in 1947?
- Fasted as a protest
- Campaigned for poverty
- Led a religious movement
- Undertook several hunger strikes (correct)
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and began working in India in 1891 but was unable to start a successful law practice due to discrimination against Indians.
- In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and began to lead the Indian National Congress, a leading political organization fighting for Indian independence from British rule.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and, above all, achieving swaraj or self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with Indias rural poor.
- He began to live in a self-sufficient residential community, to eat simple food, and undertake long fasts as a means of both introspection and political protest.
- In the months following independence in 1947, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 while fasting in Delhi.
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