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When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
When did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
- 1891
- 1893
- 1915 (correct)
- 1921
What was the main article of clothing associated with Gandhi?
What was the main article of clothing associated with Gandhi?
- Suit
- Shirt
- Dhoti (correct)
- Sari
How did Gandhi die?
How did Gandhi die?
- Natural causes
- Assassination
- Accident
- Hunger strike (correct)
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Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born in October 1869 in Gujarat, India.
- He trained in law at the Inner Temple in London and was called to the bar in 1891.
- Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 and began to work as a lawyer, but was unsuccessful.
- In 1915, he returned to India and began to lead campaigns for civil rights and freedom.
- Gandhi became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1921 and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted the short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn as a mark of identification with India's rural poor.
- In the months following independence, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi died in January 1948, just a few months after the first of these strikes ended.
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