Mahatma Gandhi Quiz

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in the coastal town of Porbandar, Gujarat.
• He trained as a lawyer and was called to the bar in 1892.
• Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.
• He lived in South Africa for 21 years.
• In 1915, aged 45, Gandhi returned to India and soon set about organising peasants, farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination.
• Gandhi assumed leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921.
• 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.
• Gandhi was imprisoned many times and for many years in both South Africa and India.
• In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
• Gandhi visited the affected areas following independence, attempting to alleviate distress.
• Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop the religious violence.
• The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.

Mahatma Gandhi was a prominent advocate for nonviolent resistance. He believed that this form of protest was the most effective way to achieve social change. His campaigns for civil rights, economic justice, and self-rule for India were successful, and his teachings continue to be influential today.

Test your knowledge of Mahatma Gandhi, a key figure in India's struggle for independence. Learn about his life, beliefs, and contributions to social and political change.