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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?
- South Africa (correct)
- Great Britain
- Pakistan
- 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 expand women's rights
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
- To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike in 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike in 1948?
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
- To demand a separate homeland for Muslims within British India
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule
- To stop the religious violence in India