5 Questions
What is the meaning of the honorific Mahātmā?
Great-souled
Where was Gandhi trained in law?
London
What was the main method Gandhi employed in his campaign for India's independence?
Peaceful protests
What challenges did Gandhi's vision of an independent India face in the early 1940s?
Muslim nationalism
What happened when Britain granted independence to India in August 1947?
India was divided into two dominions
Study Notes
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer and anti-colonial nationalist.
- He employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
- Gandhi was born in 1869 in coastal Gujarat, India.
- He trained in law in London and moved to South Africa in 1893.
- Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years and employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- In 1915, he returned to India and led nationwide campaigns for social justice, religious and ethnic amity, and self-rule.
- Gandhi led Indians in challenging the British-imposed salt tax with the Dandi Salt March in 1930.
- He was imprisoned multiple times in both South Africa and India.
- Gandhi's vision of an independent India based on religious pluralism was challenged by Muslim nationalism.
- In August 1947, Britain granted independence, but the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, India and Pakistan, leading to religious violence.
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