Test Your Knowledge of Mahatma Gandhi and His Legacy

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What was the primary goal of Gandhi's Dandi Salt March in 1930?

  • To demand the British to quit India
  • To achieve swaraj or self-rule
  • To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
  • To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination

Where did Gandhi first employ nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights?

  • Pakistan
  • India
  • South Africa (correct)
  • England

What was the main reason for the partition of the British Indian Empire in 1947?

  • To grant independence to India and Pakistan (correct)
  • To ease poverty and expand women's rights
  • To challenge the British-imposed salt tax
  • To end untouchability and build religious and ethnic amity

What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in 1948?

<p>To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Gandhi adopt as a mark of identification with India's rural poor?

<p>Short dhoti woven with hand-spun yarn (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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