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When did Mahatma Gandhi begin to lead the Indian National Congress?
When did Mahatma Gandhi begin to lead the Indian National Congress?
True or false: Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869.
True or false: Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869.
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What did Gandhi do to identify with India's rural poor?
What did Gandhi do to identify with India's rural poor?
True or false: Gandhi led campaigns to end poverty and discrimination against Indians.
True or false: Gandhi led campaigns to end poverty and discrimination against Indians.
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and began working in India in 1891 but was unable to start a successful law practice due to discrimination against Indians.
- In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and began to lead the Indian National Congress, a leading political organization fighting for Indian independence from British rule.
- 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.
- In the months following independence in 1947, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 while fasting in Delhi.
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Gandhi was a powerful figure in the Indian independence movement. He led the Indian National Congress, a leading political organization fighting for Indian independence from British rule. Gandhi's strategies included peaceful protests such as fasting, and using nonviolent tactics such as satyagraha. In 1947, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence. He was assassinated in 1948 while fasting in Delhi.