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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)
- Pakistan
- United Kingdom
- India
What was the main goal of the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930?
What was the main goal of the 400 km Dandi Salt March in 1930?
- To expand women's rights
- To end untouchability
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule (correct)
- To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike, which began in Delhi on 12 January 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike, which began in Delhi on 12 January 1948?
- To stop the religious violence
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
- To gain independence from British rule
- To achieve religious pluralism