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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?
- Britain
- South Africa (correct)
- India
- Pakistan
What was the goal of the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
What was the goal of the Dandi Salt March in 1930?
- To challenge the British-imposed salt tax (correct)
- To call for the British to quit India
- To protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination
- To challenge Muslim nationalism
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's hunger strike in Delhi in January 1948?
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
- To stop the religious violence in Punjab and Bengal
- To achieve swaraj or self-rule for India
- To demand a separate homeland for Muslims within British India