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When did Mahatma Gandhi begin his political career?
When did Mahatma Gandhi begin his political career?
- 1869
- 1915 (correct)
- 1921
- 1948
What did Gandhi do to identify with the Indian rural poor?
What did Gandhi do to identify with the Indian rural poor?
- Adopted traditional Indian dress (correct)
- Lived a self-sufficient lifestyle
- Undertook several hunger strikes
- Led nationwide campaigns
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike?
- To ease poverty
- To build religious and ethnic amity
- To end untouchability
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and began his political career in South Africa.
- He returned to India in 1915 and began leading campaigns for civil rights and freedom.
- In 1921, Gandhi became the leader of the Indian National Congress and led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- Gandhi adopted the traditional Indian dress of a dhoti and began living a self-sufficient lifestyle as a way of identifying with the Indian rural poor.
- He undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence in India.
- The last of these, begun in January 1948, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.
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