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What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
- 1893
- 1915 (correct)
- 1947
- 1948
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike?
What was the indirect goal of Gandhi's last hunger strike?
- To end poverty
- To grant independence to India
- To build religious and ethnic amity
- To pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan (correct)
When did Mahatma Gandhi die?
When did Mahatma Gandhi die?
- October 2, 1869
- January 12, 1948
- January 30, 1948 (correct)
- August 15, 1947
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Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant.
- Gandhi began to use nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights.
- In 1915, he returned to India and led the Indian National Congress.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving swaraj or self-rule.
- In 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions.
- Gandhi visited the affected areas following independence and undertook several hunger strikes.
- The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- Mahatma Gandhi died on January 30, 1948.
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