Mahatma Gandhi's Life Quiz

• Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
• Gandhi trained as a lawyer and moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant.
• In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and began to lead the Indian National Congress.
• 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.
• Gandhi 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 1947, Britain granted independence to India and the British Indian Empire was partitioned into two dominions, a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan.
• Gandhi attempted to alleviate distress in the months 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.

Test your knowledge on Mahatma Gandhi's life, beliefs, and contributions to India's independence movement.