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What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
What year did Mahatma Gandhi return to India?
- 1892
- 1893
- 1915 (correct)
- 1948
What was the primary goal of the Indian National Congress?
What was the primary goal of the Indian National Congress?
- To achieve independence from British rule (correct)
- To expand womens rights
- To ease poverty
- To build religious and ethnic amity
How did Gandhi identify with the Indian people?
How did Gandhi identify with the Indian people?
- He adopted the dress and lifestyle of the Indian peasantry (correct)
- He taught them the Indian National Congress
- He led nationwide campaigns
- He undertook several hunger strikes
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- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the town of Porbandar, in the Gujarat region of western India.
- He was educated at the Inner Temple in London, and became a barrister in 1892.
- Gandhi moved to South Africa in 1893 to work as an lawyer for an Indian merchant, but found little success.
- In 1915, Gandhi returned to India and began to lead the Indian National Congress, a political organization dedicated to achieving independence from British rule.
- Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule for India.
- Gandhi adopted the simple dress and lifestyle of the Indian peasantry as a mark of identification with the Indian people.
- In the years following independence, Gandhi undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- Gandhi died on January 30, 1948, after a long and successful career as an advocate for Indian independence and civil rights.
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