3 Questions
True or false: Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1891.
False
True or false: Mahatma Gandhi led a nationwide campaign to ease poverty.
True
True or false: Mahatma Gandhi began a hunger strike in 1948 to pressure India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
True
Study Notes
- Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Gujarat, India.
- He trained as a lawyer and started practicing in India in 1891, but was unsuccessful.
- He moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit and started using nonviolent resistance there.
- In 1915, he returned to India and led the Indian National Congress.
- He led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding womens rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, and achieving self-rule.
- In the months following independence in 1947, he undertook several hunger strikes to stop religious violence.
- The last of these, begun in Delhi on January 12, 1948, also had the indirect goal of pressuring India to pay out some cash assets owed to Pakistan.
- On August 15, 1947, India became an independent country. Mahatma Gandhi was the main figure behind the country's independence.
Test your knowledge about the life and contributions of Mahatma Gandhi, a prominent leader in India's struggle for independence. Learn about his early life, his work in South Africa, and his role in the Indian National Congress.
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