Question

Answer all the questions given under the caption.

Gandhi and Mass Nationalism

1. Which incident is considered a turning point in the life of Gandhi?
2. Name the works that influenced Gandhi?
3. How did Gandhi use satyagraha as a strategy in South Africa?
4. What do you know about the Champaran Satyagraha?

Answer 1

1. The racial discrimination Gandhi had personally in South Africa was a turning point.
2. He was deeply influenced by the works of Tolstoy “The Kingdom of God is within you” Ruskin's Unto this last’ and Thoreau’s ‘Civil Disobedience’.
3. Gandhiji used the strategy of Satyagraha for fighting the issues of immigration and racial discrimination.
4. Champaran Satyagraha ended the oppression of the peasants by the Indigo planters. It gave the object of ‘Civil Disobedience’. The success of Champaran Satyagraha made Gandhiji a leader of mass struggle.