Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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Where was Gandhi educated and what did he study?  Was he any good at it? 

Gandhi was educated in India and in London, in India he studied law unsuccessfully, until he moved to South Africa.

What other activities did Gandhi engage in while in South Africa? 

Organized his first satyagraha and involved himself in the fight to end discrimination against the country’s Indian minority.

What caused Gandhi’s philosophy to change? 

Gandhi’s philosophy changed when he read wildly and drawing inspiration from Bhagavad-Gita, John Ruskin, leo Tolstoy, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau

What word from the text best describes his life after his change in personal philosophy?

Abstemiously - Sparingly

What three examples were offered for his change?  

He abandoned Western ways and lived abstemiously, including celibacy, which became symbolized in his eschewal of material possessions and his dress of loincloth and shawl.

Describe Gandhi’s first satyagraha.   

 Gandhi’s first satyagraha is a campaign of civil disobedience in a nonviolent resistance to what he regarded as unjust laws.

What was the result?     

They turned out to be so successful that his activities that he secured an agreement from the South African government that promised the alleviation of anti-indian discrimination.

Why did Gandhi support the Brits in WWI? 

He supported the British in World War 1 in hopes of hastening India's freedom.

What did he do that embarrassed the British? 

 He embarrassed the British by leading agrarian and labor reform demonstrations.

What was The Amritsar massacre?  How would you characterize it? 

The Amritsar massacre was a nonviolent demonstration where hundreds of of indian nationalists were killed and thousands wounded when troops under British control opened fire

What led Gandhi to stop his satyagraha?  

 He discontinued Satyagraha campaigns when against his wishes, violent disorder ensued.

What three things comprised his agenda? 

A free, united India, revival of cottage industries, abolition of untouchability.

What was Gandhi’s title?  What did it mean? 

Mahatma - (great soul-reputed to have knowledge and powers of a higher orde than those of ordinary men).

What was Gandhi’s protest in 1930 all about? What was the result? 

In 1930 a protest against the government’s salt tax the result was imprisonment but he was let out in 1931 because he had attend the London Round Table Conference on india as the sole representative of the indian national congress.

Why did Gandhi leave the Congress? 

Gandhi left the Congress since it refused to embrace his program in its entirety.

What deal did Gandhi try to make with the British during WWII?  

He offered to cooperate with Great Britain in World War II if they would grant immediate independence to India.

What was the result? 

He was rejected and called for satyagraha and launched the Quit India movement, then being interned until 1944.

Gandhi was a major player in achieving what two things? 

 Gandhi played a major role in the postwar conferences that led to India’s independence and the carving out of a separate Muslim state (Pakistan).

Why was Gandhi assassinated? 

He was murdered by a Hindu fanatic who was angered by Gandhi's concern for the Muslims.

What was the lasting effects of Gandhi’s ways? 

His methods were adopted by protagonists of civil rights in the United States and by many protest movements throughout the world.