Multiple choice

Who among the following described Mahatma Gandhi as “half-naked fakir”?

  1. Joseph Stalin

  2. Winston Churchill

  3. Mussolini

  4. Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Explanation

Winston Churchill described Mahatma Gandhi as a 'seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a half-naked fakir.' Churchill was provoked to describe Mahatma Gandhi as a 'seditious Middle Temple lawyer' because when Gandhi was in London, as a lawyer, he wore western attire. While on his return to India, a year after the launch of the non-cooperation movement, Gandhi adopted the dress of the poorest Indian-khadi dhoti made of coarse homespun cotton yarn. 

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