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Champaran, the site of Gandhi's first experiment of Satyagraha is located in the state of ___________.

  1. Bihar

  2. Kerala

  3. Gujarat

  4. Punjab
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A Correct answer
Explanation

In April 1917, the Champaran Satyagraha in Motihari, Bihar laid the foundation for Gandhi in India. It was the first peasant movement to have garnered nationwide attention. It was a struggle of the cultivators who were forced by Europeans to grow indigo, a blue dye.

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Which of the following is not one of the reasons why Mahatma Gandhi is known as the Father of Nation?

  1. He was universally adored, admired and respected by all castes, communities and classes

  2. Starting with opposition to the Rowlatt Acts, till the Quit India Movement he was the supreme leader and the main spirit behind the national movement

  3. His social political, economic and religious ideologies were based on Indian values with a very strong moral and ethical content

  4. He was the founder President of the Indian National Congress
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Mahatma Gandhi was never the President of the Indian National Congress; he served as the president only once in 1924 at the Belgaum session.

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The name of the periodical published by Gandhi during his stay in South Africa was ________.

  1. Navjivan

  2. India Gazette

  3. Afrikaner

  4. Indian Opinion
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The Indian Opinion was a newspaper established by Mahatma Gandhi. He decided in 1903 to launch the newspaper in response to the growing need in South Africa to voice effectively the feelings of Indians against racial intolerance of the white regime. 

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According to Gandhi, ahimsa could not be construed to mean.

  1. Truth

  2. A positive state of law

  3. Tolerance of the wrong unjust

  4. Doing good even to the evildoers
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi emphasized that ahimsa is an active force of love and soul-power, not merely passive tolerance or cowardice. It requires standing up against injustice, not accepting it.

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Gandhi gave the call to reject all foreign goods during the ___________ Movement.

  1. Khilafat

  2. Non-cooperation

  3. Swadeshi

  4. Civil Disobedience
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Non-cooperation movement was an attempt organized by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920 to induce the British government of India to grant self-government, or swaraj, to India. Gandhi gave a call for boycott of foreign goods, surrendering all titles and honorary offices and resign from nominated seats in local bodies, etc. It was suddenly adjourned due to the violent Chauri Chaura incident in 1922.

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Whom had Gandhi named as Mira Behn?

  1. Annie Besant

  2. Kamla Devi

  3. Indira Gandhi

  4. Madeline Slade
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Madeline Slade was named Mira Behn by Gandhi. She was a British-born follower of Mohandas K. Gandhi who participated in the movement for India’s independence. She was active in spreading the spirit of nonviolence and was arrested multiple times, including during a period of civil disobedience in 1932–33.

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Who has set up the Anti-Untouchability League for the eradication of the evil of untouchability?

  1. Jagjivan Ram

  2. Dr BR Ambedkar

  3. Acharya Kripalani

  4. Mahatma Gandhi
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D Correct answer
Explanation

Gandhi while in jail in 1932 had set up the All India Anti Untouchability League in September 1932 and had started the weekly Harijan in January 1933. He handed the responsibility for running it in the hands of two of his close associates, the industrialist, G.D. Birla, and the social worker, A.V. Thakkar. After the signing of Poona Pact, this organization was renamed the Harijan Sewak Sangh.