Daily Quiz | On Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi addressing the Constructive Workers Conference on Janauary 26, 1946, at the Hindi Prachar Sabha.
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In his autobiographical reflections, Gandhi writes about how as a young student in school, he was the only one in his class to get the spelling of a word wrong as he had refused to copy the correct one from his neighbour, in a spelling exercise conducted by a school inspector. What was that five letter word?
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One of the first associations that Gandhi became a member of, in 1890, was because of the influence of a social reformer, writer and pacifist Henry Salt. Name the association.
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On 11 September 1906, at a mass protest meeting held at Johannesburg, Gandhi adopted a form of protest for the first time, to agitate against a promulgation by the Transvaal government to compulsorily register all Indian and Chinese populations. What was this protest later called?
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After his return from South Africa to India in 1915, what was the only occasion that Gandhi used to travel outside (colonial) India before his death in 1948? Which former editor of The Hindu acted as Gandhi’s secretary during his occasion?
Answer : The Second Round Table Conference. A Rangaswamy Iyengar
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One of Gandhi’s final acts as a satyagrahi before his death was his heroic effort to stop the communal violence that had gripped many parts of North and East India in the run-up to and after the Partition of the country. Name the place he was staying in Calcutta (it is now called Gandhi Bhawan) when India won independence on August 15, 1947.
