Gandhi

Question 1

Background info…

Answer 1

• He was born in 1869, into a very rich family and so was in a high cast.

Question 2

By which religion was he very influenced by?

Answer 2

• Jainism and this is where the idea of non-violence comes from.

Question 3

What does Jainism believe?

Answer 3

That everything has a goal.

Question 4

What would Gandhi read when he was growing up?

Answer 4

The Qur’an and the Bible

Question 5

In 1893, what did he do and what were the three races that were in South Africa?

Answer 5

He went to South Africa as a lawyer from London.

The three races were black, white and colored.

Question 6

What did everybody but white people have to carry with them in South Africa?

Answer 6

An ID card

Question 7

What did Gandhi co found in 1899?

Answer 7

The Indian Ambulance society, who helped soldiers from the Boer war.

Question 8

What did Gandhi do in 1915?

Answer 8

He returned to India during the war when India was undergoing British ruling

Question 9

Which religion had been the religion of minority in India for a very long time?

Answer 9

Hindus.

Question 10

British ruling over India…

Answer 10

There are more people of India than any other democracy.
1 in 1,000 people in India were British. This showed the power that the British had over the people of India;
“there is no country in the world that would not prefer it’s own bad to a government of an alien people”- Gandhi

Question 11

What happened in Ahmadabad?

Answer 11

It was a state in India where they were encouraged to grow cotton. After the war no one wanted the cotton, so the people of this state starved.

Question 12

What happened in Ahmadabad? How does Gandhi relate to this?

Answer 12

Gandhi started a campaign to stop landlord telling tenants what they are aloud to grow on their land so they could make a livelihood from themselves.

Question 13

What happened in Ahmadabad? What did this do to Gandhi and his recognition?

Answer 13

This is when Gandhi became a national figure in India, insisting on non-violence.
“an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”

Question 14

What does the quote “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind” talk about.

Answer 14

It talks about revenge and shows that Gandhi disagreed with this.

Question 15

What happened at Amritsar with the Sikh Golden Temple?

Answer 15

Amritsar Massacre:
Thousands of Sikhs had a meeting, following Gandhi’s non–violence. Around 3,000 Sikhs were shot by British soldiers because it was against the law.

Question 16

What was the next major incident after this? (in 1930)

Answer 16

The Salt March:
where the British gov. taxed salt in India. Gandhi was against this and was put into prison and the police violently stopped the march.

Question 17

What happened in 1947?

Answer 17

The British was willing to talk about independence and when the war ended in 1947, India gets its independence.

Question 18

India’s independence;

Answer 18

India was divided into four regions; West Pakistan , East Pakistan, Shankara and India, with all different religions.

Question 19

What year was Gandhi assasinated?

Answer 19

In 1948, by a Hindi terrorist before he was going to see Jinnah.

Question 20

Who are some people who took inspiration from Gandhi?

Answer 20

Martian Luther King;
non-violent campaigner, the idea of color blindness
“there are causes that I am prepared to die for, but there are no cause that I am prepared to kill for”
Nelson Mandela:
was influenced by reconciliation, used to be a terrorist. Learnt non-violence and also reconciliation.