Gandhi

Champaran Satyagraha was related to which issue?
a) Salt Tax
b) Indigo cultivation
c) Factory workers
d) Land revenue
✅ Answer: b) Indigo cultivation
👉 (BPSC 2018) First civil disobedience led by Gandhi in 1917.
Who called Gandhi a “Half-naked Fakir”?
a) Winston Churchill
b) Lord Irwin
c) Mountbatten
d) Attlee
✅ Answer: a) Winston Churchill
👉 (BPSC 2013) He criticized Gandhi’s attire and political influence.
Which movement did Gandhi launch after Jallianwala Bagh massacre?
a) Khilafat
b) Civil Disobedience
c) Non-Cooperation
d) Quit India
✅ Answer: c) Non-Cooperation
👉 (BPSC 2014) Began in 1920 to protest British repression.
Gandhiji withdrew Non-Cooperation Movement due to:
a) Lack of support
b) Chauri Chaura violence
c) Government negotiations
d) Communal riots
✅ Answer: b) Chauri Chaura violence
👉 (BPSC 2011) He believed in non-violence above all.
The slogan “Do or Die” is associated with:
a) Salt March
b) Quit India Movement
c) Champaran
d) Non-Cooperation
✅ Answer: b) Quit India Movement
👉 (BPSC 2017) Launched in 1942 for complete independence.
Gandhiji’s first Satyagraha in India was at:
a) Kheda
b) Ahmedabad
c) Champaran
d) Bardoli
✅ Answer: c) Champaran
👉 (BPSC 2015) He addressed the plight of indigo farmers.
Where was Gandhi imprisoned in 1942?
a) Cellular Jail
b) Aga Khan Palace
c) Red Fort
d) Alipore Jail
✅ Answer: b) Aga Khan Palace
👉 (BPSC 2019) During Quit India Movement, he was kept in Pune.
Who started the individual Satyagraha in 1940?
a) Gandhi
b) Jawaharlal Nehru
c) Vinoba Bhave
d) Rajendra Prasad
✅ Answer: c) Vinoba Bhave
👉 (UPPSC 2016) First Satyagrahi of Gandhi's campaign.
Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in:
a) 1913
b) 1915
c) 1917
d) 1919
✅ Answer: b) 1915
👉 (BPSC 2012) He came at the invitation of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
Gandhiji founded which newspaper in South Africa?
a) Young India
b) Harijan
c) Indian Opinion
d) Swaraj
✅ Answer: c) Indian Opinion
👉 (BPSC 2014) Voice of the Indian community in South Africa.
Where did Gandhi experiment with communal living and farming?
a) Kheda
b) Sevagram
c) Phoenix Farm
d) Champaran
✅ Answer: c) Phoenix Farm
👉 (UPPSC 2012) One of his first Ashrams in South Africa.
Who started the Salt Satyagraha from Tamil Nadu?
a) Rajaji
b) Sardar Patel
c) Subhash Bose
d) Nehru
✅ Answer: a) Rajaji
👉 (BPSC 2015) Organized a parallel march from Tamil coast.
Where was Gandhi first arrested in India?
a) Kheda
b) Champaran
c) Ahmedabad
d) Bombay
✅ Answer: c) Ahmedabad
👉 (BPSC 2011) During the textile mill strike in 1918.
In which session did Gandhi become Congress president?
a) Lucknow 1916
b) Lahore 1929
c) Belgaum 1924
d) Karachi 1931
✅ Answer: c) Belgaum 1924
👉 (BPSC 2010) Only time he presided over INC.
In which year did Gandhi start Harijan Sevak Sangh?
a) 1930
b) 1932
c) 1934
d) 1942
✅ Answer: b) 1932
👉 (BPSC 2014) After Poona Pact to uplift Dalits.
Which pact is associated with Gandhi and Ambedkar?
a) Lucknow Pact
b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
c) Poona Pact
d) Nehru Report
✅ Answer: c) Poona Pact
👉 (BPSC 2013) Resolved the issue of separate electorates.
Which newspaper did Gandhi start for the Dalit cause?
a) Young India
b) Harijan
c) Hind Swaraj
d) Navjeevan
✅ Answer: b) Harijan
👉 (UPPSC 2014) Focused on upliftment of untouchables.
In which jail did Kasturba Gandhi die?
a) Yerwada
b) Aga Khan Palace
c) Andaman
d) Alipore
✅ Answer: b) Aga Khan Palace
👉 (BPSC 2015) Died in 1944 during imprisonment.
Gandhi called the Cripps Mission:
a) Betrayal
b) A post-dated cheque
c) Worthless proposal
d) An opportunity
✅ Answer: b) A post-dated cheque
👉 (BPSC 2012) He criticized its vague independence promise.
Gandhiji’s autobiography is titled:
a) The Story of My Truth
b) My Experiments with Truth
c) Life of Mahatma
d) Gandhian Way
✅ Answer: b) My Experiments with Truth
👉 (BPSC 2010) Written in Gujarati, translated by Mahadev Desai.

NCERT-Based (21–35)

Gandhi’s concept of Satyagraha meant:
a) Armed struggle
b) Boycott
c) Passive resistance
d) Non-violent truth force
✅ Answer: d) Non-violent truth force
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Moral force through truth and non-violence.
Which movement focused on Khilafat and Swaraj?
a) Quit India
b) Civil Disobedience
c) Non-Cooperation
d) Swadeshi
✅ Answer: c) Non-Cooperation
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Unified Hindus and Muslims temporarily.
Which movement was called off after violence at Chauri Chaura?
a) Quit India
b) Civil Disobedience
c) Khilafat
d) Non-Cooperation
✅ Answer: d) Non-Cooperation
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Gandhi suspended it to preserve non-violence.
Salt March began from:
a) Sevagram
b) Sabarmati
c) Wardha
d) Bombay
✅ Answer: b) Sabarmati
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Gandhi marched 240 miles to Dandi in 1930.
Which was the first mass nationalist movement under Gandhi?
a) Quit India
b) Champaran
c) Non-Cooperation
d) Kheda
✅ Answer: c) Non-Cooperation
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Unified national protest.
Poona Pact dealt with:
a) Hindu-Muslim unity
b) Electoral rights of Dalits
c) Land revenue
d) Separate electorates for Muslims
✅ Answer: b) Electoral rights of Dalits
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Replaced separate electorates with reserved seats.
The Dandi March was a protest against:
a) Land tax
b) Salt tax
c) Indigo planters
d) Rowlatt Act
✅ Answer: b) Salt tax
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Symbolic defiance of British laws.
When was Gandhi arrested after launching Quit India?
a) 1941
b) August 1942
c) March 1942
d) 1944
✅ Answer: b) August 1942
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Immediate crackdown by British.
Which ideology did Gandhi oppose?
a) Non-violence
b) Materialism
c) Satyagraha
d) Truth
✅ Answer: b) Materialism
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Advocated simple living and rural economy.
Which principle did Gandhi use to fight injustice in South Africa?
a) Boycott
b) Swadeshi
c) Satyagraha
d) Civil disobedience
✅ Answer: c) Satyagraha
👉 (NCERT Class 10) First tested Satyagraha among Indians there.
Where was Gandhi educated in law?
a) Bombay
b) Delhi
c) London
d) Oxford
✅ Answer: c) London
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Studied at Inner Temple, 1888–1891.
Who was Gandhi's political mentor?
a) Tilak
b) Nehru
c) Gokhale
d) Lala Lajpat Rai
✅ Answer: c) Gopal Krishna Gokhale
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Urged Gandhi to understand Indian politics first.
Which work of Gandhi explained his concept of Swaraj?
a) Hind Swaraj
b) Discovery of India
c) India Wins Freedom
d) Harijan
✅ Answer: a) Hind Swaraj
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Criticized Western civilization.
Which movement was Gandhi's last major campaign?
a) Quit India
b) Civil Disobedience
c) Harijan Movement
d) Swadeshi
✅ Answer: a) Quit India
👉 (NCERT Class 10) 1942: “Do or Die” call to end British rule.
Which Ashram was founded by Gandhi near Wardha?
a) Phoenix Farm
b) Tolstoy Farm
c) Sevagram
d) Dandi
✅ Answer: c) Sevagram
👉 (NCERT Class 10) Became his base from 1936.

Predicted MCQs (36–50)

Who accompanied Gandhi on the Dandi March?
a) Nehru
b) Sarojini Naidu
c) Sardar Patel
d) Kasturba
✅ Answer: b) Sarojini Naidu
👉 (Drishti) Led after Gandhi's arrest.
Which method did Gandhi use against foreign cloth?
a) Ban
b) Burning
c) Taxing
d) Prohibition
✅ Answer: b) Burning
👉 (Lucent) As part of Swadeshi movement.
Gandhi referred to untouchables as:
a) Harijan
b) Avarnas
c) Dalit
d) Nishad
✅ Answer: a) Harijan
👉 (Drishti) Meant “Children of God.”
When did Gandhi launch Individual Satyagraha?
a) 1940
b) 1930
c) 1932
d) 1935
✅ Answer: a) 1940
👉 (Lucent) To affirm right to free speech during WW2.
Gandhi participated in which Round Table Conference?
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) All
✅ Answer: b) Second
👉 (Drishti) 1931: Only attended once, as INC representative.
Which Viceroy met Gandhi during Gandhi-Irwin Pact?
a) Linlithgow
b) Irwin
c) Wavell
d) Mountbatten
✅ Answer: b) Irwin
👉 (Lucent) In March 1931 before Second Round Table.
Which ideology influenced Gandhi the most?
a) Marxism
b) Tolstoyan Christianity
c) Fascism
d) Liberalism
✅ Answer: b) Tolstoyan Christianity
👉 (Drishti) Influenced his ideas of non-violence and love.
Gandhi’s concept of Gram Swaraj emphasized:
a) Urbanization
b) Strong Center
c) Village self-rule
d) Industrial economy
✅ Answer: c) Village self-rule
👉 (Drishti) Foundation of his economic philosophy.
Gandhi stayed in which South African city first?
a) Cape Town
b) Pretoria
c) Durban
d) Johannesburg
✅ Answer: c) Durban
👉 (Lucent) Began his legal career there.
Gandhi’s slogan “Back to Village” was meant for:
a) Urban poor
b) Industrialists
c) Bureaucrats
d) Everyone
✅ Answer: d) Everyone
👉 (Drishti) Reconnecting all to rural life.
Gandhi opposed the Simon Commission because:
a) It proposed dominion status
b) It lacked Indian members
c) It was pro-Hindu
d) It divided Bengal
✅ Answer: b) It lacked Indian members
👉 (Lucent) Protested by all major parties.
Which act gave Gandhi complete power to be jailed without trial?
a) Government of India Act 1919
b) Rowlatt Act
c) Indian Councils Act
d) Defence of India Act
✅ Answer: b) Rowlatt Act
👉 (Drishti) Called “Black Act,” opposed by Gandhi.
Gandhi’s Salt March began in which month?
a) January
b) March
c) May
d) August
✅ Answer: b) March
👉 (Lucent) Started on March 12, 1930.
Which event finally forced Gandhi to suspend Civil Disobedience?
a) Simon Commission
b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
c) Chauri Chaura
d) Lahore Resolution
✅ Answer: b) Gandhi-Irwin Pact
👉 (Drishti) Made peace before attending Round Table.
Gandhi's birth anniversary is observed as:
a) National Day
b) Martyrs Day
c) International Day of Non-Violence
d) Republic Day
✅ Answer: c) International Day of Non-Violence
👉 (Lucent) October 2 is recognized by the UN.