50 Frequently asked questions About GANDHIJI
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50 Frequently asked questions About GANDHI you can answer these Important questions about Mahatma Gandhi, you will surely get 1 mark in IBPS , UPSC, Bank clerk like exams. So Start to learn from Gandhi
Gandhiji’s visit to different states
Q. When did Gandhiji visit Kerala for the first time?
Answer: 1920
Q. In which year Mahatma Gandhi visited TamilNadu(Madras) for the first time ?
Answer:1896
Q. When did Gandhi visit Karnataka for the first time?
Answer: 1915
1. When did Gandhiji born?
Answer: in 1869 October 2
2. When did Gandhiji went to South Africa to practice law?
Answer: in 1893
3. Where did Gandhiji‘s first Satyagraha experimented?
Answer: South Africa in 1906, September to protest against the Asiatic Ordinance issued against the Indians in Transval
4. When was Gandhiji‘s first imprisonment?
Answer: 1908 at Johannesberg in South Africa
5. In which railway station where Gandhiji was humiliated and ousted ?
Answer: Peter Marits Burg Railway Station in SouthAfrica
6. When did Gandhiji started Tolstoy Farm (SouthAfrica)?
Answer: in 1910
7. Where did Gandhiji started the Phoenix Settlement ?
Answer: Durban in South Africa
8. What is the name of weakly started by Gandhiji in SouthAfrica?
Answer: Indian opinion (1904)
9. When did Gandhiji returned to India from South Africa ?
Answer: 9th January 1915.
January 9 is observed as Pravasi Bharatiya Divas
10. Where was Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India?
Answer: It was for the right of Indigo workers in Champaran in 1917
11. Where was gandhiji’s first fast (Gandhiji’s second satyagraha in India)?
Answer: In Ahmadabad
12. Which causes Gandhiji to abandoned his title Kaiser-I-Hind?
Answer: Jallianwalabagh Massacre (1919)
13. Who started weeklies named Young India and Navjeevan?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
14. Which is the only Congress session presided over by Gandhiji?
Answer: Congress session at Belgaum in 1924
15. Who started All India Harijan Samaj in 1932?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
16. Where is Wardha Ashram situated?
Answer: In Maharashtra
17. When did Gandhiji started the weekly Harijan?
Answer: 1933
18. Gandhiji called Subhash Chandra Bose as _________?
Answer: Patriot
19. Who called Gandhiji as “Half naked Seditious Fakir”?
Answer: Winston Churchill
20. Who gave the name ‘Gurudev’ to Tagore?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
21. Who called Gandhiji as ‘Mahatma’?
Answer: Tagore
22. Who is political guru of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Gopal Krishna Gokhale
23. Who is considered as spiritual guru of Gandhiji?
Answer: Leo Tolstoy
24. When did Gandhiji assassinated?
Answer: 1948 January 30 by Nadhuram Vinayak Godse
25. What was called as ‘Post Dated Cheque‘ by Gandhiji ?
Answer: Cripps’s Mission (1942)
26. When did Gandhiji published ‘Hind Swaraj‘ ?
Answer: In the year 1908
27. who gave Baba Amta the title ‘Abhay Sadak‘ ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
28. The period which is considered as ‘Gandhian Era‘ in Indian Independence struggle ?
Answer: 1915 – 1948
29. Where was Gandhiji’s third satyagraha in India?
Answer: kheda satyagraha
30. What is the real name of Gandhi’s Autobiography ?
Answer: Satya na prayogo
31. What is the period that referred in Gandhi’s Autobiography ?
Answer: 1869 – 1921
32. When did Autobiography of Gandhiji first published ?
Answer: 1927 (in Navajeevan)
33. In which language Gandhiji wrote his Autobiography ?
Answer: Gujarati
34. Who translated Gandhi’s autobiography into English ?
Answer: Mahadev Desai
35. Who founded Satyagrah Sabha ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
36. Who was the secretary of Mahatma Gandhi after the demise of Mahadev Desai ?
Answer: Pyarelal
37. What is the real name of Mira Behn, the disciple of Gandhiji ?
Answer: Madeleine Slade
38. Who compared Gandhi’s Dandi March to the legendary journey of Sri Rama to Lanka ?
Answer: Motilal Nehru
* Persons having nick name as Gandhi
39. Who is known as Frontier Gandhi ?
Answer: Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
40. Who is known as Bihar Gandhi ?
Answer: Dr. Rajendra Prasad
41. Who is known as Modern Gandhi ?
Answer: Baba Amte
42. Who is known as Sri Lankan Gandhi ?
Answer: A.T. Ariyaratne
43. Who is known as American Gandhi ?
Answer: Martin Luther King
44. Who is known as Burmese Gandhi ?
Answer: General Aung San
45. Who is known as African Gandhi ?
Answer: Kenneth Kaunda
46. Who is known as South African Gandhi ?
Answer: Nelson Mandela
47. Who is known as Kenya Gandhi ?
Answer: Jomo Kenyatta
48. Who is known as Indonesian Gandhi ?
Answer: Ahmed Sukarno
Some of the Books about Gandhi.
49. Who wrote the book “The words of Gandhi” ?
Answer: Mahatma Gandhi
Frequently asked Questions About Books written by Gandhiji –
- “The Essential Gandhi” ,
- “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi” ,
- “The Penguin Gandhi reader”,
- “Gandhi on Islam”,
- “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”,
- “The book of Gandhi wisdom”,
- “Hind swaraj and other writings”,
- “The Way to God”,
- “For Pacifists”
50. Who is the write of “Gandhi on Non-Violence” ?
Answer: Thomas Merton
51. “The Life Of Mahatma Gandhi” is written by?
Answer:Louis Fischer
52. who is the author of “Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his Struggle with India”
Answer: Joseph Lelyveld
Frequently asked Questions About
Miscellaneous Questions about Gandhiji
*53. Which Round table Conference was attended by gandhiji?
Answer: Second
*54. second round table conference was held at which year?
Answer: 1931
*55. Which is the gandhiji’s first political agitation in india ?
Answer: Champaran Satyagraha