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Knowing Gandhi Joint Webinar of A, B & D Zones
Knowing Gandhi Joint Webinar of A, B & D Zones
and D
(Under the aegis of DAV CAE, DAV CMC, New Delhi)
Webinar on
Capacity Building Programme on June , 2021 for
Teachers Teaching Social Science (Classes XI & XII)
◦ His first major public appearance was at the opening of the Banaras
Hindu University in February in 1916.
Brief Political life of
Gandhiji
1. Born on 2nd october 1969.
2. Gandhiji went to South Africa in 1893.
3. Gandhiji returned to India in 1915.
4. Political- Mentor- Gopal Krishna Gokhle.
5. Regional Satyagraha-
a) Champaran Satyagraha- 1917
b) Ahmedabad Satyagraha- 1918
c) Kheda Satyagaraha- 1918
6. First Mass Movement- Non Co-operation
Movement- 1920- 22
7. Reconstruction Programme- 1923- 28
8. Civil Disobedience Movement- 1930
9. Quit India Movement- 1942
◦ Gandhiji launched Three Mass Movements against the British which
ultimately brought Independence of our country in 1947.
scripts Nehru edited a collection of letters written to him during the National
Movement and published a bunch of old letters.
FRAMING A PICTURE
Autobiographies and Biographies are also very important source to know Gandhi.
1. My experiments with truth- an autobiography written by Gandhi himself gives us a
lot of information of Gandhiji.
2. Biographies on Gandhiji were written by- D.G. Tendulkar, Louis Fischer
Through Police and Officers eyes
A. C.N. Broomfield- The Judge who presided B. Lord Willingdon, the viceroy wrote on Gandhi
over trial of Gandhiji after Non- Co-operation after his revival of civil disobedience movement "It
Movement wrote "It would be impossible to is a beautiful world if it was not for Gandhi........ At
ignore the fact the you are in a different the bottom of every move he makes which he always
category from any other person, I have ever says is inspired by God. I see the American is ….
tried or am likely to try ….......... six years But the fact is that we live in the midst of vey
imprisonment ….... but if released no one will unpractical, mystical and superstitious folk who look
be better pleased than I." upon Gandhi as something holy."
1. Why did Mahatma Gandhi wanted to reach at Dandi? 3. Choose the correct option
a. beacause he wanted to break the salt law. Assertion(A) Mahatma Gandhi said that there was a rumor that I might be arrested.
b. because he wanted to organise a satyagraha there. Reason(R) he also said that I have reached dandy is no small measure due to the
c. Because he was forced to go there by British. power of peace and nonviolence which is universally felt.
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d. because he wanted to give the speech there.
• Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
2. What is the meaning of 'Dandi March' led by Mahatma • Both A and R are true, but R is not the correct explanation of A
Gandhi? • A is true but R is false
a. a violent movement against British • A is false but R is true
b. an act of non-violence civil disobedience in colonial 4. Consider the following statements
India I. Mahatma Gandhi said Satyagraha is of Dndi March are army of peace.
c. peasant movement II. Gandhiji called civilised man those who feels ashamed to do anything which his
d. all of the above neighbours would disapprove.
Choose the correct option:
a. Both I and II b. Only I c. Only II d. None of these