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2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A new book titled “150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma the South African Legacy” was launched in Johannesburg, South Africa. Who is the author of the book?
A
Louis Fischer
B
Fakir Hassen
C
Subhadra Sen Gupta
D
Judith M Brown
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -A new book titled 150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma the South Africa Legacy launched by Fakir Haasan in Johannesburg, South Africa.. The book was launched to celebrate 150 anniversary of Mahtama Gandhi and the purpose of book to commemorate of Mahtama Gandhi’s activities,and role to his brith to death.

Detailed explanation-2: -’150 Years of Celebrating the Mahatma the South African Legacy’, by author and journalist Fakir Hassen, is a 160-page coffee table that records how commemorations of Gandhi’s activities, including his birth and death anniversaries, were confined to the local Indian community only.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in 1908 during his return visit to South Africa from India via London by ship.

Detailed explanation-4: -Polak saw him off at the Johannesburg station and lent him for his twenty-four hour train journey, John Ruskin’s book Unto This Last.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gandhi first read the subversive masterwork of political economy by John Ruskin in 1904, during a train trip in South Africa where he was living at the time.

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