GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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Why was Mohandas Gandhi was in South Africa?
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defend Indian in South Africa
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to prosecute Indians in South Africa
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To defend South Africans in India
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To prosecute South Africans in India
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Born in India and educated in England, Gandhi traveled to South Africa in early 1893 to practice law under a one-year contract. Settling in Natal, he was subjected to racism and South African laws that restricted the rights of Indian laborers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gandhi saw the war as an opportunity to demonstrate his loyalty to Empire. In doing so, he hoped to give impetus to his pleas and petitions for Indian equality within South African society as British subjects. Gandhi was seeking equality of a special sort: limited integration into white South African society.
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