WORLD HISTORY

COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
After his own law firm in Bombay was unsuccessful, where did Gandhi move to?
A
South Africa
B
Australia
C
London
D
Egypt
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Gandhi went to South Africa in April 1893 and stayed for a whole year in Pretoria in connection with the case of Sheth Dada Abdulla who was involved in a civil suit with his near relative Sheth Tyeb Haji Khan Mahammad. The year’s stay in Pretoria changed Gandhi’s life.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Pretoria. Gandhiji was traveling to Pretoria is a place in South Africa on June 7, 1893 night.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrived in South Africa 24 May 1893 to attend to a legal matter of Dada Abdullah Jhaveri.

Detailed explanation-4: -After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit.

Detailed explanation-5: -Phoenix Farm is considered as the birthplace of Satyagraha. However, it was at the Tolstoy Farm, Gandhi’s second camp in South Africa, where Satyagraha was molded into a weapon of protest.

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