ICSE-X-History
08: Mahatma Gandhi and the National Movement
- #1Describe civil rights movement lanuched by Gandhiji in South Africa?Ans : (i) From 1893 to 1914, Gandhiji practiced Law in South Africa.
(ii) Gandhi faced racial discrimination directed at Indians.
(iii) He founded the Natal Indian Congress in 1894 and suffered imprisonment.
(iv) In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated an Asiatic law compelling registration of the colony's Indian population.
(v) Gandhi adopted his methodology of satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent protest.
(vi) In 1914, the authorities had to abolish three pound poll tax which Indians had to pay. Two cities i.e., Transvaal and Natal were opened to all Indians who wanted to settle there as free workers.