Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

South Africa was "the making of the Mahatma". Who among the following remarked this about Mahatma Gandhi?

Options:

Surendra Nath Banerjee

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Chandran Devanesan

G. K. Gokhle

Correct Answer:

Chandran Devanesan

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - Chandran Devanesan

In January 1915 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to India from South Africa. The historian Chandran Devanesan has remarked, South Africa was “the making of the Mahatma”. It was in South Africa that Mahatma Gandhi first forged the distinctive techniques of non-violent protest known as satyagraha, first promoted harmony between religions, and first alerted upper-caste Indians to their discriminatory treatment of low castes and women.