Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Mahatma Gandhi and the Nationalist movement

Question:

After being released from jail in February 1924, Mahatma Gandhi paid attention to promote what?

Options:

Home-spun cloth (khadi).

Abolition of untouchability.

Both Options, 1 and 2.

None of the above

Correct Answer:

Both Options, 1 and 2.

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 3 - Both Options, 1 and 2.

Option 1- Home-spun cloth (khadi).
Option 2- Abolition of untouchability.

Mahatma Gandhi was released from prison in February 1924, and now chose to devote his attention to the promotion of home-spun cloth (khadi), and the abolition of untouchability. For, Gandhiji was as much a social reformer as he was a politician. He believed that in order to be worthy of freedom, Indians had to get rid of social evils such as child marriage and untouchability. Indians of one faith had also to cultivate a genuine tolerance for Indians of another – hence his emphasis on Hindu-Muslim harmony. Meanwhile, on the economic front Indians had to learn to become self-reliant – hence his stress on the significance of wearing khadi rather than mill-made cloth imported from overseas.