When did Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi return to India after two decades of residing abroad?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → 1915
In January 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to his homeland after two decades of residence abroad, spent mostly in South Africa.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “1. A Leader Announces Himself … In January 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi returned to his homeland after two decades of residence abroad. These years had been spent for the most part in South Africa, where he went as a lawyer, and in time became a leader of the Indian community in that territory. As the historian Chandran Devanesan has remarked, South Africa was ‘the making of the Mahatma’.…” |