2015 · Q39
Where and when did Mahatma Gandhi first use his method of hunger-strike to achieve a desired goal?
history-of-indiagandhian-movements
- AAt Natal in South Africa in the year 1906
- BAt Champaran in the year 1917
- CAt Ahmedabad in the year 1918
- DAt Cape Town in South Africa in the year 1906
Explanation
Mahatma Gandhi first used the hunger strike as a political weapon in India during the Ahmedabad textile mill workers' strike in March 1918, fasting to press the mill owners to accept the workers' demands. His earlier South African campaigns used satyagraha but not the hunger strike in this form, and Champaran (1917) did not involve a fast. Hence he first used it at Ahmedabad in 1918.