Question

Gandhiji was born on__________________ 1869 .
A] 2nd October
B] 15th August
C] 9th August
D] 30th January

Answer 1

Hint: Mohandas K Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi is known as the father of India. He was one of the pioneers who fought their way through to give India its freedom from the British. He was a lawyer by profession who mainly practiced in South Africa and through multiple encounters with tainted social issues, he decided to convert into a noble man, abandoned all the possessions in life and came back to India in order to fight peacefully against the unfair treatments of Britishers over Indians.

Complete answer: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 in the city of Porbandar under the Bombay Presidency in British India which is part of Gujarat. His parents were Karamchand Gandhi (father) and Putlibai Gandhi (mother). His father was a well-known political figure in Porbandar. Gandhi finished his law degree at the Inner Temple, London, and started a career in the bar. After failing to establish a career in law in India for two years, he decided to move to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He stayed there for 21 years and established himself as a successful lawyer.
He started representing civil rights in Africa and eventually came to participate in politics full-time. He joined Indian national congress and became a voice for farmers, and urban labourers to protest against excessive land-tax and discrimination. He adapted khadi dhoti as his attire and promoted swaraj. Since the swaraj movement, Gandhi became the face of freedom movements. His influence on India stayed relevant even after the day of his death.

Hence, the solution is option A.

Note: The day on which Gandhi was born is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanthi. Indian government also decided to celebrate swachata divas’ on that day because he was a person who was keen on cleanliness. The British continued to see him at best as a utopian visionary, except for a tiny minority of Christian missionaries and militant socialists, and at worst as a sly hypocrite whose professions of fellowship with the British race were a front for the British Raj's subversion.