Question

In 1918, Mahatma Gandhi organized a Satyagraha in Ahmedabad to support the ________
A)Construction labourers
B)Cotton mill workers
C)Peasants
D)Students

Answer 1

Hint: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, was an anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed many non-violent resistance campaigns against the British in India which truly inspired the political movements to achieve social and political progress all round the world.

Complete answer: The Satyagraha in the Ahmedabad of Gujarat was a major revolt in the Indian Independence movement. It was organized by Mahatma Gandhi and was the second Satyagraha movement after the Champaran Satyagraha aimed to support the cotton mill workers. Prices had gone up and the mill workers were demanding higher wages in Ahmedabad. They had pledged full support to Gandhi in his Satyagraha and paraded the streets with banners, demanding a settlement to be reached. The strikers were impatient because they faced starvation and many workers went back to work. To bring unity and coordination among the workers, Gandhi announced to Fast till a settlement was reached. However, the fast lasted for three days as it influenced the mill owners and an agreement between mill owners and workers were finalized.

Options A, C and D can be easily eliminated as Option B ‘Mill workers’ is the correct answer.

Note: Soon after the mill workers strike, Mahatma Gandhi plunged into the Kheda Satyagraha for peasants, owing to famines and crop failures the peasants could not pay high taxes and through Satyagraha they demanded the annual tax collection to be scrapped this year.