30 January: 75th Marty's Day (Mahatma Gandhi)

❇️ 30 January, 2023

🕊 Martyr's Day - शहीद दिवस (75th)
🌷 23 March also observed as Shaheed Diwas

💠MAHATMA GANDHI
Birth - 2 October 1869, Porbandar
Full Name - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Assassinated - 30 January 1948, New Delhi
Spouse - Kasturba Gandhi (1883–1944)

💠 To honour the martyr's of the Nation, several other days at the National level also declared as Sarvodaya or Shaheed Diwas

🔶 January 30, 1948, 'Father of Nation' Mahatma Gandhi was murdered by Nathuram Godse in the Birla House.

🔶Since,1948 GOI celebrates as Shaheed diwas

🟢 NEWS
🔶S. Jaishankar Unveils Bust Of Mahatma Gandhi In Paraguay

🔷Mahatma Gandhi Setu is also called Gandhi Setu or Ganga Setu on Ganga River in Bihar, India.

🔶‘Mahatma Gandhi Green Triangle’ Unveiled In Madagascar

🔷Giriraj Singh Launches Ombudsperson App For Mahatma Gandhi NREGA

🔶'Gandhi before India' by Ramachandra Guha

🟢 Important Books written by Mahatma Gandhi 
▪️The Story of My Experiments with Truth
▪️Inspirational Thoughts
▪️Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

▪️The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi

▪️Gandhi on Non-Violence

▪️What is Hinduism?

🟢 Recent Exams Question Conducted by TCS 
Who is the inspiration behind Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana?:- Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi presided over the Indian National Congress session at ______. :- Belgaum

In which state is the Gandhi Sagar Dam constructed? :- Madhya Pradesh

When was Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti (GSDS) formed? :- Sept, 1984

Who represented the Congress in the second-round table conference held in London? :- Mahatma Gandhi

Which freedom fighters of India is known as “Frontier Gandhi”? :- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

How many demands did Mahatma Gandhi make in his letter to Lord Irwin some of which were agreed to and came to be known as Gandhi-Irwin Pact? :- 11

Who led the Non-cooperation Movement in 1920-22? :- Mahatma Gandhi

What was the main reason for calling off the Non-Cooperation Movement by Gandhiji in 1922?:- A police station at Chauri Chaura in Uttar Pradesh was set on fire by a mob

Who said the following when laying the foundation stone ceremony of Banaras Hindu University, “There is no salvation for India unless you strip yourself of this jewellery and hold it in trust for your country men in India.” :- Mahatma Gandhi

Whom did Mahatma Gandhi consider his mentor in politics? :- Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Which committee was appointed in November 1944 by the Standing Committee of the Non-Party Conference to ‘examine the communal question ina judicial framework following the breakdown of the Gandhi-Jinnah talks on communal problems? :- Sapru Committee

The ‘Poona Pact’ agreement of 1932 was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and which leader? :- BR Ambedkar

 ______ was stated in the ‘Gandhi-Irwin Pact’ signed in March 1931? :- The Civil Disobedience Movement would be called off.

As a social reformer. Gandhiji believed that Indians had to get rid of social evils. Which of the following is NOT a social evil? 1) Child marriage 2) Untouchability 3) Illiteracy 4) Inflation :- Inflation

Gandhiji’s campaign against the ______ was in response to the British censorship of the press and detention without trial. :- Rowlatt Act

Who has written Bahuroopi Gandhi? :- Anu Bandyopadhyaya

Mahatma Gandhi’s first major public appearance in India after returning from South Africa was at the opening of the ______ in February 1916.:- Banaras Hindu University

In 1915, Mahatma Gandhi returned to India permanently from ______. :- South Africa

Name the major revolt inspired by Mahatma Gandhi against the forced  cultivation of Indigo. :- Champaran Satyagraha

Which famous person identified with the slogan- ‘Do or Die’? :- Mahatma Gandhi

In which city is the headquarters of Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts located? :- New Delhi

Which newspaper did Mahatma Gandhi start in South Africa? Indian Opinion

Name the book written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1909 that suggested the British rule would come to an end if Indians didn’t cooperate with them. :- Hind Swaraj

Who has initially drafted the ‘Quit India’ resolution of the Indian National congress in 1942? :- Mahatma Gandhi

The person who was instrumental in bringing Mahatma Gandhi to Champaran in 1917 was: :- Raj Kumar Shukla

The Salt March was launched by Mahatma Gandhi in the year: :- 1930

Which of the following schemes was launched in year 2006?  :- Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Which of the following ‘ashrams’ was NOT established by Mahatma Gandhi? 1) Paunar 2) Sabarmati 3) Sevagram 4) Tolstoy Farm :- Paunar

Where was Mahatma Gandhi on the day India got Independence? :- Calcutta

In which year did Mahatma Gandhi organise a satyagrah to support the peasants of the Kheda district? :- 1918

Who described Mahatma Gandhi as “the greatest soul in beggar’s garb”? :- Rabindranath Tagore

At which station of South Africa was Gandhiji thrown out of a train after refusing to leave the first-class compartment? :- Pietermaritzburg

The Gandhi Peace Prize awards for social, economic and political transformation

through non-violence were instituted in the year: :- 1995

Dandi March, the non-violent protest organised by Mahatma Gandhi against the British salt monopoly, culminated on: :- 6th April 1930

Who said the following words “Indian nationalism is an elite phenomenon a creation of lawyers and doctors and landlords”. :- Mahatma Gandhi

Which honour did Gandhiji return in protest of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre? :- Kaiser-i-Hind

Which of following movements was NOT led by Mahatma Gandhi? 1) Bardoli

Satyagraha, 1928 2) Kheda Satyagraha 1918 3) Quit India Movement (1942) 4) Passive resistance campaigns, 1906 :- Bardoli Satyagraha, 1928

Which Indian lady went to the 2nd Round Table Conference with Gandhiji?:- Sarojini Naidu

Who was the Viceroy of India when Gandhiji led the Dandi march? :- Lord Irwin

Who gave M.K. Gandhi a title of Mahatma?:- Rabindranath Tagore

Arrange the following events in their chronological order.

A. Jallianwala Bagh massacre 

B. Non Cooperation Movement and Khilafat Movement 

C. Gandhi-Irwin Pact 

D. Quit India Movement 

E. Champaran Movement 

1) A, B, C, D, E     2) E, A, C, D, B     3) E, A, B, C, D     4) E, B, A, C, D 

:- E, A, B, C, D