Question

In which of his following books did Mahatma Gandhi call British Parliament as sterile and prostitute?
1. Sarvodaya or Universal dawn
2. An Autobiography or the story of my experiments with truth
3. Hind Swaraj
4. The Story of a Satyagrahi

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 3 : Hind Swaraj

The correct answer is Hind Swaraj.

• Mahatma Gandhi wrote Hind Swaraj in 1908 during his return visit to South Africa from India via London by ship.
• Hind Swaraj highlights all of Gandhi's basic principles, including the relationship between ends and means, between rights and duties, and between religious communities, as well as his concepts of history, nationality, dissent, education, and technology.

• Sarvodaya is a term meaning 'Universal Uplift' or 'Progress of All'.
• The term was first coined by Mohandas Gandhi as the title of his 1908 translation of John Ruskin's tract on political economy, "Unto This Last", and Gandhi came to use the term for the ideal of his own political philosophy.
• Gandhi’s idea of Sarvodaya is the prescription to tackle inequalities prevalent in society.
• The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi.
• The book covers his life from early childhood through to 1921. It was written in weekly installments and published in his journal Navjivan from 1925 to 1929.
• Gandhi first conceived satyagraha in 1906 in response to a law discriminating against Asians that was passed by the British colonial government of the Transvaal in South Africa.
• In 1917 the first satyagraha campaign in India was mounted in the indigo-growing district of Champaran.