With reference to the Mahatama Gandhi consider the following statements given below:
1. In the year 1934, Mahatma Gandhi withdrew from all political activities and made a country – wide tour. This tour was known as “Harijan Yatra”.
2. The majority of Indian Capitalist class had supported the Non- Co- operation Movement.
3. A close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, Bacha Khan was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India. Bacha Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar ("Servants of God").
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
1 and 3 only
There were large number of smaller traders and merchants who at various points came out in active support of the national movement. On the other hand, there were several individual capitalists or sections of the class who either remained neutral towards the Congress and the national movement or even actively opposed it.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan nicknamed Bacha Khan ("king of chiefs") or Pacha Khan was a Pashtun independence activist against the rule of the British Raj. He was a political and spiritual leader known for his nonviolent opposition, and a lifelong pacifist and devout Muslim. A close friend of Mohandas Gandhi, Bacha Khan was nicknamed the "Frontier Gandhi" in British India. Bacha Khan founded the Khudai Khidmatgar("Servants of God") movement in 1929, whose success triggered a harsh crackdown by the British Empire against him and his supporters, and they suffered some of the most severe repression of the Indian independence movement.