Programme 4: Gandhi: Great Soul

Learning Outcomes

Children should know:

• Who Gandhi was
• Why he is remembered
• Why he wanted independence for India
• How he gained it
• What the British Empire was
• What resources Britain gained from the Empire
• Hindu beliefs, as taught to and by Gandhi
• That Indian students travelled to the UK to study
• The differences and difficulties experienced by Gandhi in the UK
• Examples of racism and prejudice experienced by Gandhi
• The experiences of Indians in India under the Empire
• What Gandhi meant by peaceful protest and how it achieved change
• The types of traditional clothes worn by Indians
• How clothes were made by spinning cotton
• That a form of protest started to gain independence for India
• That India became an independent country
• Types of historical evidence