Question

In which among the following years, Sabarmati Ashram was established by Mahatma Gandhi?

• A. 1910
• B. 1912
• C. 1915
• D. 1917

Answer 1

Answer:

D. 1917

Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Gandhiji’s India ashram was originally established at the Kocharab Bungalow of Jivanlal Desai, a barrister and friend of Gandhi, on 25 May 1915. At that time the ashram was called the Satyagraha Ashram. But Gandhi wanted to carry out various activities such as farming and animal husbandry, in addition to other pursuits which called for the need of a much larger area of usable land. So two years later, on 17 June 1917, the ashram was relocated to an area of thirty-six acres on the banks of the river Sabarmati, and it came to be known as the Sabarmati Ashram.