Question

mention any three efforts made by gandhiji for the upliftment of the depressed classes

Answer 1

Gandhiji encouraged cottage industries by initiating the use of charkha.
Gandhiji opened the satyagraha ashram for the dalits.
Gandhiji regarded dalits as harijans i.e. god's own people to uplift their social status.

Answer 2

Gandhi worked a lot for the upliftment of the depressed classes of India :

1. He opposed untouchibility and argued that there is no mention of untouchibity in Shastras.

2. He advocated the inter-caste marriage and accordingly married his adopted untouchable girl Laxmi with a brahmin boy Maruti in 1933.

3. He started the publication of a weekly journal called Harijan in which he discussed the social problems of India. More importantly he called the untouchables as harijans i.e sons of God.