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Mahatma Gandhi owed his inspiration for civil disobedience and non-payment of taxes to -

A. Thoreau
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. John Ruskin
D. Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Answer» A. Thoreau
Explanation: It was from Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, that Gandhi borrowed the phrase used widely to describe his program. Thoreau himself was influenced by the writings of the forest wise men of India, who wrote the Upanishads. These ancient Hindu writings were translated into English in the early 1800s. Thoreau read and pondered them in the Harvard College library.
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