UPSC CDS GS History Questions Part 1

“A sound body means one which bends itself to the spirit and is always a ready instrument at its service.” The above statement is attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi returned to India (from South Africa) in January 1915. In April of the same year, he wrote a letter to a Tamil colleague in South Africa, explaining why (in his view) sport was not, for him, an ideal form of physical exercise. "To me," remarked Gandhi, "a sound body means one which bends itself to the spirit and is always a ready instrument in its service. Such bodies are not made, in my opinion, on the football field. They are made on cornfields and farms. I would urge you to think this over and you will find innumerable illustrations to prove my statement……..”