Independence (1916-1945)

- 1915 Gandhi returned from South Africa to live in India

- He get a honorary title “Mahatma” (big soul) because of his merits during the fight

- Till 1920 Gandhi fight with passive resistance and civil disobedience on the top of the Indian National Congress (INC) to become independent from the British colonial rule

- 1922 Gandhi get arrested, but after two years he was discharged because of a appendicitis

- After his release he retire his self from the politics

- His salt march began on the 12.march 1930 when 78 men from the ashram in direction to the sea with thousands of Indians went with him

- At the coast they began with the salt extraction

- This was a delict against the salt monopoly law of the British - Indian empire

→ Mass arrested, Gandhi too

- 1942 Gandhi demanded a immediate independence of India

- Because of that he get arrested in Pune but after two years he was discharged again

- The British prime minister Clement Attlee announced on the 3. June 1947 the independence of India

- But a division of India in a Hindu India and a Moslem India, too

- Gandhi was against this division

- Mahatma Gandhi was shot on the 30.January 1948 on a prayer meeting in New-Delhi