Mohandas Gandhi

When Mohandas Gandhi returned to India from South Africa, he saw the British ruling India. The British brought some benefits to India but many costs to the Indian people, such as economic. When the British persuaded farmers to switch from growing crops to growing cotton, there was not enough food for the country and millions of people died from lack of food. The increasing taxes and lack of food made many Indians suffer on account of the British.

Because of the poor living conditions and prejudice, Mohandas Gandhi started a nonviolent resistance movement in India. This was opposing the British in a nonviolent way. The Indians would not cooperate, not do their work, and defy the British. The purpose of this movement was to give India its independence. At first, it didn't work out. The first nonviolent movements were a setback and ended in killing and violence. This was not what Gandhi wanted. He figured that the only way for people to stop fighting and rioting would be if he went on a hunger strike. Eventually, the hunger strike worked. When all the Indians were not cooperating with the British, Gandhi stopped