Mahatma Gandhi was a main figure in India's history as he helped shape the future of the country. Gandhi fought for the independence of India from British rule through a series of civil disobedience campaigns. Ghandi advocated a nonviolence which was called Ahimsa. In 1930 he led a march to the sea, where they evaporated the water to produce salt as a protest to the british salt tax. Ghandi had a vast amount of power in india. Many times he fasted as a form of protest as a revolution could easily break out if he died.
Ghandi had a philosophy of non-violence which he followed strictly. He used it very well and easily to his advantage. Ghandi hoped that Britain would also find violence useless and would leave India. He used fasting many times since the British could not let him die.
Even if Ghandi hadn't taken up this cause India would probably be free from british rule today it may have just taken longerand possibly more violent.
Ghandi was assasinated on January 30, 1948 in New Delhi by a Hindu fanatic who disliked Gandhi's idea that Muslims and Hindus were equal.
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