After the First World War, Gandhi decided to focus on improving his life in his native India. His thoughts and ideas were well received and he soon had a big healthy group of following his footsteps. The British government didn’t like the campaigning and judged it to be revolutionary. British troops massacred many innocent Indians at a demonstration in 1920. In return Britain caught Gandhi and forced him behind the bars, but he was soon released. Having been imprisoned several more times, Gandhi now knew that he had to act. When imprisoned, he would simply refuse to eat. The British hated this so much, because they knew that if he died while being wrongly imprisoned the effect from the Indian people would be catastrophic.
