In 1924, he was forced to make an end to the campaign of non-cooperation due to increase of violence from India towards Britain. But instead, the opposite of what he preached was starting to take place. Five years later he began another campaign against the payment of tax, and many of his followers joined him on a march. Gandhi led a two hundred mile march to the ocean to collect salt water and later turn it into salt. This march later became called as the Salt March. The Mahatma’s political and spiritual hold on India was so great that the British authorities dared not to interfere with him. But nevertheless in 1934, he resigned from politics and got replaced as leader of the Congress party by a man named Jawaharlal Nehru. Now Gandhi decided to take a break and travel around India to teach Ahimsa. (Ahimsa simply means non-violence.) In 1942 england had promised to give India its independence as soon as the World War II ended and if all the Indians supported in the war efforts. Gandhi was unhappy with this so he organized his last satyagraha called the “Quit India” campaign. He was arrested and put in jail until 1944. In 1947, India finally got their wishful independence, something that Gandhi had worked towards for a long time. But he was still against partition between the religions and they could live peacefully side-by-side one day.
