Accomplishments

The Bad and the Good             

I returned to India to see and be with my family and in 1919 I continued fighting discrimination when the British Raj's anti-sedition Rowlatt Act came into play. The Rowlatt Act stated that the colonial Indian government could arrest suspects without a warrant and jail them without a trial, something that I could not standby and allow. I held a hartal, or day of fasting and prayer as a way to protest against the injustice. 

This unfortunately led to a painful and a heartbreaking outcome, as British troops opened fire on an unarmed crowd, murdering 1,499 out of the 5,000 men, women, and children present that day. However, my followers transformed their pain into something much more, as after the Amritsar Massacre, the Indian independence movement was transformed into a national cause and my followers along with myself earned national attention.

I decided to move away from politics, as all it seemed to do was aggravate me more and more, and looked towards writing and improving India. I led more protests, with each earning further awareness and numbers. By 1925 my methods of protest and non-cooperation started to be mimicked around the world. 

 5 years later I wrote and published the Declaration of Independence of India and in 1947, after much protest and violent acts around me, India achieved its independence.