After returning from South Africa (1914), he became the leader of a movement against the British rule in India. He led several campaigns by which he emphasised that he/India wants a peaceful solution to the serious problems - that is India wants to be independent (hunger strikes, Salt March, civil disobedience campaigns, Quit India campaign). He cooperated with the British before they achieved independence so that it went without war and violence. (India became independent in 1947.) India had to accept partition, but nevertheless it became independent. Extremist Hundus were unsatisfied with him because he wanted equal rights to the Muslims as well. One of the extremists assassinated him in 1948.
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