In India : 1915-48

In India : 1915-48
1915	Arrived in Bombay (India) on 9 Jan, Foundation of Satyagraha Ashrama at Kocharab Near Ahmadabad (20 May); In 1917. Ashrama shifted at the banks of Sabarmati; All India tour.
1916	Abstain from active politics (though he attended Lucknow session of INC held in 26-30 Dec., 1916, where Raj Kumar Shukla, cultivation from Bihar, requested him to come to Champaran).
1917	Gandhi entered active politics with Champaran campaign to redress grievances of the cultivations oppressed by Indigo planters of Bihar (April 1917). Champaran Satyagraha was his first Civil Disobedience Movement in India.
1918	In Feb. 1918, Gandhi launched the struggle in Ahmadabad which involved industrial workers. Hunger strike as a weapon was used for the first time by Gandhi during Ahmadabad struggle. In March 1918, Gandhi worked for peasants of Khwda in Gujarat who were facing difficulties in paying the rent owing to failure of crops. Kheda Satyagraha was his first Non- Cooperation Movement.
1919	Gandhi gave a call for Satyagraha against the Rowlatt Act on April 6, 1919 and took the command of the nationalist movement for the first time. (First all-India Political Movement). Gandhi returns Kaisar-i-Hind gold medal as a protest against Jallianwala Bagh massacre April 13, 1919; The All India Khilafat Conference elected Gandhi as its president (Nov. 1919 Delhi).
1920-22	Gandhi leads the Non- Cooperation and Khilafat Movement (Aug 1, 1920- Feb, 1922), Gandhi calls off Movement (Feb. 12, 1922. Non –Cooperation Movement was the First mass based politics under Gandhi.
1924	Belgaum (Karnataka) Session of INC – for the first and the last time Gandhi was elected the president of the congress.
1925-27	Gandhi retires from active politics for the first time and devotes himself to ‘constructive programme’ of the Congress; Gandhi resumes active politics in 1927.
1930-34	Gandhi launches the Civil Disobedience Movement with his Dandi march/ Salt Satyagraha (first Phase: March 12, 1930- March 5, 1931; Gandhi-Irwin Pact :  March 5, 1931; Gandhi attends the Second Round Table Conference in London as sole representative of the Congress: Sep. 7- Dec 1, 1931; Second Phase: Jan, 1932_ April 17, 1934)
1934-39	Gandhi retires from active politics, sets up Sevagram (Vardha Ashram).
1939	Gandhi resumes active politics.
1940-41	Gandhi launches Individual Satyagraha Movement.
1942	Call to Quit India Movement for which Gandhi raised the slogan, ‘Do or Die’ (We shall either free India or die in the attempt), Gandhi and all Congress leaders arrested (Agu. 1942).
1942-44	Gandhi kept in detention at the Age Khan Palace, near Pune (Aug. 9, 1942- May, 1944), Gandhi lost wife Kasturba (Feb. 22, 1944) and private secretary Mahadev Desai; this was Gandhi’s travelled to Noakhali (east Bengal- now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore communal peace.
1945	Gandhi’s influence on the congress wanes perceptively after 1945.
1946	Deeply distressed by the orgy  of communal violence, as  result Muslim League’s Direct action call, Gandhi travelled to Noakhali (East Bengal- now Bangladesh) and later on to Calcutta to restore communal peace.
1947	Gandhi, deeply distressed by the Mountbatten Plan/ Partition Plan (June 3, 1947), while staying in Calcutta to restore communal violence , observes complete silence on the dawn of India’s Independence (Aug. 15 , 1947), Gandhi returns to Delhi (sep.1947)
1948	Gandhi was shot dead by Nathu Ram Godse, a member of RSS, while on his way to the evening prayer meeting at Birla House, New Delhi (Jan 30, 1948). He died, with ‘Hey Ram’ on his lips.