After WWII, Gandhi agreed to attend a meeting called the Round Table Conference, in which Gandhi and other Indian delegates would gather with the King of England, as well as the Prime Minister, and lords of England. They would draw up laws that would set the future standards of the Indian nations, this would be called the India Act, which is similar to the Constitution Act of Canada. They came to an agreement to it and would insure the freedom of India, after much suffering in India towards both Hindus and Muslims.
Yet the Muslims and Hindus don't quite get along all that well. After the India Act, Mohammed Jinnah, the Pakistani counter part of Gandhi would demand an independent state for the Moslem people it the nort of India and three other provincial territories of Iran and Afghanistan.
The Indians territories would be scene for violent confrontations between Muslims and Hindus..
On August 14th 1947, India is declared and independent sovereign state along with 6 other nations including what would be considered its rival, Pakistan. Gandhi vision of a free India has finally come true. Sadly the year after Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was assassinated by a radical Hindu, enemy of Gandhi's more moderate movent. He was shot dead at a public walk in New Delhi, India...
Gandhi as stubborn as he was, manipulative, and even abusive to his wife, he was with no doubt one of the great figures of the 20th century, who brought freedom to the people of India, and indirectly aided his neighbouring nations to stride for independence.
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