Mahatma Among the Revolutionaries: Disturbed India of the 1920s

"2000 INDIANS SHOT DOWN," splashed the headline of the Daily Express on December 13, 1919.

The decade of the 1920s, which followed that massacre, was a disturbed one, as Indian revolutionaries sought to achieve freedom using violence. These individuals had lost faith in the fairness of the British system. They hoped that their actions would create a vacuum allowing for a new organizational power to move in.

Mohandas Gandhi returned to India in 1915. He had his unique beliefs that he had fine...