Mahatma Gandhi
-Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the India Congress Party, which fought for the independence of India in the years after the First World War. He was a religious leader, and his religious insights informed greatly his style of protest, and also the objectives he thought were important, which were, in addition to the independence of India, the peaceful coexistence of Muslims and Hindus in India. Gandhi is remembered not only as a strong catalyst for the positive political change in India, but also as a man who successfully made the connection between religious and intellectual activity and the problems that face millions of people everyday, creating a philosophy that was known as Satyagraha (Which means "Truth force," or "The insistence on truth"), which provided him a consistent basis upon which we would act politically. Although securing independence for India, Gandhi was unsuccessful in saving India from being partitioned into Muslim - Hindu areas. He was assassinated by a fellow Hindu in 1947.