Gandhi

For instance, all economic matters were controlled by the Europeans who profited off Indian resources while the workers lived in extreme poverty and barely had enough to survive. The English regarded them as passive, illiterate and underdeveloped (Clement 17). Socially the British had no interaction with the local people, who were not allowed to enter a while man's house nor gain admittance to any clubs the Europeans belonged to. In turn, the British had full power and were only concerned with their own gains while the locals suffered. Eventually, there would come a change to all this and it is attributed to Gandhi and his philosophical ideas and beliefs concerning society as a whole. Gandhi dedicated his life to win India's independence from the British rule by improving economic conditions, staging Satyagraha campaigns to protest against unjust living conditions imposed by the British and attempting to unite all Indians.
             When Gandhi returned to India after a twenty-one year absence, he was faced with the undeniable poverty of the Indian people, due to the fact that they were being exploited by the British (Clement 21). Accordingly, Mohandas came to the conclusion that only once Indian villages become " self sufficient units rather than the exploited source of wealth", India would head into the direction of independence (Richards 121). That is to say, once India becomes able to rely on itself and stabilizes its economy, it would have the power to revolt against the oppressive economic policies of the British. Therefore, the nation would slowly break away from British control. One of Gandhi's initial actions involved the Chaparam indigo growers. In the year 1916, after taking part in the annual session of the Indian National Congress, Gandhi was approached by a peasant who informed him of the ongoing exploitation of the Bihar indigo growers by their British landlords and asked for assistance.