became the most important political figure in India. When World War II broke out, Gandhi demanded a declaration of war aims and their application to India. The unsatisfactory answer from the British lost India's support to Britain in the war unless they were granted independence. The British refused offering compromises that were refused and when Japan entered the war Gandhi still refused to agree to Indian participation. He was interned in 1942 but released two years later because of failing health. Tired of the relentless Indians the struggle for independence reached its final stages in 1944. With the agreement to resolve issues between the Muslim league and the Congress party of India the long battle for independence was won. The British finally granted India its independence in 1947 in doing so split India and Pakistan into separate states. Gandhi's death was regarded as an international catastrophe. He developed a place not just in India's history but world history with his accomplishments. Successful basically because he and India refused to quit and would not just roll over to the Britain any longer. Gandhi's efforts came to inspire nonviolent movements elsewhere, notably in the U.S. under the civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and in Africa under Nelson Mandela....
