The period 1931-34 marked a most important crossroad both in Gandhi's own life as well as in the annals of the Indian national movement. Coming shortly after the high-water mark of mass participation attained by the Salt Satyagraha, his year-long campaign against untouchability (1933-34) was not only perhaps the most intensely and passionately carried out of all his campaigns, but one which also provided the occasion for Gandhi to work out his wider economic and ...
