Video: ‘Footage – Gandhi – 1932 September 24’

(Tuesday, September 20, 1932) — Mahatma K. Gandhi, the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement, solemnly began his “fast unto death” today behind the walls of Yerovda jail at Poona, where he’s been held since January.

Gandhi says he will starve himself to death unless the British government’s plan for creating a separate electorate for the depressed classes is discarded.