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the Congress ministries in 1937, which finally led to his leading “The Quit India' movement in 1942.
Throughout that year, Gandhi also focused his attention on rural economic reconstruction. The All India Village Industries Association was established on October 26, 1934. This event was the culmination of Gandhi's rural development program that he had begun a decade prior. The aim of Gandhi's development model, mirrored in the All India Village Industries Association, was that a country like India—where the vast majority of citizens live in villages must start its development process from the bottom-up. The most famous symbol of this approach was the spinning wheel (Charkha), and the most famous product of rural development was home-spun cloth (Khadi). Gandhi was not opposed to industrialization but he wanted industrialization in the form of small scale industries that benefited rural populations first and the rest of the country second. On April 30, 1936, he settled down at Sevagram, a village eleven miles from Wardha and made it his headquarter for all his activities. While there, Gandhi presided over a major educational conference at Wardha and outlined his scheme of education through basic crafts on October 22, 1937.
Gandhi continued to work unsuccessfully to bring Muslims and untouchable communities into the wider mainstream struggle for a unified India. These issues remained unresolved throughout various waves of Indian nationalism until Gandhi's death in 1948.
Quit India Movement August 8, 1942 - August 15th 1947 With World war" in progress, in March 1942, Sir Stafford Cripps, a member of the War Cabinet, was sent by the British Government to settle the matter of dominion state to India. But Gandhi rejected Cripps's proposal out right when he saw it for
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