“Mohandas K. Gandhi tonight summoned India’s millions to rise in a struggle ‘for freedom or death’ after the full committee of the All-India Nationalist Congress approved by an overwhelming vote his call for mass passive resistance against British rule… Although Gandhi ordered his followers into the campaign with the exhortation that death is preferable to British domination, he delayed putting the nationwide mass resistance into action – apparently in the hope of some last-minute British agreement to negotiate.””
