Mahatma Gandhi's final seventeen years, from 1931 to his murder in 1948, frame this account of the British Empire's unraveling in India. The film tracks the negotiations and betrayals that followed the Second World War, as exhaustion and debt forced London toward withdrawal, and as Congress and the Muslim League split over what would become Pakistan. Historians walk through the violence of Partition, the migrations that uprooted millions, and the political maneuvering that pushed Gandhi, the man credited with the independence movement, to the margins of the new state he helped create. Archival photographs and newsreel footage cover his fasts, his ashram routines, and the private habits that made him a difficult figure even to his allies. The film closes on his assassination by a Hindu nationalist and the stunned public reaction across a country already reeling from religious bloodshed. Produced for History Hit, it favors testimony and documentary footage over dramatization, tracing how a nonviolent leader's death landed in the middle of a violent birth.