Following the passing of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi was appointed head of the religion and he soon set about the formation of the first round of National Spiritual Assemblies in the world in 1923 and India's was in that first wave. In 1930 notable Baháʼí and world traveler Martha Root made an extensive trip through India. The first Baháʼí summer school was able to be held in Simla in 1938 and in 1941 three new local communities with functioning Local Spiritual Assemblies had been established: Hyderabad, Kota and Bangalore. These activities reached a peak with occasional awareness of the social leaders in India like Mahatma Gandhi. Nagindas Master, claimed that Mahatma Gandhi told him many years ago, that the Baháʼí Faith is a solace to mankind. In 1944, Indian Baháʼí community consisted of twenty-nine Local Spiritual Assemblies.