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June 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM
*🛡️Indian Home Rule Movement*
♟️Factors that Contributed to the establishment of Home Rule League:
♟️This was the high-time of the First World War.
💎Unification of extremists and moderates
♟️Unification of INC and Muslim League.
♟️Tilak’s movement was confined to Maharashtra and Karnataka. And Annie Besant
movement spread to other parts of India.
♟️The Home Rule league was ‘self-government’ based on the Irish model.
♟️Initiate political reforms by pressurizing Government and mobilizing people’s opinion.
Note: demand was not Total Independence
AAnnie Besant tried to mobilize participation through the publication of her two newspapers:
a) New India
b) Commonweal However,
Tilak continued writing in ‘Kesari’, ‘Mahratta’, and Young India to spread the message of the Home Rule League.
*💎The decline of Home Rule League*
♟️In 1918, the Home Rule League declined due to many factors.
♟️In 1917: Montford reforms was presented before the British Parliament. The Montford reforms promised responsible Government in India.
♟️It was the Montford reforms that turned Annie Besant ‘pro-British’.
♟️Bal Gangadhar Tilak went to England to file a legal suit against Valentine Chirol. Valentine Chirol had published, a book, “Father of Indian Unrest”
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