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  Alpheus--Theospohy as a Political Movement
Although the All-India Home Rule League remained independent of the Society, and although Besant generally continued to deny that the Theosophical Society was in any way political, the League relied heavily on people and networks brought together by the Society.
British rule had led to increased taxation of the Indian peasant, and so, in turn, to recurring famines and a neglect of the public works, such as irrigation, that were needed to promote economic development.
She demanded self-government for India in the immediate future, and she wanted the Congress to advance this demand by heading a campaign of educative propaganda, a campaign using many of the techniques with which she had become familiar as a radical agitator in Britain.
www.alpheus.org /html/articles/esoteric_history/bevir1_print.html   (7465 words)

  
 Its All About Pakistan
In a speech to the League in 1930, Sir Muhammad Iqbal mooted an independent state for Muslims in "northwest India." Choudhary Rahmat Ali published a pamphlet in 1933 advocating a state called "Pakistan".
The 1946 British Cabinet Mission to India released a plan on 16th May, calling for a united India comprised of considerably autonomous provinces, and called for "groups" of provinces formed on the basis of religion.
Although viceroy Lord Wavell asserted that there was "no satisfactory evidence to that effect",[22] League politicians were blamed by the Congress and the media for orchestrating the violence.[23] After a conference in December 1946 in London, the League entered the interim government, but Jinnah refrained from accepting office for himself.
www.pakwatan.com /gov_detail.php?id=25   (3195 words)

  
  1997 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
March 13 - India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
July 25 - K.R. Narayanan is sworn-in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
Officials at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time invoke the "circuit breaker" rule to stop trading (this was a very controversial move and prompted a quick change in the rule; trading stops will only occur when the DJIA drops at least 10 or 20 percent) (see October 27, 1997 mini-crash).
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Iran is home to around 25,000 Jews, down from a Population of 100,000 Jews before the 1979 revolution.
During the early part of Roman rule, the Hasmonaeans remained in power, until the family was annihilated by Herod the Great.
Upon his death in 4 BCE the Romans directly ruled Judea and There were frequent changes of policies by conflicting and empire-building Caesars, generals, governors, and consuls who often acted cruelly or to maximize their own wealth and power.
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 Articles - Mahatma Gandhi
In April 1920, Gandhi was elected president of the All-India Home Rule League.
After lengthy deliberations with colleagues in the Congress, he declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied here.
The wide acceptance of this title outside India may, in part, reflect the complexities of the relationship between India and Britain during Gandhi's lifetime.
www.haabaa.com /articles/mahatma-gandhi.php   (3412 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
Early Congress nationalism was one particular response to the challenge of organizing politically within the constraints of colonial rule.
Similarly, after his arrival in India, Gandhi?s leadership initiatives in Champaran, Ahmedabad and Khera can be seen as five-fingers exercises, undertaken in preparation for the anti-colonial struggle ahead.
By September 1920, Gandhi in an extraordinary political coup, had gotten himself elected president of the All-India Home Rule League and steered a resolution in favour of Non-Cooperation to preserve the Khilafat and wrest swaraj in the Congress session in Calcutta.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050626/asp/opinion/story_4915438.asp   (1485 words)

  
 Famous People - celebrity and historical
By means of nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi helped bring about India's independence from British rule, inspiring other colonial peoples to work for their own independence and ultimately dismantling the British Empire.
After lengthy deliberations with colleagues in the Congress, he declared that India could not be party to a war ostensibly being fought for democratic freedom while that freedom was denied in India herself.
The Muslim League argued that the Muslim minority would be systematically oppressed by the Hindu majority in a united India, and that a separate Muslims homeland was the only just solution.
www.famouspeople.com /famous_biographies/mahatma_gandhi.htm   (4951 words)

  
 Gandhi Back in India - (1914 - 1948)
In 1920, Gandhiji was elected the president of the All India Home Rule League.
The Congress passed the `Quit India' resolution-the final nation-wide `Satyagraha campaign' with Gandhiji as the leader.
Although Gandhiji participated in talks with Lord Mountbatten and Jinnah, he opposed the division of the country in India and Pakistan.
www.gandhi-manibhavan.org /aboutgandhi/biography_inindia.htm   (848 words)

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