HISTORY
MODERN INDIA
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant launched the Home Rule League in India in 1916.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bal Gangadhar Tilak founded the first home rule league at the Bombay provincial congress at Belgaum in 1916. Annie Besant founded the second league at Adyar, Madras in 1916.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many prominent leaders like Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Joseph Baptista, G S Kharpade and Sir S Subramanya Iyer were among its members. The moderates, extremists and the Muslim League were briefly united through this movement. The movement was able to spread political consciousness to more regions in the country.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tilak was associated with the Home Rule League. Home Rule Leagues were organizations established in April and September 1916 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant.
Detailed explanation-5: -Annie Besant laid the foundation of the Home Rule Movement in Madras (present-day Chennai). She was a social reformer, a campaigner for women’s rights, and a supporter of Indian nationalism. In September 1916, she started the Home Rule League in Madras.