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Title: ORGANIZING FOR HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN MADRAS, 1915-17
Authors: R. Gopinath
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R. Gopinath Department of Indian History, University of Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
MLA 8 Gopinath, R. "ORGANIZING FOR HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN MADRAS, 1915-17." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 4, no. 5, May 2019, pp. 3439-3448, ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=257. Accessed May 2019. APA Gopinath, R. (2019, May). ORGANIZING FOR HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN MADRAS, 1915-17. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 4(5), 3439-3448. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=257 Chicago Gopinath, R. "ORGANIZING FOR HOME RULE MOVEMENT IN MADRAS, 1915-17." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 4, no. 5 (May 2019), 3439-3448. Accessed May, 2019. ijsser.org/more2019.php?id=257.
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Abstract: The years 1914 to 1922 represent a beginning of nation-wide agitation and political change in India. The two Home Rule Leagues founded by Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak were the organizations which, up to the beginning of 1919 channeled this process. Madras, known for long called the most 'benighted' and conservative of the presidencies, suddenly exploded into political activity in 1917. The Home Rule League, confronted the British with the most serious and largest movement of dissidence which their rule had faced anywhere in India since the Mutiny. Historians have analyzed the rise of the Home Rule movement in terms of patron-client linkages and Brahmin and Non-Brahmin conflicts. Both the Home Rule League agitation and the non-Brahman movement represented, no doubt, extremely new phenomena in Madras politics. The British could not dismiss the movement as a mere ritual performed by a handful of 'English educated Babus' and an irascible Irishwoman. The present paper is an attempt to analyze Home Rule agitation in the Madras Presidency up to 1917, the year when Mrs. Besant's political star reached its zenith.

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