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Which of the following is true about Home Rule League Movement in India?

A.
it was first started by Annie Besant in India
B.
This concept was brought from Germany
C.
B. G. Tilak died while he was spearheading this Movement
D.
This compelled British Rulers to come up with august declaration

Solution:

The correct answer is This compelled British Rulers to come up with the august declaration. Lokmanya Tilak and Annie Besant announced the two Home Rule league Movements during the Viceroyship of Lord Hardinge in the year 1916 based on the Irish Home Rule Movement. The Home Rule League movement compelled British Rulers to come up with the august declaration also known as the Montague Declaration of 1917. The first was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak along with N. C. Kelkar as its Secretary and Joseph Baptista as its President at Poona in April 1916. The second was started by Annie Besant along with her lieutenants George Arundale, Cp Ramaswamy Aiyar, and B. P. Wadia at Adyar near Madras in September 1916. The Bal Gangadhar Tilak league were to work in Karnataka, Maharashtra (excluding Bombay city), the Central Provinces, and Berar and Annie Besant league were to work in the rest of India. The objective of the Home Rule League Movement was Self-Government for India in the British Empire. Tilak gave the slogan "Swaraj is my Birthright and I shall have it". The Mahratta (English newspaper) and Kesari (Marathi Newspaper) of Tilak and New India and Commonweal of Annie Besant became the organs of the Home Rule League Movement. Sir Ignatius Valentine Chirol the British journalist and author of the book Indian Unrest called Bal Gangadhar Tilak the Father of Indian Unrest. In 1921 Indian Home Rule League was renamed Swarajya Sabha.

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