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| 1925 |
| | The RSS party, from which the present Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) derives, is established in India by Keshava Baliram Hedgewar | |
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| 1930 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 240-mile march from Ahmedabad to the sea to defy the British salt tax, thus launching a campaign of civil disobedience | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | Sectarian hostilities increase in Kashmir, with the Muslim majority resenting the favours shown by the British to the Sikh and Hindu elite | |
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| 1934 |
| | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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| 1935 |
| | R.K. Narayan's novel Swami and Friends is the first set in his fictional town of Malgudi | |
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| 1940 |
| | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1942 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi launches the Quit India Movement, calling on a large crowd in Bombay to 'do or die' in the struggle to expel the British | |
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| 1942 |
| | Mahatma Gandhi and nearly all the leaders of India's Congress party are arrested and will remain in prison until the end of the war | |
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| 1947 |
| | In granting independence to India, Britain partitions the subcontinent along sectarian lines into Pakistan and the republic of India | |
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| 1947 |
| | Louis Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India, becomes also the first governor-general | |
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