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| 1912 |
| | | Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali | |
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| 1913 |
| | | Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker | |
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| 1914 |
| | | from August - the German cruiser Emden carries out successful raids on British shipping in the seas around India | |
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| 1914 November 9 |
| | | The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney | |
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| 1915 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa | |
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| 1919 |
| | | More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar | |
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| c. 1921 |
| | | The first traces are found of a major but entirely forgotten civilization in the Indus valley | |
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| 1922 |
| | | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested by the British in India as an agitator and is sentenced to six years in prison | |
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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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