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1903
 
    
Edward VII, the first British monarch to travel to India, holds a great coronation durbar in Delhi       
1906
 
   
The All-India Muslim League is set up at a meeting of the Muhammadan Educational Conference in Dhaka      
1909
 
     
Mahatma Gandhi, on a visit to India, publishes a pamphlet entitled Hind Swaraj ("Indian Home Rule")        
1911
 
    
The British monarch George V holds a great durbar in Delhi to celebrate his coronation as emperor of India       
1912
 
    
Rabindranath Tagore publishes a collection of his Bengali poems in Gitanjali       
1913
 
     
Construction begins on the government buildings in New Delhi, designed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert 1Baker        
Edwin Lutyens, by Robert Lutyens, 1959
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1914
 
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from August - the German cruiser Emden carries out successful raids on British shipping in the seas around India      
1914 November 9
 
    
The German cruiser Emden is sunk off the Cocos-Keeling islands by an Australian cruiser, the Sydney       
1915
 
   
Mahatma Gandhi returns to India after more than twenty years in South Africa      
1919
 
   
More than 300 die when British troops fire on a peaceful demonstration in Amritsar