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| 1926 |
| | | The Balfour Report, by former UK prime minister A.J. Balfour, suggests the way forward for the British Commonwealth of Nations | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Jomo Kenyatta becomes the editor of Muigwithania, the newspaper of the Kikuyu Central Association | |
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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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| 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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| c. 1945 |
| | | Gamal Abdel Nasser and army colleagues form a secret party, the Free Officers, to fight for an independent Egyptian republic | |
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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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