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Poona plague and Rand’s assassination (1897)

On the Indian independence map as “Poona — plague and Tilak”

22 Jun 1897 — Under the plague regulations, soldiers searched homes and removed sick people. The Chapekar brothers shot W. C. Rand, the plague commissioner. Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s newspaper Kesari had attacked the searches; Tilak was sentenced to eighteen months for sedition, served about a year, and emerged as a national figure.

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Turning point
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British Raj and the early Congress (chapter 2 of Indian independence)
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Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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Map showing Poona plague and Rand’s assassination (1897), turning point in Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
TURNING POINT · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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