Indian Home Rule Movement
Factors that Contributed to the establishment of Home Rule League:
✅This was the high-time of the First World War.
✅Unification of extremists and moderates
✅Unification of INC and Muslim League.
✅ Tilak’s movement was confined to Maharashtra and Karnataka. And Annie Besant
movement spread to other parts of India.
✅The Home Rule league was ‘self-government’ based on the Irish model.
✅Initiate political reforms by pressurizing Government and mobilizing people’s opinion.
Note: demand was not Total Independence
✅Annie Besant tried to mobilize participation through the publication of her two newspapers:
a) New India
b) Commonweal However,
Tilak continued writing in ‘Kesari’, ‘Mahratta’, and Young India to spread the message of the Home Rule League.
The decline of Home Rule League:
✅In 1918, the Home Rule League declined due to many factors.
✅In 1917: Montford reforms was presented before the British Parliament. The Montford reforms promised responsible Government in India.
✅It was the Montford reforms that turned Annie Besant ‘pro-British’.
✅Bal Gangadhar Tilak went to England to file a legal suit against Valentine Chirol. Valentine Chirol had published, a book, “Father of Indian Unrest”