Maharashtra State PSC Model Paper 5

The correct answer is Pune.

• Tilak formed his Home Rule League in 1916 at Pune.

•  Home Rule Movement (1916 AD):
  • The Home Rule League was pioneered on the lines of a similar movement in Ireland.
  • The Muslim League also supported the movement.
• Tilak’s Home Rule Movement:
  • It started in April 1916 AD at Poona. Tilak’s league was to work in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Central Province and Berar, excluding Bombay.
  • Josef Baptista became the President and N.C. Kelkar secretary.
  • He gave the slogan Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it’.
  • Tilak’s newspapers Maratha and Kesari were the organs for home rule.
• Annie Basant’s Home Rule Movement:
  • Started with Subramaniya Iyer in Adyar in September, worked in the rest of India.
  • Annie Besant’s newspapers New India, Commonwealth and Young India became important for this movement. She coined the term ‘commonwealth’.