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Early Nationalism

India · 1893Vivekananda's Chicago address carries Indian thought onto the world stage

Indian self-assertion surfaced on several fronts in 1893: Swami Vivekananda's 11 September address at Chicago's Parliament of Religions, Tilak's public Ganesh festival in Maharashtra, and the young M.K. Gandhi's experience of racial discrimination at Pietermaritzburg. The colonial state closed its mints to the free coinage of silver and concluded the Durand Line Agreement.

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Key figures

Swami Vivekananda — represented India at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, in 1893.M.K. Gandhi — young barrister whose Pietermaritzburg experience in 1893 shaped his resistance to racial injustice.Bal Gangadhar Tilak — promoted the public Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav in 1893 as a tool of mobilisation.Dadabhai Naoroji — INC president at Lahore in 1893 and the first Indian member of the British House of Commons.Aurobindo Ghosh — wrote 'New Lamps for Old' in the Indu Prakash, critiquing Moderate politics.Sir Mortimer Durand — British Indian official who negotiated the Durand Line with Amir Abdur Rahman Khan.

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