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India · 1897Plague, the Chapekar attack on Rand, and Tilak's sedition conviction

Coercive plague measures in Bombay and Poona provoked intense public resentment. In June 1897, the Chapekar brothers attacked Plague Commissioner W.C. Rand and Lt. Ayerst at Poona, and B.G. Tilak was later convicted of sedition. The Epidemic Diseases Act was enacted, while the Assam earthquake and the 1896-97 famine deepened distress.

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Key figures

Bal Gangadhar Tilak — convicted of sedition over writings in Kesari and sentenced to 18 months' rigorous imprisonment.Damodar and Balkrishna Chapekar — attacked Plague Commissioner W.C. Rand and Lt. Ayerst at Poona.Swami Vivekananda — founded the Ramakrishna Mission on 1 May 1897 at Calcutta.C. Sankaran Nair — presided over the 1897 Amraoti session of the Indian National Congress.Ronald Ross — made a key malaria-mosquito discovery at Secunderabad in 1897; Nobel Prize 1902.Subhas Chandra Bose — born on 23 January 1897 at Cuttack.

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