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India · 1910The Indian Press Act of 1910 muzzles the nationalist press

Colonial repression defined the year: the Indian Press Act (1910) tightened controls on nationalist publications while revolutionaries faced prosecution and execution. The Morley-Minto reforms came into operation with separate electorates, and Lord Hardinge succeeded Lord Minto as Viceroy.

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Key figures

Lord Hardinge — became Viceroy (November 1910); his tenure included the 1911 Delhi Durbar and the annulment of Bengal's V.D. Savarkar — revolutionary; Marseilles escape (July 1910) and the ensuing Hague arbitration; linked to Abhinav BharatSri Aurobindo Ghose — Extremist leader who withdrew to Pondicherry (April 1910).Sir William Wedderburn — President of the INC's Allahabad session (1910).M.K. Gandhi — founded Tolstoy Farm (1910) and published the English 'Hind Swaraj' while leading the South African struggRabindranath Tagore — published the Bengali 'Gitanjali' (1910).

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