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India · 1912Capital shifts to Delhi, Bengal reunited — and a bomb wounds Viceroy Hardinge

The imperial capital was transferred from Calcutta to Delhi after the 1911 Delhi Durbar announcement, and the 1905 Partition of Bengal was annulled with effect from 1 April 1912. Bihar and Orissa became a separate province, Assam was separated, and revolutionary nationalism was highlighted by the bomb attack that wounded Viceroy Lord Hardinge in Delhi in December 1912.

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Key figures

Lord Hardinge of Penshurst — Viceroy of India from 1910 to 1916; wounded in the 23 December 1912 Delhi bomb attack and aRash Behari Bose — revolutionary associated with the Delhi Conspiracy Case and the bomb attack on the Viceroy.R.N. Mudholkar — Moderate leader who presided over the 1912 Bankipore session of the Indian National Congress.Gopal Krishna Gokhale — Moderate statesman who toured South Africa in 1912 and served on the Islington Commission.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad — launched the Urdu weekly Al-Hilal in 1912, advocating anti-colonial nationalism and Hindu-MuslRabindranath Tagore — whose English Gitanjali was published in 1912, preceding his 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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