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India · 1941Subhas Chandra Bose escapes British house arrest and reaches Berlin

Bose's secret escape from Calcutta to Germany and Gandhi's continuing Individual Satyagraha marked the year, even as the Second World War widened with Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The Muslim League made the Lahore Resolution part of its programme, and Rabindranath Tagore died on 7 August 1941.

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Key figures

Subhas Chandra Bose — Forward Bloc leader who escaped British house arrest in January 1941 and reached Germany to seek AMahatma Gandhi — directed the Individual Satyagraha as a limited anti-war campaign.Rabindranath Tagore — Nobel laureate poet; died on 7 August 1941 after his final reflections associated with 'Crisis in Lord Linlithgow — Viceroy who expanded the Executive Council and set up the National Defence Council in 1941.Muhammad Ali Jinnah — Muslim League president; the League made the Lahore Resolution part of its formal programme at theArchibald Wavell — appointed Commander-in-Chief in India in 1941.

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