Discuss the contribution of home rule league to national movement upsc
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Annie Besant launched the Home Rule League in September 1916 at Madras. They had the common objective of achieving self-government in India. There was an informal understanding between both the leagues wherein Tilak's league worked in Maharashtra (except Bombay), Karnataka, Berar and the Central Provinces.
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The Indian Home Rule movement was a movement in British India on the lines of Irish Home Rule movement and other home rule movements. In 1921 All India Home Rule League changed its name to Swarajya Sabha. The first important work was written by Gandhi entitle Hind Swaraj or Indian home rule, composed in 1909.
The primary objective of the Home Rule Movement was to achieve self-government within the British Empire through the use of constitutional means. That is, it aimed at the establishment of a government by Councils, whose members would be elected by the people of India.