Q. Which of the following personalities were the founders of the Home Rule Movement? Bal Gangadhar Tilak Annie Besant Mohammad Ali Jinnah Mahatma Gandhi Select the correct option from the codes given below:
Answer: 1 and 2
Notes: The Home Rule Movement waslaunched under the leadership of Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Tilak constituted the first home rule league at Belgaum in April, 1916. Annie Besant founded the second Home Rule league at Adyar Madras in September 1916. In 1917, Annie Besant was arrested. She was the first woman president of the Kolkata session of INC in 1917.

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