Foreign News: Indian Swaraj

Swaraj (or Self-Government) is a movement led by C. R. Das, chief lieutenant of the incarcerated Mahatma Ghandi.

In the elections of the Provincial Legislative Councils and the Indian or Central Legislative Assembly, which have been sweeping the whole Indian peninsula for the past month, the Swaraj won a notable victory in the Province of Bengal. In other parts of the country "the efforts of the extremists have not been very successful."

The success of the Swaraj in Bengal caused the resignation of the Legislative Council of the Bengal Government. Lord Lytton, Governor of...

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