1916: Key Events

• Annie Besant and B. G. Tilak start their Home Rule Leagues on the lines of the Irish Home Rulers.

• Coomaraswamy’s entire collection of South Asian art is moved to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and he becomes its curator: this move influences his subsequent opposition to progressive Indian nationalism and its modernising aspects.

• The South Indian Liberation Federation, aka Justice Party, is formed in Madras.

• Universal Pictures sets up Hollywood’s first Indian agency.