'''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.