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At a protest in Madras in 1945. Women emerged from their homes in large numbers to participate in the Swadeshi movement, which acted as a turning point in this respect, in India. (Wikimedia)
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Gandhi at Noakhali (then in East Pakistan, now in Bangladesh) during the Partition riots. He would be assassinated months later, on January 30, 1948. (HT Archives)