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1912, Dec. 23
 
Lord Hardinge (viceroy, 1910–16) was wounded by a terrorist bomb in Delhi.  1
 
1913, Nov. 13
 
The Bengal poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.  2
 
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At the annual meeting of the Muslim League, Muslim leaders, alienated by the reversal of the Bengal partition and suspicious of British policy toward the Ottoman Empire, carried a resolution calling for the eventual “attainment of self-government for India.”  3
 
 
 
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