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| VI. The World Wars and the Interwar Period, 1914–1945 > G. South and Southeast Asia, 1914–1945 > 1. India > 1939, Jan. 29 | ||||
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| The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001. |
| 1939, Jan. 29 | |
| Bose was reelected congress president, defeating Gandhi's candidate. The delegates to the ensuing congress session (Tripuri, March 10–12) rejected Bose's proposal to send the British government an ultimatum demanding independence within six months, and reiterated their faith in Gandhi's nonviolent policy and program. Unable because of Gandhi's opposition to form a working committee (the congress executive), Bose resigned (April 29) and formed his own party, the Forward Bloc (May 3), outside the congress. | 1 |
| During the Great Depression the peasantry was adversely affected by the fall of prices on the world market, but business interests were able to expand in areas left vacant by the shortage of investment capital from abroad. The standard of living remained pitifully low for the vast mass of the people, 85 percent of whom lived in rural areas, and 90 percent of whom were illiterate. By 1940 the total population had grown to about 385 million from an estimated 160 million in 1800. | 2 |
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| India declared war on Germany. | 3 |
| The Encyclopedia of World History, Sixth edition. Peter N. Stearns, general editor. Copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Maps by Mary Reilly, copyright © 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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