Word: dacca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calcutta, Dacca, Barisal, Mymen-singh and numerous other places, he stirred the people to revolt nonviolently against the British. The Swaraj* movement began. He started a newspaper, the Narayana, to aid the cause. He attacked the white officials as a class and he attacked most bitterly the domineering merchants who had, he alleged, come to India for ill-got gain. But his attachment to the King-Emperor never wavered in the most difficult moments. All that he wanted was freedom for Indians within "the most glorious empire in history...