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Mumbai’s Lost Freedom Movement Landmark: Shantaram Chawl Courtyard Where Gandhi Led 1918 Protest Vanishes Under Construction

Mumbai’s Lost Freedom Movement Landmark: Shantaram Chawl Courtyard Where Gandhi Led 1918 Protest Vanishes Under Construction
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Mumbai: The large courtyard of Shantaram Chawl in Girgaum, where about 12,000 people gathered on June 16, 1918, for a protest against Bombay Presidency Governor Lord Willingdon, has disappeared beneath a later construction. Gandhi-led protest against Governor Willingdon The meeting, presided over...

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