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Poona plague and Rand’s assassination (1897)
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22 Jun 1897 — As soldiers searched homes and removed the sick under the plague regulations, the Chapekar brothers shot the plague commissioner, W. C. Rand. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, whose newspaper Kesari had attacked the searches, was sentenced to eighteen months for sedition, served about a year, and became a national figure.
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