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Historical Event on 2/17/1931
Viceroy of India Lord Irvin accepted Mahatma Gandhi as leader of people and invited him at Vicregal Lodge (now known at Rashtrapati Bhavan). After the event, Winston Churchill, who later became Prime Minister of Britain, referred Gandhiji as ""the Half-Naked Fakir of India"".

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6/27/1998	Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan, Gandhian, Congressman and former Sikkim Governor, dies at 86.
3/8/1986	L.K. Advani elected President of BJP.
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5/15/1878	Sivnath Shastri and Ananda Mohan Bose, under the leadership of the younger group of Brahmo Sama, rebelled and started Sadharan Brahmo Samaj.

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