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Prominent leaders of the Indian independence movement

The historic Calcutta Town Hall in Kolkata, India, featuring a grand neoclassical facade with tall white columns and arched windows, built in 1813.

Rabindranath Tagore

Mahatma Gandhi sits cross-legged at a spinning wheel, or charkha, at Sabarmati Ashram in 1925, focused on spinning cotton.

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