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Founding of the Cambridge Majlis.
Founding of the Nav Ratan Society (Nine Pearls Society), then Oxford Majlis.
Fazl-I-Husain, student at Christ’s College, Cambridge and President of the Majlis, defends the University’s Indian students after a racist attack in a popular student magazine.
John Maynard Keynes addresses the Cambridge Majlis about India, tariffs and the swadeshi movement.
Beatrice Webb, co-founder of the Fabian Society, writes an article about the “Woman’s Movement” in the Oxford Indian Magazine, Oxford Majlis’s own journal.
Classical scholar Gilbert Murray raises a toast to both Indian and Irish nationalisms at the Oxford Majlis’s yearly dinner.
Representatives of the Cambridge Majlis address the India Office to oppose the segregation of Indian students in a separate hostel at the University.
Mohamedali Currim Chagla is elected President of the Oxford Majlis.
Bharat, an Oxford Majlis’s quarterly, nearly gets censored by the India Office due to its pro-independence and communist views.
Golbanoo Nanabhai Cowasjee of Newnham College, Cambridge is the first woman student to be elected President of the Cambridge Majlis (as per our knowledge).
Ellen Wilkinson as ex-Labour MP (1924-1931) addresses the Cambridge Majlis about the imprisonment of over 40,000 pro-Congress people in India.
The Ceylon Society is affiliated to the Cambridge Majlis.
The Cambridge Majlis raises funds to support the setting up of an ambulance unit by the Spain-India Committee for Republican Spain.
LSE’s Indian Society and the Cambridge Majlis organise a public meeting between Harry Pollitt, co-founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and Krishna Menon, member of the India League, in London.
Subrata Ray Chaudhuri and Dilip Sen are appointed to represent the Cambridge Majlis at meetings with Éamon de Valera and Maud Gonne MacBride to discuss Indo-Irish independence in Dublin, Ireland.
Kamala Acharya of St. Anne’s College, Oxford is the first woman student to be elected President of the Oxford Majlis (as per our knowledge).
Amartya Sen is elected President of the Cambridge Majlis.
The Cambridge Majlis ceases to exist due to the Bangladesh Liberation War of that same year.