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Who started the Young Men's Indian Association in 1914

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Who started the Young Men's Indian Association in 1914?

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In 1914, when Annie Besant, the president of the Theosophical Society, founded the Young Men's Indian Association (YMIA), she chose Gokhale Hall as its headquarters, where the youth would indulge in sports from table tennis to boxing and sit on the verandahs debating on the nation's affairs.
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