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2 unusual facts about Joseph Baptista


Joseph Baptista

In 1999, a book on Baptista titled Joseph Baptista: The father of Home Rule in India was released by K R Shirsat at Lalbaug in Mumbai.

He then sailed to England to pursue a BA degree in Political Science from the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.


Indian Home Rule Movement

Between 1916 and 1918, when the war was closing, prominent Indians like Joseph Baptista, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, G. S. Khaparde, Sir S. Subramania Iyer and the leader of the Theosophical Society, Annie Besant decided to organize a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government within the British Empire for all of India.


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