<P> Indian medical orderlies attending to wounded soldiers with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia during World War I . </P> <Li> <P> Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (seated in carriage, on the right, eyes downcast, with black flat - top hat) receives a big welcome in Karachi in 1916 after his return to India from South Africa . </P> </Li> <P> Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (seated in carriage, on the right, eyes downcast, with black flat - top hat) receives a big welcome in Karachi in 1916 after his return to India from South Africa . </P> <Li> <P> Muhammad Ali Jinnah, seated, third from the left, was a supporter of the Lucknow Pact, which, in 1916, ended the three - way rift between the Extremists, the Moderates and the League . </P> </Li>

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