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After India won independence and then was hastily partitioned, Hansrani got involved with other activities of the IWA. Opting to make
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Hansrani, went back to India in 1949 to see his family and also got married. The newly weds soon arrived in
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back to their families in India and in return receive news about the dire situation in the country. This would often stimulate discussions amongst those in the commune and the highly political situation in
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and history, thus documented everything. Unfortunately, he trusted a researcher from Canada with important documents relating to the IWA and the League, who then lost them.
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