As a way of getting around the Government Order, the "Boy Scouts of Bengal" was founded, with identical aims and methods. Many separate Scout organizations began to spring up, the "Indian Boy Scouts Association", founded in 1916, based in Madras and headed by Annie Besant and George Arundale; "Boy Scouts of Mysore"; "Boy Scouts of Baroda"; "Nizam's Scouts" in Hyderabad; "Seva Samiti Scout Association" (Humanity Uplift Service Society), founded in 1917 by Madan Mohan Malaviya and Hridayanath Kunzru and based in Allahabad; the aforementioned "Boy Scouts of Bengal" and likely others. A conference was held in Calcutta in August 1920 in which Wilson staged a Scout Rally, and as a result the Viceroy of India sent an invitation to Lord Baden-Powell, by then Chief Scout of the World, to visit India. Lord and Lady Baden-Powell arrived in Bombay in late January 1921 for a short tour of the subcontinent before leaving Calcutta for Rangoon. Alfred Pickford accompanied them and became one of their closest friends.