Keshav Gangadhar Tilak who was well known by the name of Bal Gangadhar Tilak (Lokmanya Tilak) died on the exact date of today 100 years ago. This 100th death anniversary of our freedom fighter, we should know something about him.
One of the strongest advocates of “Swaraj”, & had a best political career during the British Rule he was called “The father of Indian Unrest” by British author Valentine Chirol.
When Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India applied a strategy to demolish nationalist movement Tilak boycott the movement by encouraging Swadeshi Movement that boycott foreign goods.
In 1908, when Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram
Bose threw a bomb on a carriage to kill the Chief Presidency Magistrate Douglas
Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but accidently they killed two women. Chaki
killed himself before anybody can caught him but Bose got arrested and hanged. Tilak defended the revolutionaries and called for
immediate Swaraj or self-rule in his book Kesari. That time government
charged him & a special jury convicted him where six years jail was
sentenced to be served in Mandalay.
Bal Gangadhar
Tilak launched the Indian Home Rule League with the rousing slogan “Swarajya is
my birthright and I will have it” after he was released.
He published The
Arctic Home in the Vedas that represents the origin of Aryans and Srimad
Bhagvat Gita Rahasya (1915).
One of the best freedom fighter & influencer, Bal Gangadhar Tilak died on 1 August, 1920.
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