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Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist and self-rule activist in the Indian independence movement. He was one third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. The honorific "Lokmanya" was applied to him by his supporters.
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Born 23 July 1856 · Died 1 September 1920 · Q312555
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“I regard India as my Motherland and my Goddess, the people in India are my kith and kin, and loyal and steadfast work for their political and social emancipation is my highest religion and duty”
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“No Hindu who has the interests of Hinduism at his heart, could help feeling grieved over Vivekananda”
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“s commentary on the Gita, Ramanuja”
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The Government of India released a coin to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Tilak
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Died 1920-09-01.
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The Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Trust was founded
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Two years before his death, although he had spoken against it earlier in a meeting
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When for the third time Tilak was charged for sedition over his lectures on self-rule, Jinnah again was his lawyer and this time led him to acquittal in the case
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Was again charged with sedition for his articles published in Kesari, followed by a trial in 1909
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The annual session of the Congress Party was held at Surat, Gujarat
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Stated that the precise form Swaraj would assume would not entail a break with the empire
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Tilak wrote the book The Arctic Home in the Vedas
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Tilak was charged with inciting "disaffection of the government" and sentenced to 18 months in prison, for views he had expressed in Kesari, his newspaper
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Tilak founded the Shri Shivaji Fund Committee for the celebration of "Shiv Jayanti", the birth anniversary of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire
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Tilak transformed the household worshipping of Ganesha into a grand public event (Sarvajanik Ganeshotsav)
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And Tilak had Vivekananda as a guest in his house
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Tilak left the Deccan Education Society for more openly political work
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When an eleven-year-old Phulamani Bai died while having sexual intercourse with her much older husband, the Parsi social reformer Behramji Malabari supported the Age of Consent Act, 1891 to raise the age of a girl's elig
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And its curriculum using his newspapers, the Mahratta and Kesari
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To create a new system of education that taught young Indians nationalist ideas through an emphasis on Indian culture
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With a few of his college friends, including Gopal Ganesh Agarkar, Mahadev Ballal Namjoshi and Vishnushastri Chiplunkar
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Tilak was married to Tapibai (Née Bal) when he was sixteen, a few months before his father's death
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Born 1856-07-23.
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