100th Death Anniversary - Tilak
August 5 , 2020
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- Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s 100th death anniversary was observed on August 1st.
- He was a part of the Lal-Bal-Pal (Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal) troika.
- He was called ‘father of the Indian unrest” by British colonial rulers.
- Jawaharlal Nehru called him the ‘father of Indian revolution’.
- Mahatma Gandhi described Tilak as ‘the maker of modern India’.
- He was the strongest proponent of ‘purna swaraj’ or ‘total self-rule’.
- His famous slogan was ‘Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it’.
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