Anti-moderate leaders such as Annie Beasant and Lokmanya Tilak took the opportunity to call for a national movement for Home Rule.

According to Bal Gangadhar Tilak referring to RV 1. 161. 13 the twelve days, when the Ribhus rested at the house of Agohya, took place " at the end of the year ".

Though the Bill was not extreme, only raising the age of consent from ten to twelve, Tilak took issue with it ; he did not object per se to the idea of moving towards the elimination of child marriage, but rather to the idea of British interference with Hindu tradition.

Tilak traveled from village to village trying to conjure up support from farmers and locals to join the movement towards self-rule.

Chembur has several open public spaces like Gandhi Maidan, Annabhau Sathe Garden, Diamond Garden, Ambedkar Udyan, Sandu Garden, Tilak Nagar grounds ( Sahyadri & Municipal Ground ) and Jawahar Grounds where people meet up and conduct sports events and activities.

Although Tilak ultimately lost the suit, Chirol ended up spending almost two years in India on account of it, missing the bulk of World War I.

He was the first to give the call for Swarajya – " India for Indians " – in 1876, later taken up by Lokmanya Tilak.

Tilak began a mass movement towards independence that was camouflaged by an emphasis on a religious and cultural revival.

Following the partition of Bengal in 1905, which was a strategy set out by Lord Curzon to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged the Swadeshi movement and the Boycott movement.

Tilak opposed the moderate views of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal and Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab.

The party split into the " Jahal matavadi " (" Hot Faction " or radicals ), led by Tilak, Pal and Lajpat Rai, and the " Maval matavadi " (" Soft Faction " or moderates ).

Tilak saw the spark in Mohandas Gandhi and tried his best to convince Gandhi to leave the idea of " Total Ahinsa " and try to get " Swarajya " by all means.

Tilak was impressed by the Russian Revolution, and expressed his admiration for Vladimir Lenin.

Gopal Ganesh Agarkar was the first editor of Kesari, a prominent Marathi weekly in his days, which was started by Lokmanya Tilak in 1880-81.

* Lokmanya Tilak: A Biography, by A K Bhagwat and G P Pradhan ( Publisher JAICO ).

* Shrimad Bhagwat Geeta: Geeta Rahasya by Lokmanya Tilak ( Sharda Prakashan

* Remembering Tilak Maharaj by Jyotsna Kamat

The " Pitriyana " ( meaning " the path of the fathers ", called Pitrs ), are the six southern signs of the Zodiak, by Tilak also called " the eternal waters of Yamaloka ".

William Dwight Whitney 1895 rejected this interpretation by Tilak.

Shastri was influenced by major Indian nationalist leaders including Tilak and Gandhi.

Gokhale ’ s first major confrontation with Tilak centered around one of his pet projects, the Age of Consent Bill introduced by the British Imperial Government, in 1891-92.

For Tilak, such reform movements were not to be sought after under imperial rule when they would be enforced by the British, but rather after independence was achieved when Indians would enforce it on themselves.

By now, Congress was split: Gokhale and Tilak were the respective leaders of the moderates and the " extremists " ( the latter now known by the more term, ' aggressive nationalists ') in the Congress.

Gokhale, though an earlier leader of the Indian nationalist movement, was not primarily concerned with independence but rather with social reform ; he believed such reform would be best achieved by working within existing British government institutions, a position which earned him the enmity of more aggressive nationalists such as Tilak.

This idea was earlier proposed by Bal Gangadhar Tilak ( whom Bennett credits ) in his The Arctic Home in the Vedas ( 1903 ) as well as the Austro-Hungarian ethnologist Karl Penka ( Origins of the Aryans, 1883 ).

Inspired by Indian independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak in the early 1900s, he later became a member of the Salem municipality in 1911.

In this occult belief, Evola was additionally influenced by Arctic Home in the Vedas by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, which posited the polar North as the original home of the white Ur-Aryan tribes before their later separation into Western ( Hellenic, Roman, Celtic, Germanic ) and Eastern ( Iranian, Indo-Aryan ) divisions.

He was also influenced by Tilak, Dayananda Sarasvati and Mahatma Gandhi.

As a young man, he was inspired by the new generation of radical political leaders namely Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai along with the political struggle against the partition of Bengal and the rising Swadeshi campaign.

During this time Khandwa was visited by Swami Dayanad Saraswati of Arya Samaj fame, Swami Vivekanand, the great monk and founder of Ramkrishna Mission, Mahatma Gandhi in 1921, Lokmanya Tilak, and others.

Tilak, in his paper Kesari, defended the revolutionaries and called for immediate Swaraj or self-rule.

Independence activist Bal Gangadhar Tilak was charged with sedition for his writings as editor of the Kesari newspaper.

Kesari () is a newspaper founded in 1881 by Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader of the Indian Independence movement.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak used to run his two newspapers, the Kesari, in Marathi and Maratha in English from Kesari Wada.

The Wada still has the offices of Kesari, and mementos of Tilak, including his writing desk original letters and documents, and the first India national flag unfurled by Madame Cama.

The Kesari, then under the editorship of Agarkar, and the Mahratta under Tilak, argued that Shivaji IV was not ‘ mad ’ and the little instability in his mental state was caused by the maltreatment given to him by the servants and officials appointed to take care of him.

Lokmanya Tilak ( ), born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak ( – ), was an Indian nationalist, journalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and independence fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement.

Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of " Swaraj " ( self-rule ) and a strong radical in Indian consciousness.

Lokmanya Tilak was born at Chummakachu Lane ( Ranjani Aaleea ) in Chikhalgaon, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family.

His father, Shri Gangadhar Tilak was a famous school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar who died when Tilak was sixteen.

Tilak was among one of the first generation of Indians to receive a college education.

Tilak was expected, as was the tradition then, to actively participate in public affairs.

Tilak was charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.

As a result, Tilak was sent to Mandalay, Burma from 1908 to 1914.

When asked in Calcutta whether he envisioned a Maratha-type of government for Free India, Tilak replied that the Maratha-dominated governments of 17th and 18th centuries were outmoded in the 20th century, and he wanted a genuine federal system for Free India where every religion and race was an equal partner.