Today is the 100th death anniversary of the great freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a great personality who gave the slogan 'Swaraj is our birthright and I will take it'. This slogan has great importance in the freedom struggle from the British.
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak died in Mumbai on August 1, 1920. Prime Minister Modi has also remembered Bal Gangadhar Tilak on his death anniversary and shared a three-and-a-half-minute video with his Twitter handle. PM Modi wrote that on this day all Lokmanya salutes Tilak and remembers his courage, valor, and dreams of Swaraj.
Here you can see the video released by PM Modi ...
Newspapers started in English and Marathi language
Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a nationalist, teacher, social reformer, and lawyer. He was a staunch critic of English education, he believed that English education disrespected Indian civilization. The first were freedom fighters, who raised the demand for Swaraj during the British Raj.
Apart from this, Lokmanya Tilak started Maratha Darpan in the English language and Kesari two daily newspapers in the Marathi language. Due to his articles appearing in Kesari, he had to go to jail many times. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was quite critical of the English rule through his letters.
Got the title of 'Lokmanya'
In 1916, Bal Gangadhar Tilak together with Annie Besant and Muhammad Ali Jinnah founded the All India Home Rule League. Bal Gangadhar Tilak gained a lot of fame due to the Home Rule Movement and due to this, he received the title of Lokmanya.
The main objective of this movement was to establish Swaraj in India. In this, a group of four or five people were formed, who used to meet the big politicians and lawyers of the country and explain to them the Home Rule. Annie Besant came to India from Ireland and saw the Home Rule movement there.
Death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The British government sentenced Bal Gangadhar Tilak to six years and sent him to Burma now in Myanmar prison. Meanwhile, Bal Gangadhar's wife died. However, Baal Gangadhar Tilak regretted not paying his wife's last visit.
After this, Bal Gangadhar Tilak died in Mumbai on August 1, 1920, and while paying tribute to his death, Mahatma Gandhi called him the creator of modern India and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru the father of Indian revolution.