{"id":129,"date":"2007-10-01T16:53:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T21:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tarunmendiratta.com\/hawan.net\/hawan\/wordpress\/?p=128"},"modified":"2017-01-31T17:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T22:12:01","slug":"bal-gangadhar-tilak-october-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Bal Gangadhar Tilak (October 2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tilak was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle class family. He was one of the first and strongest proponents for Swaraj (complete independence) in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of “Hindu Nationalism”. He was a multifaceted personality He was a national leader, social reformer, freedom fighter and a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Mathematics, Law & Astronomy.<\/p>\n

His famous quote, “Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!” is well remembered in India even today. He was addressed as Lokmanya (beloved of the people).<\/p>\n

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  1. Tilak proposed various social reforms, such as a minimum age for marriage, and was especially keen to see a prohibition placed on the sale of alcohol. His thoughts on education and Indian political life have remained highly influential – he was the first Congress leader to suggest that Hindi, written in the devanagari script, should be accepted as the sole national language of India, a policy that was later strongly endorsed by Mahatma Gandhi.<\/li>\n
  2. Tilak founded the Marathi daily Kesari in 1880. In just two years ‘Kesari’ attracted more readers than any language newspapers in India. The editorials gave a vivid picture of the people’s sufferings and of actual happenings. They called upon every Indian to fight for his right.<\/li>\n
  3. In 1893, Lokmanya Tilak reshaped the annual Ganesh festival from private family celebrations into a grand public event.\u00a0 He did so “to bridge the gap\u201d between the Brahmins and the non-Brahmins.<\/li>\n
  4. His call for boycott of foreign goods served to inspire patriotism among Indian masses<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Tilak was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle class family. He was one of the first and strongest proponents for Swaraj (complete independence) in Indian consciousness, and is considered the father of “Hindu Nationalism”. He was a multifaceted personality He was a national leader, social reformer, freedom fighter and a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, Mathematics, Law & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12","category-monthly-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}