Bal Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920) was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and radical nationalist who laid the foundation of India’s independence. He founded the ‘Indian Home Rule League’ in the year 1914 and was its president in 1916 signing the Lucknow Pact with Muhammad Ali Jinnah. He started the work of awakening the political consciousness of the people through two weekly newspapers, Kesari in Marathi and The Maratha in English.
Tilak’s views were a bit more extreme for the moderate party like Indian National Congress. His prominent slogan was “Swaraj is our birthright and I will have it.” Taking a resolution to use his free time for some good work, he devoted it to the reading of his favourite books, the Bhagavad Gita and Rigveda.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Quotes
Here are quotes of Bal Gangadhar Tilak:
If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness,
The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.
The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it and carries it further back into remote antiquity.
It may be providence’s will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.
The problem is not the lack of resources or capability, but the lack of will.
Swaraj is my birthright, and I Shall have it!
