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Baal Gangadhar Tilak. (1856-1920) born just one year before the India war of independence of 1857, Tilak was to carry forward and fortify with steadfast devotion and rare courage the struggle against the British Empire. The inspired, determined and mobilised nation could no longer be thrown back to its knees.
It rejected the constitutionalism of the moderates, if he frowned upon the social reforms, it was because he clearly understood the imperatives of real politic and while he considered reformism as costly distraction, he looked upon the constitutionalism as movement’s self-deception.