History

'Swaraj Is My Birthright & I Shall Have It': Remembering Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Who Encouraged...

A teacher, an Indian nationalist, and an Independence activist, Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born on July 23, 1856, in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in a Marathi Brahmin family. His father, Gangadhar Tilak, was a Sanskrit scholar and a school teacher who passed away when Tilak was sixteen.In...