Lokmanya Tilak was conferred with the title of "Lokmanya", which means "accepted by the people as their leader".
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56 Facts About Lokmanya Tilak
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Lokmanya Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj and a strong radical in Indian consciousness.
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Lokmanya Tilak formed a close alliance with many Indian National Congress leaders including Bipin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Aurobindo Ghose, V O Chidambaram Pillai and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
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Keshav Gangadhar Lokmanya Tilak was born on 23 July 1856 in an Marathi Hindu Chitpavan Brahmin family in Ratnagiri, the headquarters of the Ratnagiri district of present-day Maharashtra.
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Lokmanya Tilak's father, Gangadhar Tilak was a school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar who died when Tilak was sixteen.
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In 1871, Lokmanya Tilak was married to Tapibai when he was sixteen, a few months before his father's death.
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Lokmanya Tilak began a mass movement towards independence by an emphasis on a religious and cultural revival.
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Lokmanya Tilak had a long political career agitating for Indian autonomy from British colonial rule.
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Unlike his fellow Maharashtrian contemporary, Gokhale, Lokmanya Tilak was considered a radical Nationalist but a Social conservative.
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Lokmanya Tilak was imprisoned on a number of occasions that included a long stint at Mandalay.
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Lokmanya Tilak opposed its moderate attitude, especially towards the fight for self-government.
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Lokmanya Tilak was charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment.
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Lokmanya Tilak said that the Swadeshi and Boycott movements are two sides of the same coin.
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Lokmanya Tilak opposed the moderate views of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal and Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab.
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Lokmanya Tilak added that only such a form of government would be able to safeguard India's freedom.
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Lokmanya Tilak was the first Congress leader to suggest that Hindi written in the Devanagari script be accepted as the sole national language of India.
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In 1897, Lokmanya Tilak was sentenced to 18 months in prison for preaching disaffection against the Raj.
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In 1916 when for the third time Lokmanya Tilak was charged for sedition over his lectures on self-rule, Jinnah again was his lawyer and this time led him to acquittal in the case.
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Lokmanya Tilak threw off the judicial restraint which, to some extent, was observable in his charge to the jury.
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Lokmanya Tilak condemned the articles as "seething with sedition", as preaching violence, speaking of murders with approval.
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Lokmanya Tilak welcomed The Indian Councils Act, popularly known as Minto-Morley Reforms, which had been passed by British Parliament in May 1909, terming it as "a marked increase of confidence between the Rulers and the Ruled".
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Lokmanya Tilak was eager for reconciliation with Congress and had abandoned his demand for direct action and settled for agitations "strictly by constitutional means" – a line that had long been advocated by his rival Gokhale.
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Lokmanya Tilak reunited with his fellow nationalists and rejoined the Indian National Congress during the Lucknow pact 1916.
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Lokmanya Tilak tried to convince Mohandas Gandhi to leave the idea of Total non-violence and try to get self-rule by all means.
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Lokmanya Tilak travelled from village to village for support from farmers and locals to join the movement towards self-rule.
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Lokmanya Tilak was impressed by the Russian Revolution, and expressed his admiration for Vladimir Lenin.
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Lokmanya Tilak started his Home Rule League in Maharashtra, Central Provinces, and Karnataka and Berar region.
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Lokmanya Tilak sought to unite the Indian population for mass political action throughout his life.
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Lokmanya Tilak named this call to activism karma-yoga or the yoga of action.
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Lokmanya Tilak was strongly opposed to liberal trends emerging in Pune such as women's rights and social reforms against untouchability.
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Lokmanya Tilak vehemently opposed the establishment of the first Native girls High school in Pune in 1885 and its curriculum using his newspapers, the Mahratta and Kesari.
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Lokmanya Tilak was opposed to intercaste marriage, particularly the match where an upper caste woman married a lower caste man.
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Lokmanya Tilak officially opposed the age of consent bill which raised the age of marriage from ten to twelve for girls, however he was willing to sign a circular that increased age of marriage for girls to sixteen and twenty for boys.
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Lokmanya Tilak approved of this decision of the court and said that the court was following Hindu Dharmasastras.
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Lokmanya Tilak opposed the Bill and said that the Parsis as well as the English had no jurisdiction over the religious matters.
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Lokmanya Tilak blamed the girl for having "defective female organs" and questioned how the husband could be "persecuted diabolically for doing a harmless act".
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Lokmanya Tilak called the girl one of those "dangerous freaks of nature".
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Lokmanya Tilak did not have a progressive view when it came to gender relations.
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Lokmanya Tilak did not believe that Hindu women should get a modern education.
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Lokmanya Tilak refused to sign a petition for the abolition of untouchability in 1918, two years before his death, although he had spoken against it earlier in a meeting.
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When Vivekananda died at a young age, Lokmanya Tilak expressed great sorrow and paid tributes to him in the Kesari.
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Lokmanya Tilak had hoped that he would crown his achievement with the fulfillment of this task by virtue of his learning, eloquence, enthusiasm and sincerity, just as he had laid a secure foundation for it; but with Swami's samadhi, these hopes have gone.
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Lokmanya Tilak even suggested that the Marathas should be "content" with the Shudra status assigned to them by the Brahmins.
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In 1894, Lokmanya Tilak transformed the household worshipping of Ganesha into a grand public event.
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In 1895, Lokmanya Tilak founded the Shri Shivaji Fund Committee for the celebration of "Shiv Jayanti", the birth anniversary of Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha Empire.
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Lokmanya Tilak proposed a new way to determine the exact time of the Vedas.
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Lokmanya Tilak wrote Shrimadh Bhagvad Gita Rahasya in prison at Mandalay – the analysis of Karma Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita, which is known to be a gift of the Vedas and the Upanishads.
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Lokmanya Tilak was a member of the Parliament of India representing Maharashtra in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian Parliament.
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Rohit Lokmanya Tilak, a descendant of Bal Gangadhar Lokmanya Tilak, is a Pune-based Congress party politician.
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Lokmanya Tilak is currently out on bail in connection with these charges.
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The portrait of Lokmanya Tilak, painted by Gopal Deuskar, was unveiled by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru.
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