Q. Who organised ‘Shivaji Utsav’ ,’Ganeshotsav’ in Maharashtra ?
Solution:
Bal Gangadhara Tilak
- Bal Gangadhara Tilak played an important role in popularizing the cult of partiotisam and making the congress movement broad based.
- He is populary known as ‘ Lokmanya’ and ‘Uncrowned king of India’.
- In 1908 he was deported to Mandalay(Burma) for six years.
- ‘Swaraj is my birth right’ is the slogan raised by Bal Gangadhara Tilak.
- The father of Indian unrest – Bal Gangadhara Tilak
- Sir Valentine Chirol called him ” The father of unrest in India” in his work “The Indian Unrest”.
- Famous books written by Tilak – Artic Home of Aryans, Gita Rahasya
- Bal Gangadhara Tilak started Ganesh festivel and Sivaji festivel in Maharstra.
- The news paper started by Tilak- The Marath, Kesari
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