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National Book Trust Lokamanya Tilak (English) by G P Pradhan
Lokamanya Tilak (English)
Lokamanya Tilak was the apostle of civil revolt in India's struggle for freedom. He made the people aware that Swarajya was their birthright and helped kindle the flame of patriotism by involving them in the struggle through his four-point programme of swadeshi, boycott, national education and swarajya. Tilak was an outstanding leader, an eminent scholar and, above all, a man of rare moral integrity.
G.P. Pradhan is a socialist who participated in the freedom struggle before taking to teaching English at Fergusson College where he has taught for the past twenty years. He represented the graduates in the Maharashtra Legislative Council for eighteen years and was leader of the opposition from 1980 to 1982. He has written books both in English and in Marathi. Two of his books, India's Freedom Struggle in English and Sata Uttarachi Kahani in Marathi, have won all-India awards.
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Contents
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Preface
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Student and Teacher
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1
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Youth is the springtime of life. During this happy period
spirits soar high, eager to accept any challenge, face any danger.
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Dedicated Journalist and Radical Nationalist
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16
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Recognition in public life is always rare and if it ever comes,
it does so only after severe tests and trials. Man's ability is proved in
moments of cries and through the part he plays during his struggle against
injustice.
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Four-Point Programme for Swarajya
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54
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The struggle for liberty is a way of asserting the dignity of
human life. When a nation loses freedom and is ruled by another nation, the
subject nation develops a feeling of inferiority and the people lose their
sense of self-respect.
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An Ordeal
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75
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After the successful agitation against the partition of Bengal,
people in India came to realise that a mass movement alone could enable them
to acquire political rights.
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Broad-Based Political Movement
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103
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The First World War broke out in August 1914. A major calamity
befell England; the British government did not want to face growing unrest in
India at this juncture.
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Scholar and Unique Leader
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138
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The pursuit of knowledge was, for Lokamanya Tilak, a perennial
source of joy. He would often say,''If I had been born in free India,…
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