Autobiography of lokmanya tilak

Loading interface About the author. Bhagwat 1 book. Write a Review. Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book! Community Reviews. Search review text. Displaying 1 - 9 of 9 reviews. Atul Sabnis. My first impression of this book is that it is exhausting. The narrative is engaging and the content is inspiring. But the matter is exhausting.

The exhausting nature has very little to do with the manner of the book; it has much to do with the life of Lokmanya Tilak. There is a military sense of discipline with which he lived a life and an inspiring sense of conviction with which he conducted it. It is interesting to wonder where the task starts. Biographers are perhaps naturally partial to the personality.

Not always, but going by most biographers, they choose to present a dimensioned view of the personality. There is an inherent devotion to the person, yet they often exit their comfort zone to criticise the person, the action, and the events. The presentation, unwillingly, I felt, is non-linear for the most part.

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But this device has been used to good effect. The obvious glorification of a great leader is absent; it is possible to see a person, bereft of the associated podium. The book is rooted in data, references, and statements; which are often interpreted but not embellished. Indian history deserves a parallel narrative to the one that exists.

This is one of the few books that will be a leader in that parallel. The Indian history narrative suffers from periodical amnesia; meaning that it chops off periods in Indian history to focus on popular and sponsored segments that capture our imagination. The chopping-off is due to certain sustained political and social reasons. Irrespective, this book, notwithstanding the tint of glasses that we wear, is an important contribution.

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Choose items to buy together. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1. All that I wish to say is that, in spite of the verdict of the jury, I still maintain that I am innocent. There are higher powers that rule the destinies of men and nations; and I think, it may be the will of Providence that the cause I represent may be benefited more by my suffering than by my pen and tongue.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah was his lawyer in the case. Justice Davar himself previously had appeared for Tilak in his first sedition case in He threw off the judicial restraint which, to some extent, was observable in his charge to the jury. He condemned the articles as "seething with sedition", as preaching violence, speaking of murders with approval.

I say, such journalism is a curse to the country". Tilak was sent to Mandalay from to While in the prison he wrote the Gita Rahasya. Tilak developed diabetes during his sentence in Mandalay prison. This and the general ordeal of prison life had mellowed him at his release on 16 June It was his conviction that acts of violence actually diminished, rather than hastening, the pace of political reforms.

He 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. Tilak tried to convince Mohandas Gandhi to leave the idea of Total non-violence "Total Ahimsa" and try to get self-rule "Swarajya" by all means.

After Tilak lost a civil suit against Valentine Chirol and incurred pecuniary autobiography of lokmanya tilak, Gandhi even called upon Indians to contribute to the Tilak Purse Fund started with the objective of defraying the expenses incurred by Tilak. Khaparde and Annie Besant. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he gave up and focused on the Home Rule League, which sought self-rule.

Tilak travelled from village to village for support from farmers and locals to join the movement towards self-rule. Besant's League was active in the rest of India. Tilak sought to unite the Indian population for mass political action throughout his life. For this to happen, he believed there needed to be a comprehensive justification for anti-British pro-Hindu activism.

For this end, he sought justification in the supposed original principles of the Ramayana and the Bhagavad Gita. He named this autobiography of lokmanya tilak to activism karma-yoga or the yoga of action. In Tilak's opinion, the Bhagavad Gita provided a strong justification of activism. However, this conflicted with the mainstream exegesis of the text at the time which was dominated by renunciate views and the idea of acts purely for God.

This was represented by the two mainstream views at the time by Ramanuja and Adi Shankara. To find support for this philosophy, Tilak wrote his own interpretations of the relevant passages of the Gita and backed his views using Jnanadeva's commentary on the Gita, Ramanuja's critical commentary and his own translation of the Gita. Tilak was strongly opposed to liberal trends emerging in Pune such as women's rights and social reforms against untouchability.

Child bride Rukhmabai was married at the age of eleven but refused to go and live with her husband. The husband sued for restitution of conjugal rights, initially lost but appealed the decision. On 4 MarchJustice Farran, using interpretations of Hindu laws, ordered Rukhmabai to " go live with her husband or face six months of imprisonment ".

Rukhmabai responded that she would rather face imprisonment than obey the verdict. Her marriage was later dissolved by Queen Victoria. Inwhen an eleven-year-old Phulamani Bai died while having sexual intercourse with her much older husband, the Parsi social reformer Behramji Malabari supported the Age of Consent Act, to raise the age of a girl's eligibility for marriage.

Tilak opposed the Bill and said that the Parsis as well as the English had no jurisdiction over the Hindu religious matters. He blamed the girl for having "defective female organs" and questioned how the husband could be "persecuted diabolically for doing a harmless act". He called the girl one of those "dangerous freaks of nature".

He did not believe that Hindu women should get a modern education. Rather, he had a more conservative view, believing that women were meant to be homemakers who had to subordinate themselves to the needs of their husbands and children. Tilak and Swami Vivekananda had great mutual respect and esteem for each other. They met accidentally while travelling by train in and Tilak had Vivekananda as a guest in his house.

A person who was present there Basukakaheard that it was agreed between Vivekananda and Tilak that Tilak would work towards nationalism in the "political" arena, while Vivekananda would work for nationalism in the "religious" arena. When Vivekananda died at a young age, Tilak expressed great sorrow and paid tributes to him in the Kesari. Vivekananda, in short, had taken the work of keeping the banner of Advaita philosophy forever flying among all the nations of the world and made them realize the true greatness of Hindu religion and of the Hindu people.

He 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. Thousands of years ago, another saint, Shankaracharya, who, showed to the world the glory and greatness of Hinduism.

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At the fag of the 19th century, the second Shankaracharya is Vivekananda, who, showed to the world the glory of Hinduism. His work has yet to be completed. We have lost our glory, our independence, everything. Shahuthe ruler of the princely state of Kolhapur, had several conflicts with Tilak as the latter agreed with the Brahmins decision of Puranic rituals for the Marathas that were intended for Shudras.

Tilak even suggested that the Marathas should be "content" with the Shudra status assigned to them by the Brahmins. Tilak's newspapers, as well as the press in Kolhapur, criticized Shahu for his caste prejudice and his unreasoned hostility towards Brahmins. These included serious allegations such as sexual assaults by Shahu against four Brahmin women.

An English woman named Lady Minto was petitioned to help them. The agent of Shahu had blamed these allegations on the "troublesome brahmins". Tilak and another Brahmin suffered from the confiscation of estates by Shahu, the first during a quarrel between Shahu and the Shankaracharya of Sankareshwar and later in another issue. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was released from prison on 16 June He commented:.

The celebrations consisted of several days of processions, music, and food. They were organized by the means of subscriptions by neighbourhood, caste, or occupation. Students often would celebrate Hindu and national glory and address political issues; including patronage of Swadeshi goods. The project also had the objective of funding the reconstruction of the tomb Samadhi of Shivaji at Raigad Fort.

The events like the Ganapati festival and Shiv Jayanti were used by Tilak to build a national spirit beyond the circle of the educated elite in opposition to colonial rule.