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Because of the efforts and sacrifices made by Assertive leaders that the Partition of Bengal was annulled in 1911. This gave fresh self-confidence to Indian Nationalists.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak is known as the father of the Assertive Nationalism. He played a leading role in popularizing the cult of patriotism and making the Congress movement broad-based.

Lala Lajpat Rai was popularly known as "Punjab Kesari" or "Sher-e-Punjab". He was an eminent lawyer, prolific writer, enlightened educator, social reformer and a staunch fighter against the British rule. He was born at Dhudike, Jagraon in Punjab.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born on 23 July 1856 at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. He published an article in his newspaper Kesari opposing Rand, the assistant collector of Pune's brutal methods of stopping the spread of plague. Later, Rand was killed and Tilak was charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment. When he emerged from the prison he was a national hero and earned the title of  "Lokmanya" which literally meant "Beloved leader of the People".

Bhikaji Cama was one the pioneers of India's struggle for independence. On August 21, 1907, an International Socialist Conference was being held at Stuttgart, a city in Germany. It was on this occasion that Bhikaji Rustom Cama unfurled the first version of the Indian national flag. She had been one of a small group who had helped design the flag, which represented different elements of the Indian nation and identity.

Khudiram Bose was a freedom fighter, who was one of the youngest revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. Khudiram and Prafulla Chaki were sent to Muzaffarpur, Bihar to assassinate Kingsford, the Calcutta Presidency Magistrate, and later, magistrate of Muzaffarpur, Bihar. He was sentenced to death for bombing which resulted in the deaths of 3 unrelated innocents: Mrs Kennedy, her daughter and a servant.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak earned the epithet of Lokamanya during the Home Rule movement. Home Rule Leagues were organizations established in April and September 1916 during WW I, by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and  Annie Besant. Many Indian revolutionaries suported the Britishers but Tilak and Besant considered this an opportunity to achieve independence from the British. Thus, they decided to organise a national alliance of leagues across India, specifically to demand Home Rule, or self-government.