Tag: radical nationalists

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 was popularly known as ‘The Mother of the Indian Revolution’.

Tilak was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and ardent nationalist. He received his law degree in 1879. After finishing his education, he started teaching English and Mathematics at a private school in Poona. He developed the institution into a university college which aimed at educating the masses.

Tilak initiated Ganeshotsav and Shivaji Utsav in 1894 for national awakening. Shivaji Utsav was started on Fort Raigad. He used the traditional festivals to propagate nationalist ideas through songs and speeches.

In Kesari, Tilak defended the two young men and called for immediate swaraj. This was followed by the immediate arrest of Tilak by the British on charges of sedition. He was sentenced to a jail term from 1908 to 1914 in Mandalay in Burma. While n prison, he wrote `Gita Rahasya', a treatise on the Bhagavadgita.