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SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017 DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU daily Praveen Davar sacrifices. Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, while Excelsior mongst the stalwarts of the unveiling a portrait of Lokmanya Established 1965 freedom strugglein the pre- 'The Father of India's Revolution' Tilak in Parliament on July 28, Gandhi era, the name of A then 33. Two other young defiant and representing the much action absorbed himself in reading, rations, largely aroused and sus- 1956 concluded his glowing tribute Founder Editor S.D. Rohmetra Lokmanya Tilak stands out as a Congressmen who were to become larger numbers of the lower middle in learning new things and in con- tained to by his own exertions and to Tilak thus: "It was not my priv- colossus for his supreme courage, his contemporaries also appeared classes as well as students and templating on the true message of sufferings, and his labours at last ilege to come into close contact sacrifice, selflessness and his his- on the Congress platform for the young men. The powerful agita- the Gita. A most fruitful result of bore fruit. The country could now with Tilak. When he was at the toric role in the early phase of the first time - Lala Lajpat Rai (34) and tion against the partition of Bengal this constant reading and reflection speak out and demand its birthright height of his career, I was away in Non-submission of UCs independence movement. Gopal Krishan Gokhale (33). had thrown up many able and was the Gita Rahasya. In this, without fear. The people had a far country, still a student. But Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born The Congress, since its birth in aggressive leaders there of this Tilak tried to show how the philos- become conscious of their rights; even there his voice and his story on-submission of Utilization Certificates or on July 23, 1856 at Ratnagiri in 1885, was dominated by the type, but the real symbol of the new ophy of the Gita helps to solve the their aspirations had assumed a reached us and fired our imagina- their delayed submission is normally consid- Maharashtra in a middle class fam- Moderates who had faith in British age was Bal Gangadhar Tilak from moral issues involved in every-day definite shape, and they realized tion. We early grew up under the ered as financial irregularity if we strictly inter- ily. Soon after his graduation Tilak N sense of justice and fairplay and Maharashtra. life. On June 8, 1914, Tilak was that a foreign bureaucracy cannot influence and were moulded by it. pret the financial rules. What is Utilization Certificate? developed a serious concern for the believed in constitutional and law- informed that his exile was over. be mended but must be ended. In a sense, India to the youth of that social and political problems of his ful methods of agitation. This, He was now 58, and his health was Now the time had surely come, time was what had been presented Let us be clear that UC is not something like policing day. He wanted to reform the sys- by Tilak, through what he said and the recipients of Government funding nor is it a stick however, dramatically changed broken, but his spirit was unbowed. Tilak said, to demand control of the tem of education introduced by the with Lord Curzon's decision to par- On his return to India, he resumed country's affairs. But if the demand what he wrote, and above all, what to beat the defaulter with as is general impression. British and started a society for tition of Bengal. The youth of his political activities with his usual for Swaraj was to be effective, it he suffered. That was the inheri- Submission of UCs for the expenditures incurred by a spread of education in India moved towards militant poli- zeal and thoroughness. must be made through a powerful tance that Gandhiji had to start his Maharashtra. But his restless mind tics and direct action. Alongwith According to Tilak's biogra- and organised body. The Home vast movements with. Ifthere had State Organization or an Autonomous body or author- not been that moulding of the could not remain limited to one Bipin Chander Pal and Lala Lajpat pher, D.V. Tahmankar, "the year Rule League was to be that body. It ity is an important financial exercise to assess the Indian people and India's imagina- field. He soon ventured into jour- Rai, Tilak seized the opportunity of 1916 was the most eventful in was founded on April 28, 1916 tion and India's youth by level of development reached and the portion of nalism and started a Marathi paper, disillusionment against the British Tilak's career. The early part of the with its headquarters in Pune. A Lokmanya, it would not have been development still pending. According to financial rules Kesari. He passionately wrote for and denounced the "political men- year saw the foundation of the similar Home Rule league was easy for the next step to be taken. reforming the Indian society. On dicancy" of the Moderates. The Home Rule League, its phenome- started by Annie Besant (who the a recipient agency is supposed to submit the UCs Thus in this historical panorama we the problem of untouchability he trio of Bal-Pal-Lal, alongwith nal success, the presentation of the following year became the first can see one great man after another within 18 months of the receipt of funding. Non-sub- wrote, "I would not recognize even Aurobindo Ghose, became popular public purse on Tilak's sixty-first woman President of INC) with its coming and performing acts of des- mission of UCs is infringement of financial rules and God if He said that untouchability as "Extremists", though they pre- birthday, and his legal victory in headquarters at Madras. Both the tiny and history which have cumu- was ordained by Him." While ferred to call themselves the last sedition of the Lucknow Home Rule Leagues supplemented naturally will call for necessary action. latively led to the achievement of advocating social reforms he Our State does not have a satisfactory record of "Nationalists" On June 24, 1903 a warrant of Congress, which marks the zenith each other. While Tilak confined in India's freedom. We meet here not turned the attention of the people to Tilak advocated a fourfold pro- arrest was served on Tilak in not only of Tilak's life, but also, activities to Bombay Presidency only to unveil the picture of this submission of UCs to the source wherefrom funding the political problem - liberation of gramme - of boycott, Swadeshi, Bombay. The historic trial of Tilak perhaps, of the history of the and Central Provinces, Annie has been received. This is despite the fact that great man, the Father of India's India from British rule. He began national education and swaraj. In on charges of sedition began on Congress. Tilak, who had previous- Besant concentrated her efforts in Revolution, but to remember him reminders are repeatedly sent by the funding agency. writing articles in the Kesari, 1905, he wrote: "History abundant- July 13. Tilak was convicted and ly borne a reputation for intransi- the rest of India. The Home Rule and to be inspired by him." Another dimension of this phenomenon is that not asserting every Indian's birth right ly proves that a subject people, deported to Mandalay in Burma gence in politics, now appears in Movement marked the beginning Lokmanya Tilak was the tallest to be free. This was a revolutionary however, helpless, can, by means where he was to spend the next the role of a constructive and con- of a new phase in India's struggle only the Government departments and organizations, of the leaders of his generation who doctrine to be preached in those of unity, courage and determina- years of his life. On hearing the ciliatory stateman. The days of for freedom. It placed before the prepared the nation for the trials even the autonomous bodies and authorities which days. This brought him into con- tion, overcome their haughty rulers verdict, Tilak defiantly said: All I fiery speeches and denunciations country a concrete scheme of self- and triumphs of the Gandhian era. receive financial support under Grant-in-Aid flict with the Empire and he was without resort to arms." In 1907, wish to say is that, in spite of the are over; a new phase of compro- government. The success of the On August 1, 1920, a day before scheme, too, fail to submit the UCs for the funds pro- convicted on charge of sedition in he declared: "We are not armed, verdict of the jury, I maintain that I mise and responsive co-operation Home Rule Movement made the Gandhiji launched the noncoopera- and there is no necessity of arms am innocent. There are higher begins. He is seen at his best at the British bureaucracy nervous and vided to them. It has to be understood that there are 1897. However, this conviction tion movement, Tilak passed away, proved to be a blessing in disguise either. We have a stronger weapon, powers that rule the destiny of Lucknow Congress which marks a they took all possible steps to thus marking the end of one and autonomous organizations which need to be partially from a provincial leader, Tilak a political weapon in boycott." things and it may be the will of definite stage in the political evolu- restrict the activities of Tilak and beginning of another era that cul- supported in order to run in the larger interests of the became a national leader.