INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Q. “There was only one genuine extremist in India and that was Mr. Tilak”Who among the following had made this remark in context with Bal Gangadhar Tilak? Notes: Edwin Samuel Montagu served the post of the Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bal Gangadhar Tilak, commonly known as Lokamanya Tilak was a leader of the Indian independence movement and belonged to the extremist faction. He was also called the ‘Father of Indian Unrest’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Following the Partition of Bengal, which was a strategy set out by Lord Curzon to weaken the nationalist movement, Tilak encouraged the Swadeshi movement and the Boycott movement. The movement consisted of the boycott of foreign goods and also the social boycott of any Indian who used foreign goods.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bal Gangadhar Tilak criticised the declaration as “unworthy and disappointing-a sunless dawn".

Detailed explanation-5: -Tilak started the Ganpati festival to spread and propagate nationalist ideas through songs and speeches. He started two newspapers, Kesari and Bal Gangadhar Tilak Mahratta, in which he preached nationalist ideas among the people. He also wrote two books, Gita Rahasya and The Arctic Home of the Vedas.