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बाल गंगाधर तिलक
1856–1920
'लोकमान्य' — केसरी के संपादक, गरम दल के नेता, और 'स्वराज मेरा जन्मसिद्ध अधिकार है और मैं इसे लेकर रहूँगा' के उद्गाता। गणपति और शिवाजी उत्सवों से गढ़ी गई जन-राजनीति और राजद्रोह में छह साल मांडले की जेल — और 1891 के सहमति-आयु विधेयक के सबसे नामी भारतीय विरोधी भी।
बीच से सबसे दूर संस्कृति पर — पारंपरिक मानदंड की तरफ़।
ये कहाँ खड़े हैं
बाल गंगाधर तिलक सातों पैमानों पर, एक छोर से दूसरे छोर तक।
रिकॉर्ड, पैमाने दर पैमाने
हर जगह इस आधार पर तय हुई है कि क्या कहा और क्या किया गया — घोषणापत्र, क़ानून, सरकार चलाने का रिकॉर्ड — और उन्हीं सवालों पर परखी गई है जो यह क्विज़ पूछता है।
सबूत का हवाला अंग्रेज़ी में
The 1896-97 famine agitation is the one thing on this axis: Kesari told peasants that relief under the Famine Code and remission of land revenue were rights they could demand, not charity — while his own institution-building, the Deccan Education Society and Fergusson College, was voluntary
Swadeshi and the boycott of foreign goods after 1905 amount to protection of indigenous production against imported manufactures; ownership, planning and the state's economic role were not questions he addressed
Opposed Shahu Maharaj's 1902 Kolhapur order reserving half of state posts for non-Brahmins, and at the March 1918 Bombay untouchability conference spoke against untouchability but refused to sign the pledge others signed — against the Lucknow Pact of 1916, which he negotiated and which conceded separate electorates to Muslims
Amplified the Ganapati festival from 1893 and launched the Shivaji festival in 1895, turning both into vehicles of mass mobilisation through Hindu public religion, and grounded political action in scripture in Gita Rahasya (1915) — while the Lucknow Pact remained the basis of his Home Rule politics
Tried for sedition three times (1897, 1908, 1916) and transported to Mandalay for six years for what Kesari printed; press freedom and the right to agitate were the causes of his life, though he never disowned political violence outright
Opposed the Age of Consent Bill 1891 raising the age from ten to twelve, on the ground that a foreign state had no business reforming Hindu custom; broke with Agarkar over whether social reform should precede politics, and defended Vedic orthodoxy against Shahu's Vedokta challenge
The Congress-League scheme he negotiated in 1916 left most powers with autonomous provinces under a weak centre, and his Home Rule League was organised on linguistic lines — but the Centre-state argument as now conducted did not exist in his lifetime
और आप कहाँ खड़े हैं?
यही सवाल ख़ुद हल कीजिए और अपनी सात रीडिंग पाइए — उन्हीं पैमानों पर, जो आपने अभी पढ़े।
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