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Bal Gangadhar Tilak
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“Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was Valentine Chirol, a Britisher, who gave Tilak the meaningful sobriquet ‘the father of Indian unrest”.... Lokmanya Tilak thundered “Swaraj is my birth-right and I will have it’ and blazed the path of Karma Yoga to achieve it.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tragic Story of Partition (1982) H.V. Sheshadri 4.
“Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor the educational scheme will be useful to the nation…To make efforts for India’s freedom is more important than social reforms.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The curriculum of the girl’s school should be vernacular, needlework and sanitation...teaching women amounted to the loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanizing impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt the sentiments of the Hindus…teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...for destroying the harmony in the villages by interfering on behalf of the peasants and betraying the moneylender.”
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Recorded in: His Criticism and opposition to the Agriculturist Relief Act 1879 and the reformist movement launched by others. Bal Gangadhar Tilak: Popular Readings, Page=15.
“The compilation of hymns into Sanhitas also appears to be a work of the early part of this period.”
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Recorded in: The Arctic Home in the Vedas” on dating of the Vedas to 3000 to 1400 BC
“...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity.”
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Recorded in: The Arctic Home in the Vedas” on dating of the Vedas to 3000 to 1400 BC
“It has been shown that Vedic religion and worship are both interglacial; and though that we can not trace their ultimate origin yet the Arctic character of the Vedic deities fully proves that the powers of nature represented by them has been already clothed with divine attributives by the primitive Aryans in their original home round about the North Pole, or the Meru of the Puranas.”
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Recorded in: The Arctic Home in the Vedas” on dating of the Vedas to 3000 to 1400 BC
“The Vedic hymns were sung in post glacial times (8,000BC) by poets who had inherited their knowledge or contents thereof from their antediluvian forefathers.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the early geological ages, when the Alps were low and the Himalayas not yet upheaved... from geological evidence of fossil and fauna, we find that an equitable climate and uniform climate prevailed over the whole surface of the globe. It is now conclusively proved that before the advent of glacial and interglacial periods luxurious forest vegetation... flourished in the high latitude of the polar regions where the Sun goes below the horizon from November till March, thus showing that a warm climate prevailed in the Arctic regions in those days”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lack of rain indeed causes famine but it is also true that the people of India have not the strength to fight evil. The poverty of India is wholly due to the present rule. India is being bled till only the skeleton remains…all the vitality of the people is being sapped and we are left in an emaciated state of slavery.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been said, gentlemen, by some that we Hindus have yielded too much to our Mohammedan brethren. I am sure I represent the sense of the Hindu community all over India when I say that we could not have yielded too much. I would not care if the rights of self-government are granted to the Mohammedan community only... When we have to fight against a third party — it is a very important thing that we stand on this platform united, united in race, united in religion, united as regards all different shades of political creed.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can never give the Musalmans too much.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tilak's reply when some Hindus complained that they were giving too much to the Musalmans. Related by Muhammad Ali about the Lucknow talks: Md. Ali: speech at the annual session of Congress at Coconada in 1923 quoted in…
“Belief in the Vedas, many means, no strict rule for worship: these are the features of the Hindu religion.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tilak reproduced in V.D. Savarkar: Hindutva, and quoted in Elst, Koenraad (2002). Who is a Hindu?: Hindu revivalist views of Animism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and other offshoots of Hinduism. ISBN 978-8185990743
“(A non-Hindu) may not perhaps go with me to the same temple to pray to God, perhaps there may be no intermarriage and inter-dining between him and me. All these are minor questions. But, if a man is exerting himself for the good of India, and takes measures in that direction, I do not consider him an alien.”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bal Gangadhar Tilak: His Writings and Speeches (1922), p. 142. As quoted in "Lokmanya Tilak Isn’t A ‘Hindutva Hero’. His Hinduism Was Inclusive", The Quint, 31 Jul 2020.
“To use the words of Max Muller, we must, in such cases, 'keep our preconceived notions of what people call primitive humanity in abeyance for a time'".”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
“Such consistent refusal to consider a greater antiquity for the Vedic texts, and to suggest a foreign origin whenever the occasion presents itself, has been a source of puzzlement and resentment for many Indian scholars such as Tilak (n.d.a), who "cannot understand why scholars should hesitate to assign the Vedic works to the same period of antiquity which they allow to the Chinese and the Egyptians" (56).”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Bryant, E. F. (2001). The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : the Indo-Aryan migration debate. Oxford University Press. chapter 12
“Shatham prati shaathyam, ‘Wickedness to the wicked.’... Meet boldness with boldness; impertinence by impertinence must be met; villainy by villainy must be met.... Therefore, my friend, wise men have everywhere mentioned exceptions to the principle of forgiveness.... has made it clear that this rule should not be followed in a society, where there do not exist persons who follow the other religious principle, namely, others should not cause harm to us, which is the corollary from this first principle.... Therefore, just as the principle of non-violence is not violated by killing an evil-doer, so also the principle of self-identification [of seeing the same, Eternal Self in all] or of non-enmity, which is observed by saints, is in no way affected by giving condign punishment to evil-doers.... And the summary of the entire teaching of the Gita is that: even the most horrible warfare which may be carried on in these circumstances, with an equable frame of mind, is righteous and meritorious.... Religion and morality consist in behaving towards others in the same way as they behave towards us; one must behave deceitfully towards deceitful persons, and in a saintly way towards saintly persons.... But if the evilness of the evil-doers is not circumvented by such saintly actions, or, if the counsel of peacefulness and propriety is not acceptable to such evil-doers, then according to the principle kantakenaiva kantakam (that is, “take out a thorn by a thorn”), it becomes necessary to take out by a needle, that is by an iron thorn, if not by an ordinary thorn, that thorn which will not come out with poultices, because under any circumstances, punishing evil-doers in the interests of general welfare, as was done by the Blessed Lord, is the first duty of saints from the point of view of Ethics.... I give to them reward in the same manner and to the same extent that they worship Me.’ ‘In the same way, no one calls the Judge, who directs the execution of a criminal, the enemy of the criminal…’”
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source