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Bal Gangadhar Tilak Quotes

1856–1920 India

Bal Gangadhar Tilak (23 July 1856 – 1 August 1920), born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was a popular leader of the people who fought for Indian independence during the Indian Independence Movement. He was a journalist, teacher, social reformer, playwright, and lawyer.

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Also known as: B. G. Tilak, Lokmanya Tilak, Tilak

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Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!

Belief in the Vedas, many means, no strict rule for worship: these are the features of the Hindu religion.

The compilation of hymns into Sanhitas also appears to be a work of the early part of this period.

You can never give the Musalmans too much.

Freedom is my birthright. I must have it.

If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God.

"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'".

...for destroying the harmony in the villages by interfering on behalf of the peasants and betraying the moneylender.

...its ultimate origin is still lost in geological antiquity.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

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.

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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