Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak July 1856 August 1920, born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. He was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement. The British colonial authorities called him Father of the Indian unrest. He was also conferred with the honorary title of Lokmanya, which literally means accepted by the people .
Tilak was born in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family in Ratnagiri, headquarters of the eponymous district of presentday Maharashtra onJuly 1856. His ancestral village was Chikhali. His father, Gangadhar Tilak was a school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar who died when Tilak was sixteen. Tilak graduated from Deccan College, Pune in 1877. Tilak was amongst one of the first generation of Indians to receive a college education. In 1871 Tilak was married to Tapibai when he was sixteen before few months of his fathers death. After marriage, her name was changed to Satyabhamabai. He obtained his matriculation in 1872. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts in first class in Mathematics from Deccan College of Pune in 1877. In 1879 he obtained his LL.B degree from Government Law College . He had left M.A. midway to join the L.L.B course instead. After graduating, Tilak started teaching mathematics at a private school in Pune. Later due to ideological differences with the colleagues in the new sch
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