Bal Gangadhar Tilak vs Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Gopal Krishna Gokhale were two early nationalists who led the freedom struggle in their own ways. Both had the same desire of making India a free state but their way of working were different.

Active Struggle vs Constitutional Methods of Agitation

  • Bal Gangadhar Tilak started organising Shivaji festival and Ganesh festival to inculcate nationalist feelings among the public. He published newspapers like ‘Maharatta’ and ‘Kesari’ to politically educate people.
  • He wanted to take out the Swadeshi movement beyond Bengal and make it a mass-based movement demanding ‘Purna Swaraj’ from the British.
  • Due to his extremist approach, he was ....
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