“In India there was only one natural aggressive nationalist and he was Tilak.”

— Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Stated by Montague, Secretary of State for India.[Hunt, Frazier, Great Personalities, http://books.google.com/books?id=EgEZRS4xer0C&pg=PT153, 1931, New York Life Insurance Company, 153–]

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Indian independence activist 1856–1920

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