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THE ARCTIC HOME IN THE VEDAS

Being Also a New Key to the Interpretation of

Many Vedic Texts and Legends

Lokamanya Bâl Gangâdhar Tilak

The proprietor of the Kesari and the Mahratta newspapers,

The author of the Orion or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas,

The Gita Rahasya ( a Book on Hindu Philosophy ) etc., etc.

Publishers

Messrs. TILAK BROS

Gaikwar Wada

Poona City

1903

Balawant Ga پ g dhar ڥ i ٰ ak (July 23, 1856 - August 1, 1920), was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and

freedom fighter who was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as "Father

of the Indian unrest." Tilak sparked the fire for complete independence in Indian consciousness, and is

considered the father of Hindu nationalism as well.

“Self Rule is our birthright, and We shall have it!”

This famous quote of his is very popular and well-remembered in India even today. Reverently addressed as

Lokmanya (meaning "Beloved of the people" or "Revered by the world"), Tilak was a scholar of Indian history,

Sanskrit, Hinduism, mathematics and astronomy.

He was born on in a village chikhali, near Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, into a middle class Chitpavan Brahmin

family. Tilak had a divisive philosphy. He was among India's first generation of youth to receive a modern,

college education. After graduation, Tilak began teaching mathematics in a private school in Pune and later

became a journalist. He became a strong critic of the Western education system, feeling it demeaning to Indian

students and disrespectful to India's heritage. He organized the Deccan Education Society to improve the quality

of education for India's youth. He taught Mathematics at Fergusson College in Pune. Tilak founded the Marathi

daily Kesari (Lion) which fast became a popular reading for the common people of India. Tilak strongly

criticized the government for its brutality in suppression of free expression, especially in face of protests against

the division of Bengal in 1905, and for denigrating India's culture, its people and heritage. He demanded the

British immediately give the right to self-government to India's people.

Tilak joined the Indian National Congress in the 1890s, but soon fell into opposition of its liberal-moderate

attitude towards the fight for self-government.In 1891 Tilak opposed the Age of Consent bill introduced after

the death of a child bride from sexual injuries. The act raised the marriageable age of a child bride from 10 to 12

which was already 16 in Britain since 1885. This was one of the first significant reforms introduced by the

British since Indian rebellion of 1857. The Congress and other liberals whole-heartedly supported it but Tilak

raised a battle-cry terming it as 'Interference in Hindu Religion'. Since then he was seen as a hard-core Hindu

nationalist. When in 1897 bubonic plague spread from Bombay to Pune the Government became jittery and

Assistant Collector of Pune, Mr. Rand and his associates, employed extremely severe and brutal methods to

stop the spread of the disease by destroying even 'clean homes'. Even people who were not infected were carried

away and in some cases, the carriers even looted property of the affected people. When the authorities turned a

blind eye to all these excesses, furious Tilak took up people's cause by publishing inflammatory articles in his

paper Kesari, quoting Hindu Scripture Bhagwat Gita that no blame could be attached to anyone who killed an

oppressor without any thought of reward. Following this, on 27 June, Rand and his assistant were killed. Tilak

was charged with incitement to murder and sentenced to 18 months imprisonment. When he emerged from

prison he had become a national hero and adopted a new slogan 'Swaraj(Self-Rule)is my birth right and I will

have it'.

Tilak opposed the moderate views of Gopal Krishna Gokhale, and was supported by fellow Indian nationalists

Bipin Chandra Pal in Bengal and Lala Lajpat Rai in Punjab. They were referred to as the Lal-Bal-Pal

triumvirate. In 1907,the annual session of the Congress Party was held at Surat(Gujrat). Trouble broke out

between the moderate and the extremist factions of the party over the selection of the new president of the

Congress and the party split into the Garam Dal (Extremists), led by Tilak, Pal and Lajpat Rai, and the Naram

Dal (Moderates). Tilak as well as Gopal Krishna Gokhale regarded this as a 'catastrophe' for the national

movement and Tilak did his best to avoid it. But it was too late and older moderates were glad get rid of the

troublemakers(extremists). H.A.Wadya, one of the closest associate of Sir Pherozshah Mehta, wrote ' The union

of these men with the Congress is the union of a diseased limb to a healthy body and the only remedy is surgical

severence '.

On 30 April 1908 two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Kudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at

Muzzafurpur in order to kill a District Judge Douglass Kenford but erroneously killed some women travelling in

it. While Chaki committed suicide when caught, Bose was tried and hanged. British papers screamed for

vengeance and their shrill cries became even more insistent when Police raided and found a cache of arms at

Calcutta. But Tilak in his paper Kesari defended the revolutionaries and called for immediate Swaraj or Self-

rule. The Government swiftly arrested him for sedition. He asked a young Muhammad Ali Jinnah to represent

him. But the British judge convicted him and he was imprisoned from 1908 to 1914 in Mandalay, Burma.

Upon his release, Tilak re-united with his fellow nationalists and re-joined the Indian National Congress in

1916. He also helped found the All India Home Rule League in 1916-18 with Annie Besant and Muhammad Ali

Jinnah.

Tilak, who started his political life as a Maratha Protagonist, during his later part of life progressed into a fine

nationalist after his close association with Bengal nationalists following the partition of Bengal. When asked in

Calcutta whether he envisioned a Maratha type of government for Free India, Tilak replied that the Maratha

dominated Governments of 16th and 17th centuries were outmoded in 20th century and he wanted a genuine

federal system for Free India where every religion and race were equal partners. Only such a form of

Government would be able to safe-guard India's freedom he added

Tilak was a critic of Mahatma Gandhi's strategy of non-violent, civil disobedience. Although once considered

an extremist revolutionary, in his later years Tilak had considerably mellowed. He favored political dialogue

and discussions as a more effective way to obtain political freedom for India. His writings on Indian culture,

history and Hinduism spread a sense of heritage and pride amongst Indians for India's ancient civilization and

glory as a nation. Some consider Tilak as the spiritual and political leader of Mahatma Gandhi. But Gandhi

himself considered Gopal Krishna Gokhale, a contemporary of Tilak, as his political mentor. When Tilak died

in 1920, Gandhi paid his respects at his cremation in Bombay, along with 200,000 people. Gandhi called Tilak

"The Maker of Modern India" . Tilak is also today considered the father of Hindu Nationalism. He was the idol

of Indian revolutionary Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, who penned the political doctrine of Hindutva.

Later, in 1903, he wrote the much more speculative Arctic Home in the Vedas . In it he argued that the Vedas

could only have been composed in the Arctics, and the Aryan bards brought them south after the onset of the

last Ice age.

Tilak also authored 'Geetarahasya' - the analysis of 'Karmayoga' in the Bhagavadgita, which is known to be gist

of the Vedas and the Upanishads.

Other collections of his writings include:

The Hindu philosophy of life, ethics and religion (published in 1887).

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Vedic chronology and vedanga jyotisha.

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Letters of Lokamanya Tilak, edited by M. D. Vidwans.

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Selected documents of Lokamanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1880-1920, edited by Ravindra Kumar.

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Trial of Tilak.

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