This excerpt from ‘Kesari: Selected Essays’ by Bal Gangadhar Tilak, translated by Nadeem Khan & Yashodhan Parande, has been published with permission from Penguin Random House India.
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the central figures of the Indian nationalist movement. He upheld the concepts of Swadeshi, boycott of foreign goods and gave the slogan, ‘Swaraj is our ...