{"id":13612,"date":"2023-08-01T09:01:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T03:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13612"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T00:17:50","slug":"lokmanya-tilak-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lokmanya-tilak-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lokmanya Tilak National Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Lokmanya Tilak National Award:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The award was <strong>instituted in 1983 by the Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This award is <strong>given every year on 1st August<\/strong>, the <strong>death anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak,<\/strong> to persons who have made <strong>remarkable and extraordinary contributions, working for the progress and development of the nation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Who was Lokmanya Tilak?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bal Gangadhar Tilak<\/strong>, commonly known as Lokmanya Tilak, was a prominent <strong>Indian nationalist,<\/strong> <strong>freedom fighter<\/strong>, <strong>social reformer<\/strong>, and <strong>political leader<\/strong> during the Indian independence movement.<\/li>\n<li>He was one of the prime architects of modern India and probably the <strong>strongest advocate of Swaraj or Self Rule for India.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He <strong>is known for his slogan, &#8220;Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He was <strong>born as Keshav Gangadhar Tilak<\/strong> and his <strong>followers bequeathed upon him the title of \u2018Lokmanya\u2019,<\/strong> meaning he who is revered by the people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Extremist<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>He was considered a <strong>radical Nationalist<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>British Government termed him the<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Father of Indian Unrest&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organisations<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>He <strong>joined the Indian National Congress<\/strong> Party <strong>in the year 1890<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>He also <strong>helped found the All India Home Rule League<\/strong> in 1916\u201318 with G. S. Khaparde and Annie Besant.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tilak started his Home Rule League in Maharashtra, Central Provinces, and Karnataka and Berar region<\/strong>. Besant&#8217;s League was active in the rest part of India. It aimed to advocate for self-rule and <strong>raise public awareness about India&#8217;s right to govern itself.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Literary works:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Tilak was a prolific writer and journalist. He <strong>used his newspaper<\/strong>, &#8220;<strong>Kesari&#8221; (meaning Lion) in Marathi and later &#8220;Maratha&#8221; in English to disseminate nationalist ideas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Some of his notable literary works include &#8220;<strong>The Arctic Home in the Vedas,&#8221;<\/strong> where he presented his theory that the Vedas originated in the Arctic region, and &#8220;<strong>Shrimad Bhagavad Gita Rahasya<\/strong>,&#8221; an interpretation of the Bhagavad Gita from a nationalist perspective.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Educationist<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Tilak believed in the power of education and <strong>established the Deccan Education Society in Pune in 1884.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>society founded Fergusson College<\/strong> <strong>and the New English School,<\/strong> which played crucial roles in promoting modern education in Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tilak taught mathematics at Fergusson College.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Reform<\/strong>: Lokmanya Tilak was also an advocate of social reform. He actively <strong>supported the eradication of social evils like untouchability and child marriage and promoted education for women.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lal-Bal-Pal<\/strong>: He had popular leaders such as <strong>Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai as his political companion<\/strong>s, and the <strong>three were popularly known as the \u2018Lal-Bal-Pal triumvirate<\/strong>.\u2019<\/li>\n<li><strong>Imprisonments<\/strong>: He was <strong>arrested for sedition on multiple occasions<\/strong>. His most <strong>prolonged incarceration lasted from 1908 to 1914,<\/strong> during which he <strong>wrote the famous book &#8220;Gita Rahasya&#8221; <\/strong>(The Secret of the Bhagavad Gita).<\/li>\n<li>In 1916 <strong>he concluded the Lucknow Pact with Mohammed Ali Jinnah<\/strong>, which provided <strong>for Hindu-Muslim unity in the nationalist struggle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Home Rule League?<\/h3>\n<p>The Home Rule League was a political movement in British India that campaigned for self-government for India. It was founded in 1916 by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Annie Besant. The Home Rule League was the first mass-based political movement in India, and it played a significant role in the Indian independence movement. The Home Rule League was modeled on the Irish Home Rule League, which had campaigned for self-government for Ireland. The Home Rule League was successful in mobilising Indian public opinion in favour of self-government. The Home Rule League was dissolved in 1920, but its legacy continued to inspire the Indian independence movement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=PM-Narendra-Modi-to-be-conferred-Lokmanya-Tilak-National-Award-in-Pune-tomorrow&amp;id=465199#:~:text=The%20award%20was%20instituted%20in,and%20development%20of%20the%20nation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM Narendra Modi to be conferred Lokmanya Tilak National Award in Pune tomorrow<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lokmanya Tilak National Award was instituted in 1983 by the Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}