2024-07-23 Tue

“Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it”

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was born On This Day in 1856. He was a scholar, mathematician, philosopher, and nationalist who founded the Indian Home Rule League in 1914 and advocated the Lucknow Pact in 1916.

India Post issued a postage stamp to commemorate the Father of the Indian Revolution, who changed the flow of the Indian Freedom Struggle.

India Mint issued a 5 Rupees circulating coin on his 150th Birth Anniversary in 2007