Q) Consider the following statements about Bal
Gangadhar
Tilak:

1.He defended
Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram
Bose, who
threw
a bomb on a carriage at
Muzzafarpur in
an attempt to kill the Chief Presidency Magistrate Douglas Kingsford
in
his paper
Kesari.

2.He
believed that there should be an armed revolt against the British instead of
Constitutional Agitations just like
Savarkar and Chapekar
Brothers

3.Recently
a two-day international webinar on the 100
th
birth anniversary of
B.G.Tilak was
organized

Which
among the above statements is/ are
correct?

A)1 and
2 Only

B)1
Only

C)2 and
3 Only

D)1, 2
and 3
 
ANSWER – OPTION B
 
Explanation – 
1. On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose, threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzzafarpur,
to kill the Chief Presidency Magistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta
fame, but erroneously killed two women traveling in it. While Chaki
committed suicide when caught, Bose was hanged. Tilak, in his paper Kesari, defended the revolutionaries and called for immediate Swaraj or self-rule. The Government swiftly charged him with sedition.
2. He believed that there should be an armed revolt against the British
instead of Constitutional Agitations This is also a wrong statement. Bal
Gangadhar Tilak was the first intellectual leader to understand the
importance of mass support and was the first true mass leader of India.
He had realized that constitutional agitation against British was
futile. But he also realized that India was ill prepared for an armed
revolt. This was the reason that he did not jump into the revolutionary
activities like Savarkar and Chapekar brothers. 
3. A two-day international webinar on the 100th death
anniversary
of the great Indian freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar
Tilak was organized by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. 

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