PRIMARY DOSSIER № 03 / 10
TILAK, B. G.
NATIONALIST LEADER & EDITOR · KESARI & MAHRATTA
Early radical leader who popularized the slogan 'Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it,' prosecuted repeatedly by the British under Section 124A (Sedition) and exiled to Mandalay Prison.
PRIMARY INVESTIGATION & FINDINGS
Authored scathing editorial critiques of British plague mismanagement in Pune (1897) in his Marathi newspaper <em>Kesari</em>, resulting in his landmark 18-month imprisonment for sedition.
Spearheaded the Swadeshi (indigenous goods) and Boycott movement following the 1905 Partition of Bengal, mobilizing working-class millworkers in Bombay.
Sentenced in 1908 to six years of hard labor in Mandalay Prison (Burma) for defending revolutionaries Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code.
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