Bal Gangadhar Tilak ( 1856-1920)

He was born in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra in 1856 to Shri Gangadhar Tilak a famous school teacher and a Sanskrit scholar. He joined the Anglo Vernacular school in Pune and was among the first generation of Indians to receive a college education. He graduated from the Deccan College in Pune and later on got a LL.B. degree and took up teaching mathematics in a private school in Pune.


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