Bal Gangadhar Tilak Quotes

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The Vedic hymns were sung in post glacial times (8,000BC) by poets who had inherited their knowledge or contents thereof from their antediluvian forefathers.

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It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

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If God is put up with untouchability, I will not call him God

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It is true that lack of rain causes famine but it is also true that the people of India have not the strength to fight the evil. The poverty of India is wholly due to the present rule. India is being bled till only the skeleton remains…all the vitality of the people is being sapped and we are left in an emaciated state of slavery.

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The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

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In the early geological ages, when the Alps were low and the Himalayas not yet upheaved... from geological evidence of fossil and fauna, we find that an equitable climate and uniform climate prevailed over the whole surface of the globe. It is now conclusively proved that before the advent of glacial and inter-glacial periods a luxurious forest vegetation... flourished in the high latitude of the polar regions where the Sun goes below the horizon from November till March, thus showing that a warm climate prevailed in the Arctic regions in those days

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If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

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Progress is implied in independence. Without self-government neither industrial progress is possible, nor the educational scheme will be useful to the nation…To make efforts for India's freedom is more important than social reforms.

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The curriculum of the girl's school should be vernacular, needle work and sanitation... teaching women amounted to loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanising impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life... hurt the sentiments of the Hindus…teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate.

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... for destroying the harmony in the villages by interfering on behalf of the peasants and betraying the money lender.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak