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Bal Gangadhar Tilak battled for Indian freedom from British domination throughout his lengthy political career. Prior to Gandhi, he was the most well-known politician in India. He started a large-scale campaign for independence by focusing on religious and cultural revitalization. Tilak was a social conservative as well as a radical nationalist.After the Partition of Bengal, Tilak supported the Boycott and Swadeshi movements, which were part of Lord Curzon’s strategy to weaken the nationalist cause. The campaign included a social boycott of any Indian who used foreign items as well as a boycott of foreign products. The Swadeshi movement pushed people to buy goods created close to home. Domestic demand has to step in to fill the hole left by the boycott of foreign goods.Tilak claimed that the campaigns for swadeshi and boycott were two sides of the same coin. Tilak disagreed with Gopal Krishna Gokhale’s moderate viewpoints and was supported by other Indian nationalists in Bengal and Punjab, including Bipin Chandra Pal.... Read more at: https://www.studyiq.com/articles/bal-gangadhar-tilak/