From Ganesh Utsav to Mass Movement: How Tilak’s ‘Lokmanya’ status faced desperate Communist propaganda

The rain-swept air of Pune in September 1893 witnessed an unprecedented political transformation. The auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, which had hitherto been celebrated as a private, domestic worship within individual Maharashtrian households, was transformed into a public and social festival through the extraordinary historical foresight of Bal Gangadhar Tilak. Defying the draconian British laws prohibiting public assembly, the Lokmanya chose the platform of the Ganesh festival to init

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