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Deuskar : Sakhārām Ganesh, a Mahārāshtrian writer whose family had lived long in Bengal. An able writer in Bengali, he was author of Desher Katha, & the first person to use the word “Swaraj” (in his life of Shivaji). He was among the early writers in the revolutionary journal Yugāntar, & the chief organiser of “political festivals” in Bengal, like the Shivaji festival held in June 1906. He had “extended to Tilak a pressing invitation to attend the Shivaji coronation celebrations at Calcutta that year. Bengal leaders wanted Tilak’s guidance in what they had been planning & doing since the partition question had activised them.” [Karandikar:224-25]