Kolhapur Kolahpur : capital of the former princely state of Kolhapur, & also seat of the British Residency for the Deccan states in India. In 1949 Kolhapur state became part of the province of Bombay. It is presently a district of Maharashtra, & Kolhapur town the administrative headquarters of the district.
... one, let us say, who dare not look Truth in the face and speak out boldly what he thinks. It is not the one man whom the whole Hindu community in Western India delights to honour, from Peshawar to Kolhapur and from Bombay to our own borders; it is one who will not talk about Shivaji and Bhavani—only about Mahatmas. It is not the man who has suffered and denied Page 116 himself for his country's ...
... is to make any progress, if we are to show ourselves worthy of the self-government we claim, this strong-handed autocracy must itself be put down with the strong hand. As Mr. Tilak pointed out at Kolhapur, the object of the national movement is not to replace foreign autocrats by the Swadeshi article, but to replace an irresponsible bureaucracy by popular self-government. Page 253 The most ...
... and powerful expression of the political mind of Maharashtra. Mr. Tilak's career has counted three periods each of which had an imprisonment for its culminating point. His first imprisonment in the Kolhapur case belongs to this first stage of self-development and development of the Maratha country for new ideas and activities and for the national future. The second period brought in a wider conception ...
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