Mandalay : a city on the Irrawaddy River, former capital (now chief town) of Upper Burma, & headquarters of Mandalay district & division. Tilak was interned in Mandalay Jail for six years, from 1908 to 1914. At that time Burma was a part of British India.
... Lajpat Rai is to be sent not to the Andamans but to Mandalay. It says:—"Soon after his arrest, it was reported widely that Lala Lajpat Rai was going to be taken to the Page 417 Andamans. But instead of being sent to that penal settlement, he has been conveyed as a State prisoner to Mandalay in Upper Burma where there is a large fort. Mandalay is certainly a far better place than the Andamans... occasion, seems immaterial. Of course it needs no ghost to tell us that Mandalay is not the Andamans. But are not both places equally suited to the requirements of the Government? It was not the intention of the Government to remove Lajpat Rai to a particular place with a view to subject him to a particular kind of climate. In Mandalay in Upper Burma "where there is a large fort", the Punjab leader will... of his labours and thus attempt to put a stop to his career of usefulness—call it political activity if you like. The first object the Government has succeeded in accomplishing by removing him to Mandalay. And it would have been equally accomplished by removing him to the Andamans. But the second object cannot be accomplished by such a removal. If the people are ready to carry on his work—which since ...
... prisoner, and Tilak was in deportation in Mandalay. Absence of the top- most leaders and an intensification of the repressive measures by the Government forced the nationalist fire to sink. But the fire did not die out; it smouldered on, and the secret revolutionary activities grew apace, sporadic but violent, till 1914, when Tilak returned from Mandalay and joined hands with Annie Beasant, and gave... incident recorded by Bapat in his Marathi book. Reminiscences of Tilak, clearly shows: "In 1917 Ranade (one of the eminent philosophers of his time) saw Tilak who had been released from the Mandalay 61. Nevinson speaks of Tilak's shrewd political judgment and Sri Aurobindo's spiritual elevation. 62. Lokamanya Tilak, by G.P. Pradhan and A.K. Bhagwat. Page 206 ... Prof. Haridas Mukherjee and Uma Mukherjee. Page 212 and forced him to turn an uncompromising non-cooperator. He showed the same flexibility as Tilak had done on his return from the Mandalay prison.75 The great political issue of 1920 was whether the Congress leaders should seek election to the Legislative Councils according to the provisions of the 1919 reforms. Gandhiji was willing ...
... Jotindranath Chaudhuri, and some of the older leaders in the Mofussil are the most influential members, which engineered a compromise in the absence of the Nationalist leaders. Sj. Tilak was a prisoner in Mandalay jail, Sj. Aurobindo Ghose under trial at Alipur, Sj. Khaparde and Sj. Bipin Chandra Pal absent in England. The compromise was reluctantly accepted by many of the Nationalists present,—as we have ...
... been passed, it is only applied to a single district in the whole of India. The protests of Moderate politicians against the deportations and their urgent pleas for the release of the prisoners in Mandalay are brushed aside with contempt, yet the very next news is that Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh are released and on their way homeward. Simla, vowing it will ne'er consent, has consented. On the other hand ...
... remarkable Gita Rahasya brings out several references from the ancient scriptures. We may mention en passant that Tilak wrote his commentary on the Gita when he was given “compulsory rest” in Mandalay Jail from 1908 to 1914. There is an inspired directness and clarity in his style, indicating a wide-ranging mind and a will that affirms itself in life. Referring to the inverted tree of the first ...
... Besant's Home Rule Movement had run its course and Gandhiji had yet to assume his position of influence and command over the Congress. Tilak had returned to India after his long incarceration in Mandalay and was trying to revive and reorganise the Nationalist forces. Late in 1919 he asked one of his lieutenants, Joseph Baptista, to request Sri Aurobindo to accept the editorship of a paper they proposed ...
... Strange, indeed, are the ironies concocted by the Time-Spirit. An alien bureaucracy sends a patriot to prison and he turns it, as Sri Aurobindo did at Alipur, into a Temple of Sadhana; or, like Tilak at Mandalay, he finds fulfilment in the composition of a masterly commentary, the Gita Rahasya; or he opens himself, as Jawaharlal Nehru did in The Discovery of India, to the influence of the winding movement ...
... human power and more than human management had arranged the singular sequence of events: Sri Aurobindo's withdrawal to Pondicherry in 191O, Gandhiji's coming to India in 1914, the return of Tilak from Mandalay, the launching of the Home Rule Movement by Besant and Tilak, the "great shadow" of the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, the rising new tempo of repression and the Mahatma's unruffled defiance of the ...
... renewal of intense political activity. This was due to the efforts of two leaders, Annie Besant and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. In 1914, after six years detention in the Mandalay jail, Tilak was released. His solitary detention in Mandalay had left a deep imprint on Tilak's personality. Tilak who was always a practical politician emerged a more cautious man. As seen earlier, the Congress had split in 1907 ...
... the people, and * Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who had been sentenced to six years' imprisonment for his articles in the Kesari commenting on the Muzzaferpore bomb-outrage, was then a prisoner at Mandalay in Burma. * On 11 December 1908, Minto had issued orders for the arrest and deportation of Subodh Mullick, Krishna Kumar Mitra, Manoranjan Guhathakurta, Shyamsundar Chakravarti, Aswini Kumar... his people. Page 342 It is not in vain that Krishna Kumar Mitra* has been taken from us and is rotting in Agra jail. It is not in vain that all Maharashtra mourns for Tilak at Mandalay. It is He, not any other, who has taken them and his ways are not the ways of men... . 20 Great as Aswini Kumar Dutt and Tilak were, even without them - or without others who might be taken ...
... exhibition of British fair-play and generosity. But if the man was such a poor and inconsiderable specimen, how is it that you have treated him as if he were a second Napoleon, thinking even distant Mandalay not remote enough or strong enough to hold the mighty rebel? All this foul-mouthed brutality is a measure of the extraordinary panic into which the ruling race has fallen as the result of what the ...
... Aswini Kumar has been taken from his people. It is not in vain that Krishna Kumar Mitra has been taken from us and is rotting in Agra Jail. It is not in vain that all Maharashtra mourns for Tilak at Mandalay. It is He, not any other, who has taken them and His ways are not the ways of men, but He is all-wise. He knows better than we do what is needful for us. He has taken Aswini Kumar Dutta away from ...
... In an interview with the representative of an Indian journal Mr. Bal Gangadhar Tilak has given a brief account of the work on the Gita which he has been writing during his six years' internment in Mandalay. He begins:— "You know that the Gita is regarded generally as a book inculcating quietistic Vedanta or Bhakti. For myself, I have always regarded it as a work expounding the principles of human ...
... persecuted. And, in fact, by July 1908 Tilak was charged with 'exciting disloyalty and bringing feelings of enmity towards the Government'. He was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and sent to Mandalay jail in Burma. And then the Government focussed their entire attention on Sri Aurobindo. But Sri Aurobindo also knew that repression would not extinguish the flame of independence which had now been ...
... life sentence was imposed on VOC in July 1907, Tilak himself was jailed. While VOC languished in prison for the next four and a half years (on a reduced sentence on appeal) Tilak was transported to Mandalay (Burma). Not surprisingly, the two lost touch during their imprisonment. Barely a few days after Tilak's release, VOC wrote from his Mylapore home on 19 June 1914. Addressing Tilak as 'Respected ...
... this man will keep his head erect." This was an anticipation of the greatness of Tilak's compelling eminence after the first suppression of the nationalist movement and his solitary confinement at Mandalay. In after-years, Sri Aurobindo testified to Barin's "very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came ...
... were the Ghose brothers; especially the "founder of the violence section of the Bengali revolutionary party," Babu Arabindo Ghose. Bal Gangadhar Tilak, after a summary trial, was deported in July to Mandalay in Burma to suffer a prolonged solitary confinement. He was released only in June 1914. Bengal, Maharashtra, Punjab, no corner of the country was spared the panic reaction of the government against ...
... destiny of things, and, it may be the will of Providence that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free." He was given a sentence of six years' transportation to Mandalay in Burma, and a fine of Rs. 1000. In 1916 he was prosecuted once again for sedition, but was acquitted. Tilak had accepted the leadership of the Nationalists. After the debacle of the Congress ...
... list of the delegates...." This took place after the Alipore Bomb Case was over, and the other Page 388 Nationalist leaders, like Tilak, were exiled and languishing in prison in Mandalay or elsewhere. "Nothing daunted, Sri Aurobindo begun his vigorous campaign to defeat the moderates hollow and capture the entire machinery ..., chucked out the age-limit of twenty-one for delegates ...
... recluse habits." When the British saw the fire of Nationalism taking hold of Punjab they hastened to stamp it out. On 9 May 1907, Lala Lajpat Rai, the Lion of Punjab, was arrested and deported to Mandalay in Burma, along with Ajit Singh. The news reached Calcutta at about midnight. In a couple of hours the Bande Mataram was to go to press. Sri Aurobindo was roused from his sleep and given the news ...
... known 'terrorists' like Barin, Upen, Ullaskar etc., had been banished for life to the Andamans. Other 'troublemakers' had been safely put behind bars. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was rotting in a jail in Mandalay (Burma). Bepin Pal had left India. As 'leaders' only men like G. K. Gokhale and Pherozshah Mehta were acting out like puppets the part assigned to them by the wily British. India was more or less ...
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