UPSC History Arts and Cultural Movements Question Bank Persons Miscellaneous

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    Who said, "Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it"?

    A)  Gopal Krishna Gokhale

    B)  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

    C)  Bipin Chandra Pal

    D)  Mahatma Gandhi  

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

     Bal Gangadhar Tilak attacked the British through his Weekes, the Mahratta and the Kesari. He was jailed twice by the British for his nationalist activities and in 1908 deported to Mandalay for six years. He set up the Home Rule League in 1916 at Poona and declared ''Swaraj is my birth right and I shall have it."


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