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Option 4 : Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The correct answer is Bal Gangadhar Tilak.
- Bal Gangadhar Tilak is also known as Lokmanya Tilak founded the Lathi Club.
- The Lathi club was organised to make the youth brave and to enable them to fight for the freedom of their country.
- He was the founder of the Deccan Education Society.
- He was one of the founders of the Fergusson College (1885) in Pune through the Deccan Education Society.
- He believed and gave slogan “Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it”.
- Tilak was stated as the “father of Indian unrest” according to the book “Indian Unrest” written by Valentine Chirol.
- He joined the Indian National Congress in 1890.
- His important books are-Gita Rahasya and Arctic Home of the Vedas.
- He was the part of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio of leaders with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra.
- He published two papers – Kesari in Marathi and Mahratta in English.
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