Fakir Mohan Senāpati#Fakir
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#Fakir
Fakir Mohan Senāpati · 1843–1918
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Who this is
Nationalism — journalist, agitator, and the inventor of Indian mass politics; also a self-taught Vedic scholar and philosopher of the Gītā.
“Two generations of educated Indians had asked the British for reforms in polished English. Tilak turned around, faced his own people in their own language, and asked them for the nation — and was twice sent to prison for the asking.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Freedom would not be granted to petitions; it would be taken by crowds. So he built the crowds — a cheap Marathi newspaper, public festivals, Home Rule leagues — and gave them one sentence to march behind.”
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