CHAPTER III

THE EXTREMIST

The custom of garlanding—The fortress of Singarh—Mr. Tilak—Religion and scholarship—Theory of the Vedas—His past history—Breach at Nagpur—His statement of his party’s aims and methods—“Self-reliance, not mendicancy”—The boycott—Growth of Indian unity—Quotations from Mr. Tilak’s speeches—His arrest and sentence in 1908 62