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What means did Bal Gangadhar Tilak employ to arouse nationalistic passions?
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Tilak adopted many methods to carry the agitation to the masses and to arouse nationalistic passions in the masses.
- In 1893, he started the celebration of the Ganapati festival in Maharashtra.
- Satisfied with the success of the festival, he revived the Shivaji festival in 1895.
- The object was to instil in the masses a spirit of discipline and Patriotism.
- Tilak is known for organising 'Akharas' (places for wrestling) and 'Lathi Clubs' in Maharashtra to make the youths brave to defy the British Raj.
- In 1896, he led a No-rent Campaign. He asked the cultivators not to pay land-revenue because of famine conditions in the Deccan.
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