Lokmanya Tilak

A royal physician and freedom fighter, Shrimant Bhausaheb Rangari inspired Lokmanya Tilak to turn Ganeshotsav into a festival that instilled nationalistic fervour among Indians to fight the British.

“Saddened by his failure to bring about Indian independence, he projected his desire for self-determination onto the Mexican people,”

The three dynamic leaders of Lokmanya Tilak, Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, who had been promoting self-reliance and opposing the monopoly of the British goods in India, famously came together as the Lal-Bal-Pal trio.

"Two kinds of the disease, and both deadly—Natives dying by Hundreds of Hunger—Overseers stealing the supplies."

If India successfully overthrew the British Raj on 15th August 1947, why did it wait for over two and a half years to become a Republic?