Bal Gangadhar Tilak, a prominent leader in India's struggle for independence, played a pivotal role in transforming Ganesh Chaturthi from a private religious observance into a powerful public ...

Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as Vinayak Chaturthi ... culminate with the Ganpati Visarjan on September 28. In the 1890s, as Tilak pondered ways to unite the common people, he recognized the ...

Ganesh Chaturthi was being celebrated in homes and small communities but Lokmanya Tilak made it into a big event with public Ganesh Utsav Pandals. Bal Gangadhar Tilak made the festival a ...

Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated for 10 days across India. The festival is hugely popular in Maharashtra, where in the early years of twentieth century, freedom fighter Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak ...

Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a radical ... opinion with liberals of his own time like Gopal Krishna Gokhale and Gopal Ganesh Agarkar. However, the touching eulogies he wrote on these two clearly ...

Ganpati Bappa is in Lucknow till September,1. Yes! Ganesh Chaturthi, owing its universal charm due to the efforts of Bal Gangadhar Tilak during the freedom struggle is being celebrated with aplomb.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak in 1893 started Ganesh Chaturthi to bring people together and fight against Britishers who were ruling India from over 200 years. Millions of people in Mumbai and across India ...

The public celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi was started by Bal Gangadhar Tilak in Pune in 1893, while it is unknown when or how it was celebrated first. He laid the foundation of Ganeshotsav at the ...

Ganesh Chaturthi 2023, Mumbai’s favourite festival ... which is the oldest one in Mumbai, started after Bal Gangadhar Tilak made a call for it in 1893. There is more to the history of this ...

Ganesh Chaturthi: Ganesha idol ... of the festival in Maharashtra dates back to the 1890s when the nationalist leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak and others decided to use it to mobilise the masses.

The celebrations were transformed and Ganesh Chaturthi turned into a public event during the freedom movement by leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak. They saw the festival as an opportunity to unite ...