Question

In which place did Lokamanya Tilak serve a prison sentence for six years for conviction on charges of sedition?
1. Celluar Jail, Andamans
2. Yerwada Jail, Pune
3. Central Jail, Lahore
4. Mandalay Jail, Burma

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Mandalay Jail, Burma

The correct answer is Mandalay Jail Burma.

• On 30 April 1908, two Bengali youths, Prafulla Chaki and Khudiram Bose threw a bomb on a carriage at Muzzafarpur, to kill the Chief Presidency Magistrate Douglas Kingsford of Calcutta fame, but erroneously killed two women traveling in it. While Chaki committed suicide when caught, Bose was hanged. 
• Tilak, in his paper Kesari, defended the revolutionaries and called for immediate Swaraj or self-rule. The Government swiftly charged him with sedition. 
• The judge, Dinshaw D. Davar gave him a six years jail sentence to be served in Mandalay, Burma, and a fine of ₹1,000. Hence option 4 is correct.

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak, born Keshav Gangadhar Tilak, was an Indian nationalist, teacher, and independence activist. He was one-third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement.
• The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest". 
• Founder of the Deccan Education Society (1884) along with his associate Gopal Ganesh Agarkar and others.
• One of the founders of the Fergusson College (1885) in Pune through the Deccan Education Society.
• Slogan: Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it!
• The book ‘Indian Unrest’ written by Valentine Chirol, an English journalist, stated Tilak the ‘father of Indian unrest.
• Popularised the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in the Maharashtra region.
• Propounded the celebration of Shiv Jayanti on the birth anniversary of the monarch Chhatrapati Shivaji.
• Along with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, he was part of the Lal-Bal-Pal trio of leaders with extremist outlooks.