6_Glorious_Epochs_of_Indian_History

"fifH GLORIOUS EPeOH 467
THE POLITICAL MOVEMENTS IN INDIA
AFTER 1900
1122. At the end of 1900 or thereabouts terminated the
•era of loyalist political movement and began the one of
Lokmanya Tilak which might fittingly be called—though not
revolutionary—conducive to revolution. To this very period
were inextricably tied up in my very childhood from the time
•of the martyrs, Chaphekar's sally at the British, my hearts
^strings** and later on my whole life was dedicated to that
revolutionary activity. As such my life-history itself became
•an extensive chapter in the war of liberation against the
JEnglish. Naturally, whatever might be said about these
ination-wide political activities during this period, from the
point of view of Hindutwa, has already appeared in the
written part of my 'Autobiography' or will perhaps in the
•one which might be written hereafter. As such even when I
•was in my teens I began to come in closer contacts with
•almost all the elder reputed leaders of India in respect of
this independence movement.
1123. When I had been to England in my very young
•days I had come in contact with the eldest of the Indian
politicians of the time and the earliest founder of the loyalist
political front, namely Dadabhai Nawroji, in his eighties.
Why, there my rovolutionary party had to cross swords with
his British-loyalist party in our tug-of-war for the leadership
•of Indian political movement in England**. Next to him I had
•developed in England itself closer relations with the respected
staunch Bengali freedom fighters from amongst those belong­
ing to the generation following that of Dadabhai Nawroji,
like the late Shree Surendranath Bannerjee, Romeshchandra
Datta and others**. With most of the younger leaders of the
same period belonging to the staunch nationalist party
fighting vehemently against the loyalist front I had deve­
loped personal friendship and ideological kinship. With
the active political workers from Pandit Shyamji Krishan
Varma, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bipinchandra Pal, Right Honourable
•Gokhale and such other all-India figures to hundreds of the