Tilak, The Empire's Biggest Enemy - Times of India
Times of India advised govt to slap sedition charges against Tilak "whatever he may say, his disaffection for the government is not superficial and temporary but very deep and of a permanent nature" - TOI
Morning Post characterized him as ‘one of the most dangerous forces in India’ who ‘for years’ had used his journal ‘to spread the basest fabrications concerning British officials’.
Gangadhar Tilak … presided at the Shivaji Accession celebration and made a speech in which he counselled the murder of Europeans and (said)that the mlecchas – that was, the British – had no charter from God to rule India?’
At 10 p.m. on 27 July 1897, there was a knock at his lawyer friend Daji abaji Khare’s door, where Tilak was staying.
The police had come for his guest. Late in the night, Tilak was arrested on charges of sedition for the comments he had made at the Shivaji festival in Poona, which were published in the Kesari on 15 June.
He was taken straight to the Esplanade Police Court chowkie, where he was kept in a room till the next morning.
Khare, a lawyer, reached the residence of the chief presidency magistrate before midnight to seek bail for Tilak, but it was declined.
From there, Khare went to the police court chowkie to tell his friend about the rejection of bail.
According to a story since widely circulated, Tilak was fast asleep and had to be woken up.
When Khare told him that the magistrate had been a disappointment, Tilak retorted, ‘Why wake me up for this? You could have told me in the morning.’
