Dear Sanjeev Even before Tilak we had a real master of Reform in India. His name was Ram Mohan Roy. Here is one incident in his life
In about 1803 Roy was going in his 'palki' on a rural road and happened to pass the English District Commissioner of the District. At that time Indians were supposed to get out of their palkis and do 'salaam' to any Englishman in their sight. When Roy deliberately neglected to do so, the Englishman called him a 'bloody blackie' (or something similar) whereupon Roy got out of his palki and the 2 gentlemen had a heated discussion on the side of the road. Here is the good part: Roy sent a Petition to the Governor General of India - who sought a reply from his Commissioner - and the Comissioner was admonished (all within 2 weeks) . Since that day Bengalis (it happened in Bengal) stopped giving salaam(i) to English officers, used their newly acquired knowledge of English to enforce governance, and when all that stopped working (Bengalis really like to stop working) picked up their bombs and revolvers and started shooting a few class enemies. --- In [email protected], "S. K. Jain" <skjai...@...> wrote: > > Since in previous mail, I had mentioned about Great Bal Gangadhar > Tilak. I wish to add more from wikipedia which is undoubtedly the > process of Judicial Reforms.
