Prime Minister of India paid tribute to Gopal Krishna Gokhale on his birth anniversary.
Gopal Krishna Gokhale was a great social reformer and educationist who provided exemplary leadership to the freedom movement of India.
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Gopal Krishna Gokhale:
Birth:
He was born on May 9, 1866 in Kotluk village in present-day Maharashtra (then part of Bombay Presidency).
Thinking : The Hindu Analysis
Gokhale worked towards social empowerment, expansion of education and Indian freedom struggle for three decades and rejected the use of reactionary or revolutionary methods.
Role in Colonial Legislatures : The Hindu Analysis
Between 1899 and 1902 he was a member of the Bombay Legislative Council and from 1902 to 1915 he served in the Imperial Legislative Council.
While serving in the Imperial Legislative Council, Gokhale was instrumental in formulating the Morley-Minto Reforms of 1909.
Role in Indian National Congress : The Hindu Analysis
He was associated with the Moderate Party of the Indian National Congress (INC) (joined in the year 1889).
He became the President of INC in 1905 Banaras session.
This was the time when wide differences arose between the ‘Normal Dal’ and the ‘Garam Dal’ led by Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and others. In the Surat session of 1907, these two factions separated.
Despite ideological differences, in the year 1907, he campaigned for the release of Lala Lajpat Rai, who was imprisoned by the British in Mandalay jail in Myanmar.
Related Societies and other functions : The Hindu Analysis
For the expansion of Indian education, in the year 1905, he established the Servants of India Society.
He was also associated with ‘Sarvajanik Sabha Patrika’ started by Mahadev Govind Ranade.
In the year 1908, Gokhale established the Ranade Institute of Economics.
He started the English weekly newspaper ‘The Hitavad’.
As Gandhi’s Guru : The Hindu Analysis
As a liberal nationalist, Mahatma Gandhi considered him a political mentor.
Mahatma Gandhi wrote a book ‘Dharmatma Gokhale’ in Gujarati language dedicated to Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
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