| Summary/Abstract |
Neither Mr. Tilak nor his speeches really require any presentation or
foreword. His speeches are, like the featureless Brahman, self-luminous,
straightforward, lucid, never turning aside from the point which they
mean to hammer in or wrapping it up in ornamental verbiage, they read
like a series of self-evident propositions. And Mr. Tilak himself, his
career, his place in Indian politics are also a self-evident proposition, a
hard fact baffling and dismaying in the last degree to those to whom
his name has been anathema and his increasing pre-eminence figured
as a portent of evil.
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