About the Book: Lal-Bal-Pal: New Nationalists and Indias Struggle for Freedom
Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and Bipin Chandra Pal played a decisive
role in reshaping Indian political thought in the early 20th Century and in
deepening the struggle against colonial rule. Th¬is book examines their ideas as
a part of a wider critique of an exploitative imperial order. Lajpat Rai placed
his faith in constitutional methods and saw self-government as the surest check
on colonial power. Pal broadly shared this view, while also advocating peaceful
resistance when constitutional means failed. Tilak, however, argued more
forcefully for active resistance, drawing on the Bhagavad Gita