Tilak’s anti-reform allies drove the Social Conference from Congress grounds in 1895

Evidence

9 For a chronicle of the tussles between the Social Conference and conservative forces within the Congress, see John R. McLane (1988, 47–61). McLane writes: “In Maharashtra, Tilak demonstrated the potent political appeal of Hindu symbolism with the Ganapati and Shivaji festivals. In 1895, when the Congress met in Poona, the rowdyism of Tilak’s anti-reformer allies forced the Social Conference to abandon the use of the Congress enclosure for its meeting” (55). — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1036