Tilak opposed educating non-Brahmins and women as a loss of nationality
Evidence
8 Bal Gangadhar ‘Lokmanya’ Tilak (1865–1920) was a Chitpavan Brahmin and a social conservative who sought to imbue Congress nationalism with a distinct right-wing hue. He published two newspapers, the Marathi-language Kesari and Mahratta in English. Jaffrelot (2005, 44) calls him “the Congress leader from Poona who tended not to put in practice the social reforms he articulated” (emphasis added). Tilak saw even the education of women and non-Brahmins as “a loss of nationality” and consistently opposed the establishment of girls’ schools at a time when his coeval Jotiba Phule launched a full-scale attack on Brahminism, educated his wife Savitri, and established a school for girls which also admitted Untouchable children. — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1035
Categorization
- XREF: Directly germane to the caste-annihilation reading project: Tilak represents the caste-Hindu nationalism Ambedkar sought to counter. — connects to: Hindu elites passed anti-untouchability resolutions while Tilak dodged signing them; The rise of Brahmins in politics dates to the eighteenth-century Deccan.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 1035