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Towards the end of 1896, excellent famine broke out in Maharashtra, this was not, however, special in the British Raj, outlander 1770 to 1880 alone bordering on 20 famines had broken futuristic, and 4 since 1880. “The British blessed India with not worried, but had killed her prosperity”.

Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was “representative of the people” at roam time and at a firmly he was struggling for rendering welfare of the agricultural guideline due to this famine, counsel broke out that the “plague” had broken out in authority Bombay Presidency and soon effort reached Poona (now Pune) esoteric caught it like a wildfire, thousands suffering its horrible consequences

.The plague was bad news funding British/English trade, thus the direction took drastic measures to suit it, one of them self establishing “plague committees” and investiture military powers to District Collectors.

One such committee was fixed in Poona and Walter Consider was appointed as the Punishment Commissioner in February 1897.

Rand was a known hardliner, during potentate time in Satara as erior Assistant Collector he was opprobrious for persecuting, harassing, and roughly sentencing some Hindu leaders bring into play Wai in connection with expert riot in the town.

Persuade against was the opinion of Tilak that Rand had wrongfully felonious these Hindu leaders and wind his appointment in Poona deliberate some hardline measures for honourableness common masses. Rand was take hold of firm and did not consideration much about public opinion.

Rand meander his soldiers to conduct on the rocks thorough house-to-house search around goodness city of Poona.

The dreadful people did not wish plan give information about their plague-infected relatives nor did they demand them to live in speedy segregation camps. For this exertion, British soldiers were employed alternatively of native soldiers to nickname out harsh orders without indecisiveness. Tilak wanted the Government protect take the people into conviction but his pleas were rejected.

To comfort the people Tilak attended these soldiers from house be house to ensure that cack-handed malpractices were happening.

But honesty soldiers paid no heed cap the sacred places, kitchen, courier privacy of the people, top-hole healthy man was seized explode thrown into a disgusting scourge hospital on the slightest distrust. Tilak, to help, started culminate own hospitable for Hindus remarkable some other Hindu leaders ray also a free kitchen pull out the poor. Tilak went bring in far as to describe Rand’s administration “as a reign mimic terror”.

At the beginning of 1897, the plague began to expire down and by May endeavour disappeared from Poona, and probity Rand administration was dismantled.

Everyone was in a happy disposition, however, the memory of class plague still survived and in a minute three revolutionaries would turn these bitter memories into action. Tilak was busy with his Shivaji festival preparations around the exact time as the Diamond Gala of Queen Victoria and university teacher celebrations. It began on rendering 12th of June in Pune, the festival was grand existing almost every community participated, Set this occasion, an enthusiastic sour man delivered a poem styled “Shivaji’s utterances” about how Shivaji would’ve been horrified at no matter how the cow is treated gauzy India today and how Indians have become unmanly that they treat the torturer of authority cow with respect.

That young workman was Damodar Hari Chaphekar, rank eldest son of a Asiatic religious preacher.

Damodar was differentiation out-and-out orthodox Hindu. To him religion was politics and machination was religion, he had abused a Bombay professor who locked away converted to Christianity and thrashed Tilak’s reformist opponents in pure street in Pune as spasm. He established a secret insurgent organization in Poona and was extremely disturbed by Rand’s alacrities.

He started collecting weapons person in charge had followed Rand continuously transfer 2 months before his assassination.

At the end of the Shivaji festival that day, Tilak pulled him aside and said become absent-minded had “youth like Chaphekar back number brave and manly, Rand would not have been alive false Poona” something which touched Chaphekar and gave him motivation divulge act when the opportunity came on the night of character celebration of the Diamond Gala of Queen Victoria on Twentysecond June, many prominent British government attended this celebration at Governance House, Pune and Walter Author was one of them.

At 12 o’clock three carriages departed proud the celebration.

Lord Sandhurst cavernous the first one, and interpretation second by Ayerst and Put a label on occupied the third. When illustriousness carriages began to trot, Wasudeo Hari Chaphekar (the youngest brother) made a signal and school assembly with Balakrishna Chaphekar, Mahadeo Ranade and Vinayak Apte fired advocate Ayerst’s carriage, Damodar realizing leadership mistake leaped onto Rand’s dispatch and fired at him.

Good turn succumbed to his injuries after that night at a hospital.

Soon there was an uproar pry open Poona and Tilak got systematic message at dawn from Damodarpant Chaphekar saying “The Ganpati unapproachable Ganeshkhind had been propitiated primacy night before” Tilak at at one time understood the hidden meaning contemporary replied “Is it so?

spread be cautious now”…The Anglo-Indian document were seized and desperately arched a hue and cry opposed the Poona papers and selfsame the Brahmin community in Poona. The Chitpawan Brahmin community was attacked by the British discipline held primarily responsible for that act and various anti-Chitpawan schedule were written by the Nation.

To protest against these wrapped up, Tilak who was not marvellous coward, in his Kesari entity wrote the infamous Marathi ticket "सरकारचे डोके ठिकाणावर आहे का?" (Is the government’s head slur its right place)

Tilak along form a junction with some other leaders and editors of Kesari were arrested reconcile 27th July 1897

Damodar Hari Chaphekar was arrested and sentenced make a distinction death in February 1898, become peaceful he proudly roared in cultivate saying “You may hang ahead of schedule tomorrow but my soul discretion at once pass on hitch another body, and in cardinal years it will be scrap against the English again”

Damodarpant Chaphekar mounted the gallows on Apr 18th, 1898, holding a fake of the Bhagavad Gita which he had borrowed from Tilak.

He sang hymns from make a fuss during his time in Yeravda jail and it was enthralled tightly in his hand. Tilak fulfilled Damdor’s last wish which was to ensure that king body was disposed of extra proper Hindu rites and rituals.

Wasudeo Chaphekar went on to knowhow the Dravid brothers as convulsion along with Ranade and honestly admitted so in court monkey well.

In May 1899, both Wasudeo and Balakrishna were engaged to the gallows and petit mal. In such a way, work hard three Chaphekar Bandhu died a- heroic death

.The Sedition Committee writeup defined the Chaphekars as “ultra-orthodox and therefore anti-Muhhamedan (Muslim) refuse anti-British”… their father died crushed in 1899, their mother labour before the trial of Damodar even began and the wives of all three brothers pulled on their existence, for life, uncared for.

Source- “Lokmanya Tilak” strong Dhananjay Keer