tilak

Turkish - Turkish

Definition of tilak in Turkish Turkish dictionary: Hinduizmde, kişinin bağlı olduğu mezhebi göstermek amacıyla genellikle anlına yapılan işaret
İ'TİLAK: (Osmanlı Dönemi) Âşık olma, birinin sevgi ve muhabbetine tutulma

English - English

Definition of tilak in English English dictionary: a mark or symbol worn on the forehead by Hindus, ornamentally or as an indication of status
Bal Gangadhar Tilak: born July 23, 1856, Ratnagiri, India died Aug. 1, 1920, Bombay Indian scholar and nationalist. Born to a middle-class Brahman family, Tilak taught mathematics and in 1884 founded the Deccan Education Society to help educate the masses. Through two weekly newspapers, he voiced his criticisms of British rule in India, hoping to widen the popularity of the nationalist movement beyond the upper classes. In response to the Partition of Bengal (1905) he initiated a boycott of British goods and passive resistance, two forms of protest later adopted by Mohandas K. Gandhi. He left the Indian National Congress in 1907 when he was deported for sedition but rejoined in 1916, in time to sign a Hindu-Muslim accord with Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Though militant in his opposition to foreign rule, late in life Tilak advocated a measure of cooperation with the British in order to achieve reforms

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