Question

Who among the following leaders said, "I am an Indian Tom-Tom, whose work is waking up all the sleepers so that they may wake and work for their motherland"?
1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak
2. Mahatma Gandhi
3. Sarojini Naidu
4. Annie Besant

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 1 : Bal Gangadhar Tilak

The correct answer is option 1 

• Bal Gangadhar Tilak said, "I am an Indian Tom-Tom, whose work is waking up all the sleepers so that they may wake and work for their motherland".
• Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one-third of the Lal Bal Pal triumvirate. Tilak was the first leader of the Indian Independence Movement.
• The British colonial authorities called him "The father of the Indian unrest." 
• Sarojini Naidu was an Indian political activist and poet.she was an important figure in India's struggle for independence from colonial rule.
• Naidu's work as a poet earned her the sobriquet 'Nightingale of India' by Mahatma Gandhi.
• Annie Besant was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, regarded as a champion of human freedom, she was an ardent supporter of both Irish and Indian self-rule.