Editing Bal Gangadhar Tilak (section)

===All India Home Rule League===
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Tilak helped found the [[All India Home Rule League]] in 1916–18, with [[G. S. Khaparde]] and [[Annie Besant]]. After years of trying to reunite the moderate and radical factions, he gave up and focused on the Home Rule League, which sought self-rule. Tilak travelled from village to village for support from farmers and locals to join the movement towards self-rule.{{sfn|Tilak|1988|p=98}} Tilak was impressed by the [[Russian Revolution (1917)|Russian Revolution]], and expressed his admiration for [[Vladimir Lenin]].{{sfn|M. V. S. Koteswara Rao|2003|p=82}} The league had 1400 members in April 1916, and by 1917 membership had grown to approximately 32,000. Tilak started his Home Rule League in [[Maharashtra]], [[Central Provinces]], and [[Karnataka]] and Berar region. Besant's League was active in the rest of India.{{sfn|Tarique|2008|p=}}