o  Bal Gangadhar Tilak described the method of three P’s – Prayer, petition and protest as political mendicancy. He propagated militancy and not mendicancy.

o  Tilak joined the Indian National Congress in 1890.

o  He opposed its moderate attitude, especially towards the fight for self-government. He was one of the most-eminent radicals at the time.

o  In fact, it was the Swadeshi movement of 1905–1907 that resulted in the split within the Indian National Congress into the Moderates and the Extremists.