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 change it and have the special diet which he had after careful research, found suitable for diabetic patients.

As regards mental occupation, though all books or periodicals bearing on current Politics were rigourously excluded, Mr. Tilak could yet command the free use of other books and of writing materials. " Though conjoned in a room of 20X12 he could, if he liked, go out hunting with the primeval Aryan warriors in the Rigveda; enjoy the super glory of the Aurora with the Pole-Star at zenith overhead; busy himself with the ritual mysteries of the Vedic sacrificers gathered around their sacred Vedis; revel in the prospective clash of arms, when the numberless armies of the Pandavas and the Kauravas met on the bloodthirsty Kurukshetra; hsten to the Song Celestial as it was delivered in divine accents by Krishna to Arjuna; or take a tour round the world in company with the authors of the Historians' History of the World." When so much ' latitude ' was given to him, surely Mr. Tilak had no " right to complain ! "

Even the longest night has an end; and Mr. Tilak who received neither the benefit of the Delhi Durbar (1911) nor that of the usual remission was at long last secretly brought from Mandalay and liberated in front of his residence at midnight on June i6th, 19 14 !