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 of the people by a tactful concession to the sentiments of 17 non-official members of the Council, who, belonging to different political parties had united in desiring that the Council should be closed in honour of Mr. Tilak "a former member of this Council, a great Oriental scholar and a prominent worker in the cause of the country, held in high estimation by a large number of the people of India." But the Bureaucracy was as unwilling to forget its old grievances against Mr. Tilak as the Times of India or the Statesman.

Thousands of memorials to the Lokamanya have been suggested and raised in different parts of India. But the grandest of them all is the one for which Mahatma Gandhi moved from city to city and province to province, collecting huge sums during the eventful months of April, May and June 1921. As the Mahatmaji has said " Truly to revere the memory of a person is to achieve his life's purpose. Truly to revere the Memory of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, whom India delighted and still delights to call Lokamanya must be to establish Swaraj and thus forever perpetuate his memory." For this purpose, the Mahatma ji has col- lected the biggest fund ever raised by the people of India during the last hundred years. " The Tilak Memorial Swaraj Fund " will go down to posterity as a unique event in the history of this country. It will perpetuate not only the name of the Lokamanya but also that of Mahatma Gandhi, who, in three short months has accomplished a feat which Pandit M. M. Malaviya has scarcely been able to perform in the course of twelve years.

The amounts contributed by the various province