Lal Bal Pal (

Lala Lajpat Rai Lala Lajpat Rai (28 January 1865 - 17 November 1928) was an Indian author, freedom fighter, and politician. He played a vital role in the Indian Independence movement. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari. He was one of the three members of ...

, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, and

Bipin Chandra Pal Bipin Chandra Pal ( bn, বিপিন চন্দ্র পাল ; 7 November 1858 – 20 May 1932) was an Indian nationalist, writer, orator, social reformer and Indian independence movement freedom fighter. He was one third of the “L ...

) were a triumvirate of assertive nationalists in

British India The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In one ...

in the early 20th century, from 1906 to 1918. They advocated the Swadeshi movement involving the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907 during the anti-Partition agitation in

Bengal Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

which began in 1905. Lala Lajpat Rai had a famous dialogue during Swadeshi movement. The final years of the nineteenth century saw a radical sensibility emerge among some Indian intellectuals. This position burst onto the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self sufficiency".Erez Manela, The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism, Published by Oxford University Press US, 2007, , Lal Bal Pal mobilized Indians across the country against the

Bengal partition Bengal ( ; bn, বাংলা/বঙ্গ, translit=Bānglā/Bôngô, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predom ...

, and the demonstrations, strikes, and boycotts of British goods that began in Bengal soon spread to other regions in a broader protest against the Raj. The nationalist movement gradually faded with the arrest of its main leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak and retirement of

and Aurobindo Ghosh from active politics. While

suffered from injuries, due to police superintendent James A. Scott's decision to order the policemen under his command to ''lathi'' (baton) charge a crowd Rai was in and personally assaulted Rai; he died on 17 November 1928 due to a injuries sustained in lathi charge.

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Indian independence movement Indian independence movement in Maharashtra Memorials to Bal Gangadhar Tilak Memorials to Lala Lajpat Rai {{India-bio-stub They were in the INC ( indian nation congress ) INC