Nationalist leader, scholar and writer; one of the founders of Deccan Education Society, Poona and the newspapers Kesari and The Mahratta; was sentenced to six years' deportation in 1908; launched the Home Rule Movement along with Annie Besant in 1916; started the Congress Democratic Party in 1920; author of The Onion, The Arctic Home of the Vedas and Gita Rahasya.
