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{{short description|Triumvirate of Indian anti-colonial nationalists}}
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[[File:Lal Bal Pal.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Lala Lajpat Rai]] of [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]] of [[Bombay Presidency|Bombay]], and [[Bipin Chandra Pal]] of [[Bengal Presidency|Bengal]], the triumvirate were popularly known as Lal Bal Pal, changed the political discourse of the [[Indian independence movement]].]]
'''Lal Bal Pal''' ([[Lala Lajpat Rai]], [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], and [[Bipin Chandra Pal]]) were a [[triumvirate]] of [[Indian independence movement|anti-colonial nationalists]] in [[British Raj|British India]] in the early 20th century, from 1906 to 1918.{{cn|date=August 2021}} 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 Presidency|Bengal]] which began in 1905. They were also known as the "Radicals of The Indian Independence Movement". {{cn|date=August 2021}}

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".<ref name= Erez>Erez Manela, The Wilsonian moment: self-determination and the international origins of anticolonial nationalism, Published by Oxford University Press US, 2007, {{ISBN|0-19-517615-4}}, {{ISBN|978-0-19-517615-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://orissa.gov.in/portal/LIWPL/event_archive/Events_Archives/116Lala_Lajpat_Rai.pdf |title=Death anniversary of Lala Lajpat Rai |publisher=Government of Orissa |access-date=13 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://rrtd.gov.in/biolalalajpat.html |title=Lala Lajpat Rai |publisher=[[Government of India]] |access-date=13 October 2011 |archive-date=25 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425062907/http://rrtd.gov.in/biolalalajpat.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author1=Ashalatha A. |author2=Pradeep Koropath |author3=Saritha Nambarathil |title=Social Science: Standard VIII Part 1 |chapter=Chapter 6 - Indian National Movement |publisher=State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) - Government of Kerala • Department of Education |year=2009 |pages=72 |url=https://www.itschool.gov.in/pdf/Std_VIII/Social%20Science/SS_VIII_Engpart1.pdf |access-date=13 October 2011}}</ref>

Lal Bal Pal mobilised Indians across the country against the [[Partition of Bengal (1905)|Bengal partition]], 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.{{cn|date=August 2021}}

The nationalist movement gradually faded with the arrest of its main leader [[Bal Gangadhar Tilak]], and retirement of [[Bipin Chandra Pal]] and [[Aurobindo Ghosh]] from active politics.<ref name= Erez/> While [[Lala Lajpat Rai]] suffered from injuries, due to [[Superintendent (police)|police superintendent]] James A. Scott's decision to order the policemen under his command to [[Lathi charge|''lathi'' (baton) charge]] a crowd Rai was in and personally assaulted [[Lala Lajpat Rai|Rai]]; he died on 17 November 1928 due to the injuries sustained in lathi charge.<ref name="rai">{{cite book |last=Rai |first=Raghunath |year=2006 |title=History For Class 12: Cbse. India |publisher=VK Publications |isbn=978-81-87139-69-0 |page=187}}</ref>

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[[Category:Indian independence movement in Maharashtra]]
[[Category:Memorials to Bal Gangadhar Tilak]]
[[Category:Memorials to Lala Lajpat Rai]]

Lal Bal Pal - Revision history

TeganJ7136381 at 17:25, 23 January 2026