Before Mahatma Gandhi, there was Bal Gangadhar Tilak ? the revolutionary who ignited the spark of Indian nationalism. The Times, London, called him ?the father of Indian unrest,? and the one-time Secretary of State for India Edward Montagu felt he had ?the greatest influence of any person? on the Indian people. Above all, for the British Raj, Tilak was sedition-monger-in-chief, and it prosecuted him thrice for sedition.