Balwant Gangadhar Tilak (Marāṭhī: बाळ गंगाधर टिळक) (July 23, 1856 - August 1, 1920) was an Indian nationalist, social reformer and ace freedom fighter. He was the first popular leader of the Indian Independence Movement and is known as "Father of the Indian unrest." Tilak roused the nation's consciousness for complete independence (famously thundering "Swaraj (total freedom) is my birthright and I shall have it") and was revered as Lokmanya ("the one respected/loved by people/world"). Tilak was a scholar of Indian history, Sanskrit, Hinduism, mathematics and astronomy.