Bengalee. Bal Gangadhar Tilak edited Kesari and Mahratta. This is the means that they used to educate the common people about the colonial oppression and spread nationalist ideas. News regarding the initiatives taken by the INC were taken to the masses through these newspapers.
For the first time, in the history of India, the press was used to generate public opinion against the oppressive policies and acts of the colonial government. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a firm believer that lower middle classes, peasants, artisans and workers could play a very important role in the national movement, He used his newspapers to articulate the discontent among this section of the people against the oppressive colonial rule. He called for national resistance against imperial British rule in India. On July , Tilak was arrested and charged under Section A of the Indian Penal Code.
Civil liberty, particularly in the form of freedom of expression and press became the significant part of Indian freedom struggle.