Lokmanya Tilak was born on 23 July 1856 at Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. He was an Indian nationalist, teacher, social reformer, lawyer and an independence activist. Home Rule League was formed by Indian him and British social reformer and Indian independence leader Annie Besant on the lines of Irish Home Rule movement and other home rule movements. He also started the newspaper Kesari to spread political education among the common people which played an important role in the national movement.