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Bal Gangadhar Tilak is popularly credited with starting the public Ganesh festival. What does the evidence actually show?

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1. Bal Gangadhar Tilak is popularly credited with starting the public Ganesh festival. What does the evidence actually show?

Public idols were already being installed in Pune before him; he publicised and politicised the practice from 1893-94

He installed the very first public Ganesha idol in Pune in 1893, with no earlier precedent

He opposed the public festival and preferred it remain a household observance

He introduced the festival to Maharashtra from Tamil Nadu

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