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Who started the "Ganpati Utsav" and when?
Who started the "Ganpati Utsav" and when?
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In 1893, Lokamanya Tilak started the “Ganpati Utsav”.
In 1893, Bal Gangadhar Tilak started the “Ganpati Utsav”, as a community festival where patriotic songs would be sung and nationalist ideas would be propagated.
Tilak’s innovation was to shift the celebration of Ganeshotsav from private homes to public spaces, believing that this would bring people together and foster a sense of unity.