In the Deccan he not only maintained all his old activities, but had extended their field.
Besides the _Kal_, edited by another Chitpawan Brahman, and the _Rashtramadt_ at Poona, which went to even greater lengths than Tilak's own _Kesari_, lesser papers obeying his inspiration had been established in many of the smaller centres.

A movement had been set on foot for the creation of "national" schools, entirely independent of State support, and therefore of State supervision, in which disaffection could, without let or hindrance, be made part and parcel of the curriculum.

Such were the schools closed down last year in the Central Provinces and this year at Telegaon.

The great development of the cotton industry during the last ten years, especially in Bombay itself--which has led to vast agglomerations of labour under conditions unfamiliar in India--had given Tilak an opportunity of establishing contact with a class of the population hitherto outside the purview of Indian politics.

There are nearly 100 cotton spinning and weaving mills, employing over 100,000 operatives, congregated mostly in the northern suburbs of the city.
Huddled together in huge tenements this compact population affords by its density, as well as by its ignorance, a peculiarly accessible field to the trained agitator.