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Tilak developed [[diabetes]] during his sentence in Mandalay prison. This and the general ordeal of prison life had mellowed him at his release on 16 June 1914. When [[World War I]] started in August of that year, Tilak cabled the King-Emperor [[George V]] of his support and turned his oratory to find new recruits for war efforts. He welcomed The Indian Councils Act, popularly known as [[Minto-Morley Reforms]], which had been passed by British Parliament in May 1909, terming it as "a marked increase of confidence between the Rulers and the Ruled". It was his conviction that acts of violence actually diminished, rather than hastening, the pace of political reforms. He was eager for reconciliation with Congress and had abandoned his demand for direct action and settled for agitations "strictly by constitutional means" – a line that had long been advocated by his rival Gokhale.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/from-the-archives-may-10-1919-mr-tilak-and-the-indian-situation/article27083577.ece|title=From the Archives (May 10, 1919): Mr. Tilak and the Indian Situation.|date=10 May 2019|work=The Hindu|access-date=12 January 2020|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=January 2020}} Tilak reunited with his fellow nationalists and rejoined the Indian National Congress during the Lucknow pact 1916. .<ref name="Jayapalan2001">{{cite book|author=N. Jayapalan|title=History of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Z8OzIyGt0MC&pg=PA78|year=2001|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Dist|isbn=978-81-7156-917-5|page=78}}</ref>
Tilak tried to convince [[Mohandas Gandhi]] to leave the idea of Total non-violence ("Total Ahimsa") and try to get self-rule ("Swarajya") by all means.{{citation needed|date=July 2014}}<ref>{{Cite book |last=Raj |first=Rishi |title=Histories of the Indian Freedom Struggle |date=10 August 2022 |publisher=Prabhat Prakashan |year=2022 |isbn=9782022081007 |pages=489-490}}</ref> Though Gandhi did not entirely concur with Tilak on the means to achieve self-rule and was steadfast in his advocacy of ''[[satyagraha]]'', he appreciated Tilak's services to the country and his courage of conviction. After Tilak lost a civil suit against [[Valentine Chirol]] and incurred pecuniary loss, Gandhi even called upon Indians to contribute to the Tilak Purse Fund started with the objective of defraying the expenses incurred by Tilak.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/archives/mr-tilaks-service-mr-gandhis-speech/article27406589.ece|title=From the Archives (June 3, 1919): Mr. Tilak's Service. Mr. Gandhi's Speech.|date=3 June 2019|work=The Hindu|access-date=10 August 2019|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
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