# Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak Marble Bust Statue 21in > Master-carved Makrana white marble bust of Lokmanya Tilak, a 21-inch portrait in the Puneri pagdi, for schools, mandals and reading rooms. **Source:** https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-lokmanya-tilak-bust-statue-21in **Business:** Tilak Mandirwala — made-to-order marble temples (mandirs), statues and decorative handicrafts. Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Founded 2006. **How it works:** Each piece is carved to order by the independent master sculptors TMW works with in Jaipur's Khajane Walon Ka Rasta sculptors' market. TMW designs the piece with the customer, briefs the sculptor, and follows it through to delivery and installation. **Pricing:** request-for-quote — pieces are custom, so the site carries no list prices. **Ships:** across India; export enquiries welcome. **About the image:** a design visualisation, not a photograph of stock on hand. The piece is carved to order after the design is agreed. **Availability:** made to order. ## The portrait: Tilak in the Puneri pagdi Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 to 1920) is recognised before he is read: the tall Puneri pagdi, the heavy white moustache, the small round spectacles, the plain high-collared coat. This bust carries all four. It is cut at the chest in the classical portrait convention, so the weight of the piece falls entirely in the face: the level gaze and set jaw of the editor who ran Kesari and Mahratta out of Pune, revived the public Ganeshotsav in 1893, and gave the freedom movement the line "Swaraj is my birthright and I shall have it". The sculptor works from the well-known later photographs, by which time the moustache had gone white and the pagdi had become inseparable from the man. ## Makrana white marble, and why a memorial asks for it The stone is Makrana white marble, quarried in Nagaur district in Rajasthan. It comes from the same belt that supplied the Taj Mahal, which is why Indian commemorative sculpture has leaned on it for four centuries. Its grain is fine and crystalline rather than open, which is what lets a portrait hold its small edges: the wire rim of a spectacle arm, the crisp lip of a fold in the pagdi, the four buttons down the coat front. It is finished to a soft satin polish rather than a mirror, so the marble still reads as stone and the modelling across cheek and brow stays legible under hall lighting instead of dissolving into glare. ## The 21-inch scale, the plinth, and where it stands At 21 inches from the base of the plinth to the crown of the pagdi, the bust sits just under life size, with enough presence to close the end of a school corridor or hold a mandal's stage, yet contained enough for a reading-room console. It measures roughly 13 inches across the shoulders with a 10-inch depth and weighs about 38 kg finished, so it belongs on a masonry plinth or a pedestal rated for that load rather than a light display table. Set that pedestal at 40 to 45 inches and Tilak's eyes meet a standing adult's, which is how a commemorative bust is meant to be met. Leave a clear foot of plain wall behind it, because the silhouette of the pagdi is the signature of the whole piece. ## Make this Tilak bust yours We design the piece with you before the block is cut. The master sculptors we work with can take the bust to 24 or 30 inches for a hall of that scale, cut it in Vietnam white marble or black stone instead of Makrana, or leave a recessed panel on the plinth face for an engraved name, dates or a dedication line in Devanagari. Send us the reference photograph your committee has settled on, and we will brief it in and follow the work through to the day it is installed. ## Specifications - **Material:** Makrana White Marble - **Finish:** Soft polish (satin) - **Colour:** White - **Height:** 21 inches - **Width:** 13 inches - **Depth:** 10 inches - **Weight:** 38 kg - **Ideal for:** Schools and colleges, Mandal and trust offices, Reading rooms and libraries, Commemorative and memorial installations Stone, size and finish are all changeable — these are the specifications of the piece as shown. ## Media ### Images (1) - https://vptrobfqdvauunfvodxw.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/tmw-media-assets/Statue%20product%20images/makrana-white-marble-lokmanya-tilak-bust-statue-21in.webp (primary, concept render) All media is public and CORS-open — fetch directly, no signing or proxy needed. ## Part of - [Statues](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/collections/custom-marble-statues) ## Related pieces - [Swami Vivekananda Marble Bust Statue 24in in Makrana White](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-swami-vivekananda-bust-statue-24in) - [Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Marble Bust Statue 24in](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-sardar-patel-bust-statue-24in) - [Rabindranath Tagore Marble Bust Statue 24in in Makrana White](https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/products/makrana-white-marble-rabindranath-tagore-bust-statue-24in) ## Enquire about this piece - WhatsApp, message pre-written: https://api.whatsapp.com/send?phone=919766532408&text=Hi!%20I'd%20like%20a%20quote%20to%20have%20this%20design%20made%3A%20Lokmanya%20Bal%20Gangadhar%20Tilak%20Marble%20Bust%20Statue%2021in.%20Product%20link%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilakmandirwala.com%2Fproducts%2Fmakrana-white-marble-lokmanya-tilak-bust-statue-21in - Tell us the size, the stone and where it is going. We will send you a quote and a timeline. ## Contact Tilak Mandirwala - Email: info@tilakmandirwala.com - Phone: +91 92141 72150 - WhatsApp: https://wa.me/919766532408 - Enquiry form: https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/contact - Store: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India — https://www.tilakmandirwala.com/best-mandir-shop-jaipur Enquiries are quoted per piece: share the deity or object, an approximate height, and the stone you have in mind.