Which of these statements are correct?

A. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was the first to advise peasants in Maharashtra to withhold payment of land revenues when their crops failed owing to drought or famine or pestilence.

B. He called for Swadeshi and boycott of British goods when Elgin, the Viceroy imposed an excise duty on Indian mill-made cloth.

C. Tilak was arrested in 1897 and charged with spreading hatred and disaffection against the British Government.

D. Tilak refused to apologize and accepted rigorous imprisonment for 18 months.

E. Bal Gangadhar Tilak wrote the book 'Scandenavian origin of Aryans'..

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