Anushilan Samiti : started by Satish Chandra Bose in 1902 with P. Mitra) as it head, in Calcutta & Dacca as an association for lāthi-play & physical culture. Its name was taken from a book by Bankim Chandra. Its branches quickly spread all over Bengal, but eventually the Dacca branch became its most successful centre. The British banned it in October 1909 on the basis of ‘evidence’ compiled by its resourceful CID in May 1908.
... leaders, and the strength of Bengal though immensely increased, is not yet the perfect and tempered steel that it must become, hard as adamant and light in the lifting. The Anushilan Samiti The proclamation of the Anushilan Samiti in Calcutta is one of the most autocratic and unjustifiable acts that the bureaucracy have yet committed. The Calcutta Samiti has distinguished itself, since the beginning ...
... Court barrister, P. Mitra, and called the Anushilan Samiti. Under its influence small groups and associations of young men who had not yet any clear idea or settled programme of revolution began to turn in that direction, while groups that already had a revolutionary aim began developing their activities on organized lines. It was with this Anushilan Samiti that Aurobindo came in touch on one of his... himself had not long ago been initiated in the Western Secret Society in Bombay, to which Bal Gangadhar Tilak also belonged. Aurobindo administered the oath of secrecy to the chief members of the Anushilan Samiti. They had to hold the Bhagavad Gita in one hand and an unsheathed sword in the other, while pledging their lives, total dedication and secrecy to the society. P. Mitra would become president ...
... colleges to dismiss from their employment any professor who joins in the political life of his country. Yesterday the news was published of the suppression of another Samiti, the Anushilan Samiti. We all know what the Anushilan Samiti is. We all know that it is one of those Samitis which has the least to do with politics. It is one of the most self-restrained and self-denying of all the associations and confined ...
... preferred to act behind the scenes. He was initiated in the Western Secret Society in Bombay, and administered in his turn the oath of secrecy and unconditional service of the Motherland to the Anushilan Samiti , “India’s first true revolutionary society”, in Calcutta. By now he had married a young girl from the city of his birth, which at that time was still the capital of British India – Delhi would ...
... 1948 and 1950 in reply to political leaders who approached him for guidance. To Surendra Mohan Ghosh. 12 June 1948 . As a youth, Surendra Mohan Ghosh (1893 - 1976) was a member of the Anushilan Samiti, a revolutionary organisation that had been founded by Sri Aurobindo and others in 1902. Later he joined the Indian National Congress. From 1938, he was president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress ...
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... culture and self-defence, Samitis for the organization of meetings, festivals and other great occasions. All these are good, but we want now Samitis for giving help and light to the masses. The Anushilan Samiti has given a right direction to its activities when it undertook Famine Relief, but Famine Relief is a temporary work, one which needs an immense fund to be really effective, and only a united ...
... society, as Sri Aurobindo had sent him with a letter to her and to P. Mitter. P. Mitter (Pramathanath Mitra— 1853-1910), a disciple of the famous Yogi Bejoy Goswamy, was the founder of the Anushilan Samiti. "P. Mitter had a spiritual life and aspiration and a strong religious feeling; he was like Bepin Pal and several other prominent leaders of the new nationalist movement in Bengal," said Sri Aurobindo ...
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