Baker, Sir Edward : (1857-1913), educated at Christ’s College, Finchley: passed ICS & went out to Bengal 1878 as Under Secretary to the Governor of Bengal & Govt. of India, Finance Dept. 1885: Deputy Secretary 1892-5, Secretary 1902-05: Financial Secretary to the Govt. of Bengal & Member Bengal Legislative Council 1898-1902: Companion of the Star of India 1900: Financial Member of the Supreme Council of India, 1905-08: knighted 1908: Lt. Governor of Bengal 1908-11 [Buckland].
... Bahadur, Naresh, 761 Baji Prabhou, 68, 114ff; a mini-epic, 114; a modem Thermopylae, 116; rich in tragedy and triumph, 118; spiritual connotation, 118,119, 174, 177, 185 Baker, Sir Edward, 322, 368m Bande Mataram, 19, 76, 88, 119, 194, 201, 218, 219ff; started by Bepin Pal, 219; named after Bankim's song in Ananda Math, 219; the song as battle-cry, 220; refrain used ...
... Karmayogin No. 27, 8 January 1910 Karmayogin No. 27, 8 January 1910 Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Sir Edward Baker's Admissions Of all the present rulers of India Sir Edward Baker is the only one who really puts any value on public opinion. He has committed indiscretions of a startling character, he has loyally carried out a policy with which he can... Councils may be the kind of advisory body the Government want, they are not the popular assemblies, mirrors of public opinion and instruments of rapid political development, which the people want. Sir Edward Baker says that no Government can be expected to run the risk of putting itself into a permanent minority,—such a state of things cannot be allowed for a day. We quite agree. That is what we have been... Government circumstanced like ours to be quite frank and say from the beginning, "This much we mean to give; farther you must not expect us to go." Calcutta and Mofussil The point which Sir Edward Baker, in common with all Anglo-Indian publicists, makes of the distinction between Calcutta and the Mofussil, is quite justifiable if the Councils are to be only a superior edition of the local Mu ...
... the only system of government Lord Morley will tolerate in India. That demand has only to be mentioned to be scouted. Sir Edward's Menace The final indiscretion of Sir Edward Baker was also the worst. We do not think we have ever heard before of an official in Sir Edward's responsible position uttering such a menace as issued from the head of this province on an occasion and in a place where... Karmayogin No. 5, 24 July 1909 Karmayogin No. 5, 24 July 1909 Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The Indiscretions of Sir Edward The speech of Sir Edward Baker in the Bengal Council last week was one of those indiscretions which statesmen occasionally commit and invariably repent, but which live in their results long after the immediate occasion has been... rule according to the wishes of the people and the people work in unison with the Government for the maintenance of their common interests. By advancing the demand in the way he has advanced it, Sir Edward Baker has made the position of his Government worse and not better. What Co-operation? The delusion under which the Government labours that the Terrorist activities have a great organisation at ...
... Karmayogin No. 7, 7 August 1909 Karmayogin No. 7, 7 August 1909 Karmayogin Youth and the Bureaucracy Sir Edward Baker is usually a polite and careful man and a diplomatic official. It is not his fault if the policy he is called upon to carry through is one void of statesmanship and contradictory of all the experience of history. Neither is it his fault... which the future nation can be built. This seventh of August in this year 1909 is not an ordinary occasion. It is a test, a winnowing-fan, a separator of the wheat and the chaff. Because it is so, Sir Edward Baker Page 168 has been inspired by an overruling Providence to publish his notification and the authorities of colleges to act according to their kind. The question is put not to these... guilty of on a recent occasion, it was with a recognition of the fact that he must have forgotten himself and spoken on the spur of the moment. But as the Anglo-Indian bureaucracy is now constituted, Sir Edward's personal superiority to his two predecessors is of no earthly use to us. We acknowledge the politeness and self-restraint of the wording in his recent advertisement to the educational authorities ...
... disturbance or public inconvenience. The only fresh emergency was the political. A Hint from Dinajpur The Amrita Bazar Patrika notices a case from Dinajpur which may give a few hints to Sir Edward Baker if he really wants or is wanted to establish police autocracy in Calcutta. Mr. Garlick there justified the caning of witnesses and accused by the police as a necessary "method of examination"... would get any information at all." The case will come up before the High Court and we await with interest the view that authority will take of this novel legal dictum. Meanwhile why should not Sir Edward Baker take time by the forelock and, after a now familiar method, validate such "methods" beforehand by a clause in his Police Bill empowering any policeman to cut with a cane any citizen whom he may ...
... paid for nothing." So, was it not surer, argued the bureaucrats, to arrest and deport him ... to the Andamans where his brother and colleagues in revolution were rotting? By that time Sir Edward Baker had replaced Sir Andrew as the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. The new incumbent began giving his most close and careful attention to the situation. He was convinced that after his release, Arabindo Ghose... could not be sure of the machinery of the law. As the Page 519 Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal reported, "If there were a good prospect of obtaining a conviction, he [Sir Edward Baker, the Lieutenant-Governor] would have been ready to prefer an appeal. Such a course would, however, certainly cause a revival of public feeling against Government and in favour of the accused,... twice for serving the country." The Government continued to look upon him with suspicion, and the police kept him under strict surveillance. His acquittal had in no way allayed their fear. Sir Andrew Page 518 Fraser, the Lt. Governor of Bengal, went on pestering Lord Minto, the Viceroy to again deport Arabindo Ghose. The information gleaned from British intelligence reports ...
... Morley, the Secretary of State for India, used another adjective: "the redoubtable Arabinda." Sir Edward Baker, the Governor of Bengal, regarded Sri Aurobindo as "one of the most dangerous factors in the present situation...." When Minto transmitted the opinion of the Secretary of State to Sir Edward, he protested, saying that there was no reason to show any favour to "our most conspicuous and most... most dangerous opponent." Was not Aurobindo "preaching sedition almost without disguise"? Again it was Baker who, writing in great detail to the Viceroy, gave it as his strong belief that "he is not a mere blind and unreasoning tool, but an active generator of revolutionary sentiment.... I attribute the spread of seditious doctrines to him personally in a greater degree than to any other single individual... individual in Bengal, or possibly in India." In a confidential note of 19 May 1908, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Sir Andrew Fraser, said that the public Page 456 records which he had collected, "make him the undisputed leader of the Bengal revolutionaries." The Movement must be throttled. The 'most dangerous man' must be severely dealt with. It was Judge Beachcroft ...
... far behind. Behar sends one independent man in Mr. Deepnarain Singh. All the rest are of the dignified classes who either have no patriotic feelings or dare not express them. It is possible that Sir Edward Baker, in order to remove the stigma of unrepresentative subserviency from his Council, may try to nominate two or three who will help to keep Sj. Baikunthanath and his friend in countenance, but that... resignation of Sir Pherozshah makes it easier for the Bengal Moderates to attend the Lahore Congress, and that may not have been absent from the thoughts of the master tactician. But we never thought that Sir Pherozshah would care so much for the co-operation of the Bengalis as to allow Srijut Surendranath to be President, as certain sanguine gentlemen in Bengal seem to have expected. Failing Sir Pherozshah... Karmayogin No. 24, 18 December 1909 Karmayogin No. 24, 18 December 1909 Karmayogin Facts and Opinions Sir Pherozshah's Resignation The resignation of Sir Pherozshah Mehta took all India by surprise. It was as much a cause of astonishment to his faithful friends and henchmen as to the outside world. The speculation and bewilderment have been increased ...
... that we have the power to prevent these incidents and are therefore to some extent responsible either for bringing them about or for not stopping them before. It echoes the indiscretion by which Sir Edward Baker sought to make a whole nation responsible for these acts of recklessness and excuses the vindictive and headstrong utterances in which Mr. Gokhale tried to protect his own party and invoke the... at all rise out of the narrow groove of class interests or racial pride and prejudice, can only be influenced by one consideration, the best way to preserve the Empire in India. Even in the minds of Sir Henry Cotton and Mr. Mackarness that cannot fail to be a dominant consideration. If any educational work has to be done in England, it is to convince these classes that it is only by the concession of ...
... Letter to Lord Morley is seditious. We are almost afraid to go on, lest, finally, we should end by proving that the Englishman itself is an intolerably seditious rag,—for does it not try to bring Sir Edward Baker and the Government generally into contempt by intimating genially that they are liars, idiots and good-for-nothing Page 406 weaklings,—in connection with the Reforms and their unw... not of conspiracy. Now one of the charges against a Punjab accused is that he wrote impugning the character of the subordinate police service—just like the Indian Daily News or Sir Andrew Fraser. We would suggest that Sir Andrew Fraser should be arrested in England and brought here to answer to the outraged police for the remarks passed by the Police Commission. The reasoning is perfectly fair. Any ...
... meant to confirm the division which every English statesman declares it to be essential to British prestige to perpetuate, and if the older leaders of West Bengal accept the reforms and stand for Sir Edward Baker's Council or allow their followers to stand for it, the sooner the partition resolution is deleted from the proceedings of Provincial and District conferences and the celebration of the 16th October... opinion gave up their seats on the old Council and the idea of becoming Honourables in future, join the reformed Council in Calcutta, there is nothing to prevent the East Bengal leaders from joining Sir Lancelot Hare's Council in the capital of the New Province. If that happens, where will the Anti-Partition agitation be and where the solemn vow of unity? To solemnly meet once a year and declare that ...
... -G. says that measures will be passed which will observe no nice discrimination between the innocent and the guilty. A more cynical statement has seldom issued from a ruler in the position of Sir Edward Baker. If the threat is carried out, who will be the gainers? I do not deny that it may for a time stop our public activities. It may force the school of peaceful self-development and passive resistance ...
... totally reject the resolution on the Terrorist outrages which no Bengal Conference ought to pass after the speech of the Lieutenant Governor which still stands on record and has not been withdrawn. Sir Edward Baker distinctly declared that the Government has no farther use for mere denunciations of the outrages however fervently worded and he has thrown on the whole country the responsibility for the cessation ...
... went to see him and took leave, he opened them fully and looked at me. It seemed as if he could penetrate me and see everything clearly. That reminds me of a compliment given to my eyes by Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal. He visited me in Alipore Jail and told Charu Dutt, "Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes?" "Yes, what about them?" asked Charu. "He has the eyes of a madman!" Charu... . She found fault with him and discontinued the treatment, saying that she would rely on the Mother's Force since it was the Mother who had cured her. DR. SATYENDRA: That is the difficulty here. Sir! The patients come to oblige us and when they are cured it is done by the Mother. Then why come to us? They say they come to give us work; otherwise, how will our sadhana go on? Here Nirodbaran gave ...
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... of a temperate sun." I have said so much about his voice, I might as well add a few words about his eyes. Opinions about them vary according to the inner quality of the person who saw them. Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal, archenemy of Sri Aurobindo's fiery nationalism, described them as "the eyes of a madman" when he visited him in Alipore Jail. The English Principal of the Baroda College said... tempted to ask how much of this knowledge was the outcome of his practical worldly experience and how much a result of Yoga? In a letter to me he had said, "Don't try to throw allopathic dust in my eyes, sir! I have lived a fairly long time and seen something of the world before my retirement and much more after it." So Yoga must have opened to his vision "thoughts that wander through eternity" and made... Manilal would come up in the morning (for he was living outside the Ashram compound) and stand with folded hands before Sri Aurobindo who lay in bed. After pranam he would ask, smiling, "How are you, Sir? Did you sleep well?" to which Sri Aurobindo's answers were genially brief. These short preambles were soon followed by the cascade. It was evening, about 7 p.m. Our duty being over, Sri Aurobindo ...
... 198,240 Asia, 25, 39, 157, 178 and the Communist pl an, 252·253 astronomy, 168 Augustus, 77 avatar, 49 , 89 , 91, 102 Azad, Abul Kalam, Maulana, 230, 238(fn) B Bahaism. 169 Baker, Edward, 47 (fn) Bakunin,93 Bande Mataram (mantra and national song), 9, 21,22, 37 ,154,222,223 Bande Mataram (English daily), 17,27,47 Banerjee, Jitendranath, 13 Banerji, Surendranath, 17 Bangladesh... 30, 36, 54, 57, 58, 68, 124, 148, 154 Cowell, E . B., 97(11) creation (new), 21 , 23, 32, 57 , 91 , 128, 154 , 193 ,200.201,241,244,247 criminals. Indian, 214 in politics , 221 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 237 Cripps' proposal, 224(11), 237 culture. see under Indian culture Curzon, 17 Czechoslovakia , 23 I D Danton, 24 Das, Chillaranjan, 13,47, 159, 185,216, 221,223,242 Dayananda ...
... spoke about this experience subsequently in his epoch-making Uttarpara speech. Some other reminiscences of jail life are given here: "This reminds me of a compliment given to my eyes by Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal. He visited us in Alipore Jail and told Charu Chandra Dutt, 'Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes? He has the eyes of a mad man!' Charu Dutt took great pains to convince him... outwardly unconcerned and unperturbed. He had, as it were, drawn his mind into the depth of his being."² On 14 May Sri Aurobindo issued the following letter to the Editor of the Bengalee : Sir, Will you kindly allow me to express through your columns my deep sense of gratitude to all who have helped me in my hour of trial? Of the innumerable friends known and unknown, who have contributed ...
... There were also certain other encounters and experiences. Sir Edward Baker, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, after a visit to the Alipur Jail where he happened to see Sri Aurobindo, told Charu Chandra Dutt: "Have you seen Arabinda Ghose's eyes? He has the eyes of a mad man!", and Dutt had to take great pains to convince Sir Edward that Arabinda wasn't mad at all but was really a true Karma... preordained configuration and conclusion. Curzon had divided Bengal, and injured and insulted a great nation; and, by a strange irony of history, his successor Minto was called upon to face the music. As Sir Pratap Singh, a titled dignitary of the time, put it with charming naïveté, "Lord Curzon has strewn Lord Minto's bed with thorns, and he must lie on them." 1 "Sedition" was divined here - there - ...
... as a Bengali weekly, the Dharma. The following excerpts are from the Karmayogin. ________________ * Thus wrote Lord Min to, the then Viceroy of India, on Sri Aurobindo. 9 Sir Edward Baker, Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, concurred: "I attribute the spread of seditious doctrines to him personally in a greater degree than to any other single individual in Bengal, or possibly in India ...
... beasts. Those are roomier, more airy. Men come and go, there is life and movement all around. I had none of those things. That men should sometimes go mad there is perfectly understandable. Later Sir Edward Baker, the Governor of Bengal, visited us in the jail and told Charu Dutt, 'Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes? He has the eyes of a mad man!' Charu Dutt took great pains to convince him that I was... All the children shouted excitedly, pointing at a very sweet timid boy, "He is Aurobindoprasad!" "But then all these names are given after you, Sir," said Aurobindoprasad. Sri Aurobindo smiled and looked at a child who was ready to speak - "Sir, how could your father leave your mother alone in London and come back home?" "Well, Father was like that. And my mother wasn't quite alone, really... "Yes, I do.... "Another thing that amazed me in England at first was the fact that even the servants and porters were all white! I hadn't read D. L. Roy's song then, you see. The porters called us 'Sir', and carried our luggage. They were so different from the sahibs in India where even the smallest white man behaved like a lord! So that even at that tender age, my heart cried out - 'Who would live ...
... best line and that gave me the swing of the metre." 162 162. Life of Sri Aurobindo — A.B. Purani. Page 298 "This reminds me of a compliment given to my eyes by Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal. He visited us in Alipur Jail and told Charu Chandra Dutt, 'Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes? He has the eyes of a mad man!' Charu Chandra Dutt I.C.S. took great pains... devoted to the interests of the Muslims who formed the majority community there, and their condition bettered. But the very people of East Bengal for whom the change was proposed would have none of it. Sir Henry Cotton wrote in the Manchester Guardian of England on the 5th of April, 1904: "The idea of the severance of the oldest and most populous and wealthy portion of Bengal and the division of its... Lord Curzon's personal dislike ³ of the Bengali race, as shown also by his Convocation speech of the previous February, in which he brought against the whole people an indictment for mendacity." Sir Henry Cotton, who had already denounced the proposal of partition when it was in embryo, says in his New India that the partition was "...part and parcel of Lord Curzon's policy to enfeeble the growing ...
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