Banerji, Upendranath : (1879-1950), revolutionary of Chandernagore & one of Sri Aurobindo’s associates (sub-editor) on the Bande Mataram staff. Master of Bengali prose, he was also one of the real editors & writers of Yugantar. He helped Barindra in recruiting & training suitable boys for their secret society & was in charge of their religious, moral & political education. In the Alipore Bomb Case he & Barin were among the few sentenced to transportation for life in the Andamans & released after World War I. “One day while sitting in the dock,” during the year-long Bomb Trial at Alipur, he writes, “my gaze fell on Arabinda Babu: his eyes were as still as pieces of glass & devoid of any emotion.... I was strongly convinced that an entirely new chapter had begun for this strange man.”
... Bagchee, Moni. Letter dated 23 November 1971, listing a few articles known by him to be by his father-in-law Shyam Sunder Chakravarti. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Banerji, Upendranath. List of articles said by him to be by Sri Aurobindo, compiled in 1939. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives. Deb, Suresh Chandra. 1949. "When He Was a Political Leader", Calcutta Municipal ...
... good writers too. They wrote in the Yugantar." Upen, or Upendranath Banerji (1879-1950), came from Chandernagore, then in French India. Throughout his life he was associated with a number of newspapers, including the Bande Mataram. He wrote profusely, except when he was put in prison by the British government. Upen Banerji and Debabrata Bose "were masters of Bengali prose," Sri Aurobindo ...
... with, that the Gita has been misused as a gospel of Terrorism. We cannot find any basis for this accusation except the bare fact that the teaching of the Gita was part of the education given by Upendranath Banerji in the Maniktola garden. There is no evidence to show that its tenets were used to justify a gospel of Terrorism. The only doctrine of the Gita the Terrorist can pervert to his use, is the dictum ...
... feet of Sri Aurobindo Some Reminiscences of Early Days in Pondicherry Far back in 1926, I had an urge to visit Rameshwar. My younger brother Upen (Dr. Upendranath Banerji) casually said to me: "Sister, let's go to Pondicherry, you'd able to see A.G. there." The initials stood for Aurobindo Ghose. "Let us", I replied. We decided to leave in June (Bengali Asharh) ...
... movements of his lower nature. One knows how to check impulses; but as to how I was to change them I had only the haziest notions. Once, in the 'thirties', I had a long talk with the late Upendranath Banerji, a quondam disciple of Gurudev. I remember his deep misgivings about the feasibility of transforming human nature. He said to me that he had definitely "experienced" that Yoga could bring into ...
... while I was in the Jugantar office. Barindra took me there saying that there was a mission for religion and self-abnegation and political purposes. Q: Who used to live at the Garden house? A: Upendranath Banerjee who used to teach me from the books named above. Others also used to be there: Barindra, Sishir Kumar Ghosh, Bejoy Kumar Nag; there were many others who used to come sometimes for a day... were despatched to the Andamans. Every precaution was taken to maintain secrecy and there was no gathering or demonstration at the jetty. Three of the prisoners, Poresh Chandra Maulik, Upendra Nath Banerji and Sudhir Kumar Sircar, are detained temporarily in the Alipore Central Jail owing to illness. From the Records of Home Department Political Sarkar, Sudhir Kumar, son of Prasanna Kumar, of Lakhipur ...
... arrival a dismissed cook had managed to get stones hurled into Sri Aurobindo’s house through the agency of a Mohammedan occultist. This was the topic of excited talk when I was at Pondicherry. Upendranath Banerjee, who hardly believed in the possibility of such occult phenomena, had gone to the terrace with a lantern and a lathi to find the culprit. I heard the whole story from Upen himself. The ... months and that they had a very curious feature in that they were all covered with moss. I was also told that among those who were then on the spot there was the rationalist stalwart Upendra Nath Banerji who had at first pooh-poohed the black-magic story and girded up his loins to unearth the miscreants who were responsible for it all. But even he had to confess himself beaten in the end as he could... till 1905. Therefore Girija's contention in the previous issues that Priya Mitra drifted away from Sri Aurobindo on account of Sri Aurobindo's partiality towards Barin in the quarrel between Jatin Banerji and Barin is not borne out by facts. 35. Another instance of wrong inference based on false evidence is furnished by several people ascribing the authorship of the Bhawani Mandir scheme to different ...
... understood in the Alipore jail this essential truth of Hinduism, and for the first time realised Narayana, the Supreme Divine, in the human bodies of thieves, robbers and murderers...." 156 Upendranath Bandyopadhyaya, a co-accused in the Alipore Bomb Case, has given a graphic pen-picture in his Bengali book, Nirvasiter Atmakatha 157 of how Sri Aurobindo lived in the Alipore Jail. We give... Bengali race by driving a wedge between the Hindus and the Muslims. Sir Bampfylde Fuller, who was appointed the first Lt. Governor of East Bengal and Assam, declared, according to Surendra Nath Banerji, "half in jest and half in seriousness, to the amazement of all sober-minded men that he had two wives, Hindu and Mohammedan, but that the Mohammedan was the favourite wife." Nevinson confirms Curzon's... also founded the Dawn Society, and was running the English organ. Dawn, in Calcutta. Almost all the men of light and leading in the city, including Rabindranath Tagore, Hiren Datta, Sir Gooroodas Banerji, Bepin Chandra Pal etc., were among the patrons and supporters of the college, and Benoy Kumar Sarkar and Radha Kumud Mookherji among its young professors. But the new movement for education lacked ...
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