Baroda College : Sri Aurobindo began working in this College (then affiliated to Bombay University) in 1897 while continuing with his other official duties. In January 1905, he was appointed Vice Principal & was for a time Acting Principal & also officiated as Education Minister. He gave his resignation in 1906 to move to Calcutta where he had been appointed as Principal of the Bengal National College. The Baroda College is now incorporated in the Maharaja Sayājirao University. The room in the old building in which he took his classes has been specially maintained. On 22 July, 1899, addressing its students Sri Aurobindo said: “I think there is no student of Oxford or Cambridge who does not look back in after days on the few years of his undergraduate life as… that which calls up the happiest memories. He goes up from the restricted life of his home (see Manchester & St Paul’s School) & finds himself in surroundings which with astonishing rapidity expand his intel¬lect, strengthen his character, develop his social faculties, force out all his abilities & turn him in three years from a boy into a man. His mind ripens in the contact with minds which meet from all parts of the country & have been brought up in many various kinds of trainings, his unwholesome eccentricities wear away & the unsocial, egoistic elements of character are to a large extent discouraged. He moves among ancient & venerable buildings, the mere age & beauty of which are in themselves an education. He has the Union which has trained so many great orators & debaters, has been the first trial ground of so many renowned intellects…. The result is that he who entered the university a raw student, comes out of it a man & a gentleman, accustomed to think of great affairs & fit to move in cultivated society, & he remembers his College & Universi¬ty with affection, & in after days if he meets with those who have studied with him he feels attracted towards them as to men with whom he has a natural brotherhood. This is the social effect I should like the Colleges & Universities of India also able to exercise, to educate by social influence as well as those which are merely academical & to create a feeling among their pupils that they belong to the community, that they are children of one mother.” [CWSA Vol.01, pp.353-54] Besides his own experience at the College, he had the advantage of his bond with James Cotton who met him at the College during a visit to India. In 1904, when Viceroy Curzon passed the Indian Universities Act based on the opinion of the Education Commission headed by Thomas Raleigh the Law Member of his Executive Council (for details see Calcutta University), Maharaja Sayājirao discussed the issue with his chief officers & also Tilak whom he held in high esteem. Extract from the notes from which Sri Aurobindo addressed the meeting: “Your Highness & Gentlemen, the subject on which I wish to address you this evening... is Education…. I have to say this that the Govt. of India is in the first place not the fit body to formulate the necessary improvements & in the second place not the fit instrument to put them into force. It is not fit to formulate them because it cannot realise & feel as we do where the shoe pinches us & therefore in mending it…. The Indian University system has confined itself entirely to [the intellectual branch/ part of education which is not more important than physical training & edification of character]…. The real source of the evil we complain of is… a fundamental & deplorable error by which we in this country have confused education with the acquisition of knowledge & interpreted knowledge itself in a singularly narrow & illiberal sense. To give the student knowledge is necessary, but it is still more necessary to build up in him the power of using his knowledge.... [The] graduate from our colleges may be a good clerk, a decent Vakil or a tolerable medical practitioner, but unless he is an especial genius, he will never be a great administrator or a great lawyer or an eminent medical specialist. These eminences have to be filled up mainly by Europeans. It an Indian wishes to rise to them, he has to travel thousands of miles over the sea in order to breathe an atmosphere of liberal knowledge, original science & sound culture. And even then he seldom succeeds, because his lungs are too debilitated to take in a good long breath of that atmosphere…. The easy assumption of our educationists that we have only to supply the mind with a smattering of facts in each department of knowledge & the mind can be trusted to develop itself & take its own suitable road, is contrary to science, contrary to human experience & contrary to the universal opinion of civilised countries. Indeed the history of intellectual degeneration in gifted races always begins with the arrest of these three mental powers by the excessive cultivation of mere knowledge at their expense. Much as we have lost as a nation, we have always preserved our intellectual alertness, quickness & originality; but even this last gift is threatened by our University system, & if it goes, it will be the beginning of irretrievable degradation & final extinction. ..... The very first step in reform must therefore be to revolutionize the whole aims & methods of our education. We must accustom teachers to devote nine-tenths of their energies to the education of the active mental faculties, while the passive retaining faculty, which we call the memory, should occupy a recognised & well-defined but subordinate place, & we must direct our school & university examinations to the testing of these active faculties & not of the memory…. There is in fact hardly any subject, the sciences of calculation excepted, which in the hands of a capable teacher does not give room for the development of all the general faculties of the mind. The first thing needed therefore is the entire & unsparing rejection of the present methods of teaching in favour of those which are now being universally adopted in the more advanced countries of Europe.... But even in the narrower sphere of knowledge acquisition to which our system has confined itself, it has been guilty of other blunders quite as serious. Apart from pure mathematics, which stands on a footing of its own, knowledge may be divided into two great heads, the knowledge of things & the knowledge of men, i.e. to say of human thought, human actions, human nature & human creations as recorded, preserved or pictured in literature, history, philosophy & art.... The humanities, mathematics & science are therefore the three sisters in the family of knowledge & any self-respecting system of education must in these days provide facilities for mastery in any one of these as well as for a modicum of all. The first great error of our system comes in here. While we insist on passing our students through a rigid & cast-iron course of knowledge in everything, we give them real knowledge in nothing. What does an average Bombay University graduate who has taken English Literature for his optional subject, know of that literature? He has read a novel of Jane Austen or the Vicar of Wakefield, a poem of Tennyson or a book of Milton, at most two plays of Shakespeare, a work of Bacon’s or Burke’s full of ideas which he is totally incompetent to digest & one or two stray books of Pope, Dryden, Spenser or other, & to crown this pretentious little heap of a mass of second-hand criticism dealing with poets & writers of whom he has not studied a single line. When we remember that English is the main study of our schools & colleges, what a miserable outturn is this, what a wretched little mouse out of that mountain of drudgery from which the voice of the oppressed student is heard painfully & monotonously repeating like Valmekie, his marā, marā, marā has not been converted into Rāma, Rāma, Rāma; for while he thinks he has been repeating the saving word which gives intellectual salvation, it has been unknown to him converted into a death dealing word which causes intellectual sterility & impotence.” [CWSA-1:357-62]
... published shortly after they were written. Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering. Editorial title. Sri Aurobindo delivered this talk to those attending the annual social gathering of Baroda College on 22 July 1899. At that time he was working as professor of English at Baroda College. The talk was published in The Baroda College Miscellany , vol. 5, no. 2 (September 1899) under the title... report used as our text); (3) Huzur Mulki Department R. No. 111. Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Resolving a Problem of Seniority in the High School. 3 May 1905. This opinion was written by Sri Aurobindo as acting principal of Baroda College in response to a representation of certain teachers in the Baroda High School (which was administered by the College)... Poetry. In the manuscript, "First Lecture" is written above the title. This piece and the following one were written by Sri Aurobindo while he was working as a professor of English literature at Baroda College between 1898 and 1901. The authors and periods covered by the two lectures were those assigned by the Bombay University for the "voluntary" section of the English B. A. examination in 1898 and ...
... uninterruptedly . . . until, in fact, I left Baroda Numerous documents in the Baroda State and Baroda College archives make it clear that Sri Aurobindo . ceased to teach at Baroda College in April 1901, and resumed teaching in September 1904 (see for example letter of 28 September 1904 reproduced on p. 163 of the ... Between the end of 1903 and September 1904, he had the title assistant Huzur Kamdar. In September 1904 he rejoined Baroda College as Vice-Principal and Professor of English (Baroda State Records, multiple items; Baroda College Records, multiple items). 59 He led the party again . . . at Hooghly... Principal, Baroda College. 18 September 1904 . During part of 1904 Sri Aurobindo held the post of assistant Huzur Kamdar (Crown Secretary). This is one of many letters he wrote on behalf of the Maharaja during this period. To the Dewan, on Rejoining the College. 28 September 1904 . In September 1904 Sri Aurobindo was allowed to leave the state administration and to return to Baroda College, where ...
... students 13. Sri K.M. Munshi, ex-governor of the Uttar Pradesh, who was one of the students of Sri Aurobindo at the Baroda College, writes: "My own contact with Sri Aurobindo dates back to 19 O2 when, after passing the Matriculation examination, I joined the Baroda College. Though previously I had, only on occasions, the privilege of being in personal contact with him, the Aurobindonian legend... Secretary. He was usually invited to breakfast with the Maharaja at the Palace and stayed on to do this work." Sri Aurobindo was loved and highly revered by his students 13 at Baroda College, not only for his profound knowledge of English literature and his brilliant and often original interpretations of English poetry, but for his saintly character and gentle and gracious manners... the gentle breath of spring - invisible but irresistible, it touched all that was bare and bleak around him to a splendour of renewed life and creative energy. In regard to his work at the Baroda College, he once remarked to some of his disciples: "He (Manmohan) was very painstaking. Most of the professors don't work so hard. I was not so conscientious as a professor. I never used to look at ...
... reported summary alone. Even so, a speech like the one he delivered before the College Social gathering in 1899, and later printed in the Baroda College Miscellany, can give us some idea at least of the content and quality of his speeches at the Baroda College. The subject is Oxford and Cambridge, and what Indian Universities should learn from them. What does life at Oxford or Cambridge mean to a... the light that shone in the eyes. The late Dr. C. R. Reddy, who succeeded Sri Aurobindo as Vice-Principal of the Baroda College, has left this on record: I had the honour of knowing him.... We had a number of friends in common. Mr. A. B. Clark, the principal of the Baroda College, remarked to me. "So you met Aurobindo Ghosh. Did you notice his eyes? There is mystic fire and light in them. They... then moved to the Stamps and Revenue Departments; and he also worked for some time in the Secretariat drawing up important despatches. From 1897, he became part-time lecturer in French at the Baroda College, and presently other work was also added, and 1900 he was appointed, on the strong recommendation of Principal Tait, as permanent Professor of English on a pay of Rs. 360 per month. In 1904 ...
... 1898 Sri Aurobindo was appointed professor of English. In 1899 he spoke on Oxford and Cambridge on the occasion of the Baroda College Social Gathering.³ In the year 1900 Principal Tait asked the Maharaja to appoint Sri Aurobindo as permanent professor of English in the Baroda College. In his proposal the principal spoke highly of his work and ability. The Maharaja granted the request. Sri Aurobindo's... From the Settlement Department he went over to the Revenue Department. He also worked for some in the Vahivatdar's office and in the Secretariat. Permanent work was finally given to him in the Baroda College. ¹ Brajendranath De, "Reminiscences of an Indian Member of the Indian Civil Service", The Calcutta Review, Vol. 132, No. 3 (September 1954), p. 181. ² Sri Aurobindo On Himself ( P... Another important thing I observed about him was his total absence of love for money, for which he never seemed to care. We all know that he was working as Professor of English Literature in the Baroda College. He was getting a decent salary of Rs.500 a month. It was his practise to receive his salary once in three months. In those days, payment was made in cash and not in currency notes as now. He used ...
... 1897 Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 Appointed acting Professor of English in the College. 1899 Serves as acting Professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 Acting Professor... Tilak at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. 1902-1903 Contacts and joins a secret society in western India. 1903 January Recommences teaching at the Baroda College. February 22 On leave for one month. May-August Accompanies the Gaekwar on his tour of Kashmir as his Private Secretary. In Kashmir on Takht-e-Suleman has an experience of the vacant... the College full time. December At the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. Begins the practice of Yoga. 1905 January Assumes the post of Vice-principal, Baroda College. March 3 Becomes acting Principal of the College. October 16 The Partition of Bengal becomes an "accomplished fact". Sri Aurobindo writes the pamphlets "No Compromise" and "Bhawani ...
... there was a suggestion that Sri Aurobindo could work in the Baroda College as a teacher of French. Later his services were lent informally to the College from time to time. Early in 1898 he was appointed Professor of English, and taught at the College in addition to his other official duties. Thus began his long association with the Baroda College which continued until he took extended leave in June 1906... the master of your style."' K.M. Munshi, a leading politician both before and after Independence, was a student at Baroda College for a time and writes: 'My own contact with Sri Aurobindo dates back to 1902 when after passing the Matriculation examination, I joined the Baroda College. Though previously, I had, only on occasions, the privilege of being in personal contact with him, the Aurobindonian ...
... poem. 1897 — Begins part-time work in the Baroda College as a lecturer in French. 1898 — Appointed acting professor of English in the College. 1899 — Serves as acting professor of English and lecturer in French. June-July Writes Love and Death, a narrative poem. July 22 Lecture at the Baroda College Social Gathering. 1900 — Acting professor... at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. 1902-1903 — Contacts and joins a secret society in western India. 1903—January Recommences regular teaching at the Baroda College. February 22 On leave for one month. May-August Accompanies the Gaekwar on his tour of Kashmir as his Private Secretary. In Kashmir on Takht-e-Suleman has an experience... Conference. Afterwards, makes a political tour of East Bengal with Bepin Chandra Pal. June Returns to Baroda. Page 813 June 19 Takes one year's leave without pay from Baroda College, returns to Bengal. August 6 Declaration of the Bande Mataram. Sri Aurobindo joins the Bande Mataram as an assistant editor. August 14 Opening of the Bengal National ...
... Mother India, devoted himself to editing the paper, Bande Mataram.” A strikingly sensitive evaluation of Sri Aurobindo's political work comes from an ex-professor of philosophy at the Baroda College, M.A. Buch, M.A., Ph.D., who writes in one of his books. Rise and Growth of Indian Militant Nationalism: "The most typical representative of Bengal Nationalism, in its most intense me... achieved unexampled success. He endeared himself to his students at the National College, who loved and adored him with the same intensity of devotion as he had received from his students at the Baroda College. When he would lecture in the class, they would hang upon his lips - it is said even many professors came in to listen - and they found in his informal, unacademic way of teaching something which... Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Leie113 and wired to him at Gwalior to come to Baroda and see Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo came to Baroda from Surat. Barin says in his autobiography that the Principal of the Baroda College had asked the students not to meet Sri Aurobindo or go to listen to his lectures, as he was then a nationalist politician. But the students, who were devoted to Sri Aurobindo and had been so much ...
... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings On a Proposed Examination for Teachers 09-August-1905 College Office. Baroda, 9th August 1905. To The Minister of Education BARODA. Sir, With reference to your letter No. 2047 dated the 28th May 1905 I have the honour to forward herewith my opinion... the rules for the Secondary Teachers' Certificate Examinations which it is intended to be introduced in our Raj. I have the honour to be Sir Your Most Obedient Servant A A G Ag. Principal, Baroda College. OPINION. I have gone very carefully through the scheme of the proposed examination for teachers and beg to give expression to the following opinions, which have been formed after very... Training College succeed first, and the general practical capacity of our teachers be set on a sure basis. We may go in for educational luxuries afterwards. ARAVIND A. GHOSE Ag. Principal, Baroda College Page 750 ...
... neither was my mother, in a manner of speaking. She wasn't at all well, her mind was very sick. As a matter of fact, it was quite some time before I could finally go home." "Did you teach at the Baroda College?" questioned Anshu. "Much later. At first I worked in the government office, as most I.C.S. chaps have to do. Like them, I too had to get acquainted with the various governmental departments... ear. Well, I had never mastered these arts and gradually I convinced him that I would be much more useful and effective if I worked in the Education Department. So I became a professor in the Baroda College. I started by teaching French. Only later did I teach English." "French? Why French, in those days?" "The Maharaja was a liberal-minded and refined scholar. Page 90 He greatly... that once they had learned to love the beauty and sweetness of French literature, they would master the grammatical rules of the language by themselves." "Didn't you teach English poetry at the Baroda College?" asked Vikas. "Not just poetry, but English literature in general." "It appears that the students greatly enjoyed your lectures." "Lectures?" "Your classes, that is." "Oh! Well ...
... Bengal, and he had even tried through Yoga to perfect the instrument that was one day to be wholly consecrated to the service of the Mother. In the meantime, he was a Professor of literature at the Baroda College, and he was watching the shifting political scene and he was waiting for the divinely ordained moment when his open intervention would become imperative. He was like a tiger poised in readiness... Gujarat, now lost in the ocean of Calcutta humanity scouring the underground waters of discontent and revolutionary idealism. During 1905-6, Sri Aurobindo was ostensibly in the service of the Baroda College. From March 1905 to February 1906, he acted as Principal on a consolidated salary of Rs.. 710 per month. When a public meeting was held in Baroda in September to protest against the Bengal partition... close collaborator. Mullick seems to have stipulated that Sri Aurobindo should be appointed a professor in the College on a salary of Rs. 150, and this was of course done. 20 Thus on leaving the Baroda College, Sri Aurobindo had waiting for him the Principalship of the new Bengal National College, with Satish Chandra Mukherjee as its Superintendent. After a stay of almost fourteen years, Sri Aurobindo ...
... motionless — and the language flowed like a stream from his lips with a natural ease and melody that kept the audience spell-bound.... Though it is more than fifty years since I heard him on the Baroda College platform," wrote Patkar, "I still remember his figure and the metallic ring of his sweet melodious voice as if I heard him yesterday." Patkar deeply cherished the memory of his former Professor... was very happy over it, for First Class at that time was rare. As a result of getting First Class I was offered a scholarship in Elphinstone College [Bombay]. He tried to dissuade me from leaving Baroda College but due to my pecuniary 1. Lord Curzon vehemently opposed the teaching of it: "Though as a composition it is excellent, it is certainly dangerous food for Indian students." Page... remember how he appreciated Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice, in which I took part as Portia. Barindra, his younger brother, was also there during those days. Later Sri Aurobindo left Baroda College and joined the National College in Calcutta. His articles in the Bande Mataram used to inspire me greatly. I still remember one of his articles which appeared in this paper under the caption ...
... His monthly pay was accordingly increased to Rs. 300. He became very active in the College. He was elected President of the Managing Committee of the Baroda State Library, was the Chairman of the Baroda College Union, and took charge of the Debating Society and the College Miscellany. For the work done for him by A. Ghose in his spare time, the Maharaja increased the pay to Rs. 360 from April 1899... Ghose, the Maharaja decreed that "Mr. Ghose's official designation will be that of Vice-Principal." Thus from Page 21 27 September 1904 Sri Aurobindo became the Vice-Principal of Baroda College. His pay was Rs. 550 a month. From 3 March 1905 A. Ghose was made the Acting Principal of the College —when A. B. Clarke, the new Principal, went on leave —and now earned Rs. 710. He also... Schools for boys, schools for girls. Education was made available to children of all classes and castes. He took up the cause of removal of untouchability and the welfare of tribal people. The Baroda College —its activities financed from State funds —was built in 1881 in the State's capital Baroda. "When I knew him," recalled Sri Aurobindo in 1936, "the Gaekwad was a free-thinker without any religion; ...
... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings On a Head Assistant for the High School 13-September-1905 Concise History History in short The Baroda High School has for some time been increasing in numbers, until now it has reached the very large number of 750. It is high time therefore that in view... discipline of the Baroda High School? (2) If so, should Mr. D. M. Patel be appointed to that post? Opinion (1) Yes. (2)Yes. Baroda 15ṭḥ September 1905 ARAVIND A. GHOSE Ag. Principal Baroda College Opinion Forwarded with the recommendation that the proposal of the Principal of the College may be sanctioned. The reason why this Tippan is sent during the absence of K. B. Dalal on ...
... sadness: 'their' Professor was now a political leader of all-India stature. We may note too that many of those who served the country under B. G. Tilak's leadership were Sri Aurobindo's students from Baroda College. Just as Auro-dada had tried to kindle the spirits of his brother and cousins at Deoghar with patriotic fire, so did Prof. A. Ghose with his students. K. M. Munshi was one of them. Munshi... more towards Sri Aurobindo. On 2 July 1950 he met Sri Aurobindo. We came across two texts 1 by Munshi where he described what he saw. "As you may know, Sri Aurobindo was my professor in the Baroda College, and his militant nationalism of 1904 moulded my early outlook. Later, I casually read some of his works. During the last few years, however, his influence has been coming over upon me intermittently ...
... eyes of Sri Aurobindo; or sparkling with humour; or with a smile of recognition, reports Sisir Mitra. Even the English Principal of the Baroda College, A. B. Clarke, said to C. R. Reddy who had succeeded Sri Aurobindo as the Vice-Principal of the Baroda College, and later to be the Vice-Chancellor of the Andhra Page 462 University: "So you met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice his ...
... 1894, April 8 — Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July- August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Induprakash. 1897 - Sri Aurobindo begins to teach at the Baroda College, as a lecturer in French; teaches English also the following year. January 15 — Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India. ... of Relativity and postulates the existence of the photon. - Sri Aurobindo writes Bhawani Mandir. -Mother meets Max Theon. January — Sri Aurobindo becomes Vice-Principal of the Baroda College. January 22 -"Bloody Sunday" massacre in St. Petersburg: repression from the Czar against petitioners. April 4 - Severe earthquake in Kangra (India); thousands dead. Page 585 ...
... Opinions Written as Acting Principal, Baroda College (1905) Early Cultural Writings Resolving a Problem of Seniority in the High School 03-May-1905 College Office Baroda 3ṛḍ. May 05. Mr Nag was appointed in the Baroda High School by His Highness the Maharaja Sahib but being on leave has not yet joined his appointment. I believe that His Highness... utilise Mṛ Nag's services in any way in future either in this Department or elsewhere without any disturbance to the regular grades of the English Schools. ARAVIND. A. GHOSE Ag. Principal Baroda College Page 746 × A printed representation by the graduate teachers in the second grade of the Baroda High ...
... Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Principal, Baroda College L. V. Palace. 18-9-04. My dear Mr Clarke, Under His Highness' directions I have written to the Chief Engineer not to build the rooms for the students' quarters as yet. His Highness wants to make some important alterations in the... whenever it is thought desirable to build, orders can at once be given without going each time into details and estimates. Yours sincerely Aravind. A. Ghose. A. B. Clarke Esq. Principal Baroda College. ...
... Jadhavs' house; Lele took him to Majumdar's house for meditation on the top floor. Shri Arvind Ghosh ... joined Baroda State Service in February 1893 as an extra professor of English in the Baroda College ... Incorrect. ... on a salary of Rs. 300/–a month. It was 200/ not 300/. His age as recorded in State papers on 31st July 1899 was 26 years, 2 months and 22 days. Page 39... Secretary to H.H. the Maharaja of Baroda.... Whether as the Maharaja's Private Secretary or as an officer in the Revenue Department or as Professor of English and later as Vice-Principal in the Baroda College, Sri Aurobindo always conscientiously "delivered the goods". Appointed Private Secretary not the fact. He was first sent to the Settlement Department, the idea being to train him for Revenue ...
... masterwork of nearly twenty-four thousand lines as we know it today. In 1897 Aurobindo Babu, though still frequently called on by the Gaekwad for secretarial work, became lecturer in French at the Baroda College. In 1898 he was appointed Professor of English, in addition to his other official duties. By now his financial position had become so secure that he advertised in Calcutta newspapers for a bride... the earth to accomplish this great mission.’ 36 Leader of Nationalism Despite the inroads the Gaekwad made into his academic career, Aurobindo Babu became the vice-principal of the Baroda College in 1904 and its acting Principal in 1905. He had earned a reputation as a professor, filling the students with deep respect for ‘the Aurobindonian legend.’ The reason for this reputation was, on ...
... t year. He came to India in 1893 and joined the Baroda State Service. He served from 1898 as the acting Professor of English and lecturer in French in the Baroda College. On June 19, 1906, he took one year's leave without pay from Baroda College and returned to Bengal. He became the Principal of the Bengal National College. He plunged into political activities for the liberation of his motherland and ...
... Baroda on 8 February. He moved from the Land Settlement Department, where he had his first assignment, to the Stamps Office, then to the Central Revenue Office and the Secretariat, and so at last to Baroda College, first as Lecturer in French, and later as Professor of English and Vice-Principal. Fourteen years in England, especially at so impressionable a period of his life, should have ... poems on which Sri Aurobindo was then engaged there was one on Savitri also. And, referring to a later period (probably 1905), C.R. Reddy has stated that once A.B. Clark, then Principal of the Baroda College, remarked to him: "So you met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice his eyes? There is mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond....If Joan of Arc heard heavenly voices, Aurobindo ...
... vast, that encircles me, Page 244 Rabindranath, O Aurobindo, bows to thee. 41 The students of the Baroda College - his own students of but yesterday - sent this message: "We the students, past and present, of the Baroda College, in a meeting assembled, convey our warmest sympathy to our late Vice-Principal Mr. Ghose in ,. present trouble." And a contributor ...
... only very little of this immense body of work was actually published during the Baroda period - a few pieces in Songs to Myrtilla (1895), some of Bhartrihari's 'The Century of Life' in the Baroda College Miscellany and the early narrative poem Urvasie (1896). During Sri Aurobindo's editorship of the Bande Mataram and later of the Karmayogin, some of his poems including Baji Prabhou and... moves men's hearts even today, and moves more than trumpets or bugle-sounds. VII Some of Sri Aurobindo's English renderings from Bhartrihari seem to have originally appeared in the Baroda College Miscellany in the eighteen nineties.55 But the Niti Shataka as a whole - carrying the title The Century of Life - was published only in 1924. The renderings - "free" rather than literal ...
... dictation and our writing commenced." Other students confirm this, some saying that Prof. Ghose asked them to read only the last sentence. "While dictating," went on Page 213 Baroda College early this century Didmishe, "he sat on the chair and looked at the photo of Principal Tait on the wall in front. He had no books or notes with him; everything was extempore. This procedure... first to take the initiative in forming an army of Bengalis by inducting Bengalis into the Bengal regiment; similarly he was foremost in forming the Bengal Territorial Force. As Chairman of the Baroda College Union, Professor A. Ghose was required to deliver "a few speeches at functions in the Palace itself such as the reception of Dr. S. K. Mullick." Now, it so happened that Dr. Manilal —my friend ...
... Early Cultural Writings Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering 22-July-1899 In addressing you on an occasion like the present, it is inevitable that the mind should dwell on one feature of this gathering above all others. Held as it is towards the close of the year, I am inevitably reminded that many of its prominent members are with ...
... in Baroda; yet he is recorded as saying, "I translated the Shwetashwatara Upanishad while I was in Bengal." It is possible that he did the translation in Bengal during one of his vacations from Baroda College between 1902 and 1906. He retranslated the fourth chapter in Pondicherry several years later. The early translation of chapters 4 to 6 was first published in the 1971 edition of The Upanishads ...
... but culturally backward Baroda of the end of the nineteenth century after having lived for more than thirteen years in places like Manchester, London and Cambridge. In due course he became at the Baroda College lecturer in French, professor of English and Vice-Principal. The prince also used him as his unofficial private secretary, especially for writing his speeches and the history of his reign. Hardly ...
... photographers are former students of the Baroda Kalabhavan and that this institution is producing silently and unobtrusively this among other admirable results. Aravind. A. Ghose Vice Principal, Baroda College 28 Feb. 1906 Page 165 ...
... from the British rulers. Page 10 (On his return to India, Sri Aurobindo joined the Baroda State Service; from 1897 to early 1906 he taught French and English at the Baroda College, eventually becoming its principal. These years gave him a first-hand experience of the dismal condition of education in India and made him feel an acute need for a true national education.) ...
... 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, "...There is a mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond. If Joan of Arc heard heavenly voices, Aurobindo probably sees heavenly visions." Upen Banerjee, a close associate ...
... happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri Aurobindo assimilated in ...
... happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his Personal Secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1906, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that Sri Aurobindo assimilated in himself ...
... our hearts, for that is where the Mandir has to be built. We have now come to the closing period of Sri Aurobindo's stay at Baroda. In March 1905 Sri Aurobindo took over as acting Principal at Baroda College and he held that position until February 1906 when he took privilege leave to go to Bengal. Meanwhile much was happening in that province. On October 16, 1905, the Partition of Bengal had become ...
... Now he was in the forefront of Indian politics, having inspired in a whole nation the ideal of freedom, giving to this a spiritual content and significance not known before. The Principal of the Baroda College had directed the students not to leave their classes and meet Sri Aurobindo, but they simply ignored the ban. When Sri Aurobindo was being taken in a procession, they ran out, unyoked the horses ...
... moving downwards when he threw away a glittering career in the ICS and retired into an unpretentious State job in Baroda. Having risen high in the Baroda Service and acted as the Principal of the Baroda College, he gave up that affluent position of security and prestige. For a time he worked from behind the scene until he appeared brilliantly upon the political horizon, and when everybody's eyes were ...
... yet. 220Chief Minister, principal advisor to the Maharajah. 221A great Bengali preacher. 222Magazine. Page 151 He is the vice-principal of the Baroda college." Mead said, "It is a pity that the man is an Indian and has had to come to this country. He would have been a famous professor in Cambridge. Well, Dutt, remember me to him when you meet him and ...
... translation was completed by Sri Aurobindo during the early years of his stay in Pondicherry, although most of it was done earlier, a few pieces having been published in a magazine of the Baroda College in the 1890's. Some of the epigrams appeared in the Karmayogin, March 19, 1910 and in the Arya, December 1917 and November 1918. SABCL: Translations, Vol. 8 ...
... restricted life of his home and school and finds himself in surroundings which with astonishing rapidity expand his intellect, strengthen his character, develop his social faculties, ¹ Baroda College Miscellany, Vol. V, No. 11 (September 1899), pp. 28-33. The address was given on 22 July 1899. Page 315 force out all his abilities and turn him in three years from a boy ...
... and activities (secret and open), such were his plans and hopes, such his far-sighted vision of the unfolding future possibility. To the outside world, he was still a Professor of English at the Baroda College, and presently its Vice-principal, and for a time its Acting Principal. But poetry, politics and Yoga were the ruling elements within, and meantime he waited, - and even when he was ready and ...
... evening, and found him a nice man who was quick to understand things. Next morning he had an interview with Sri Aurobindo whom he had known as a senior colleague over forty years earlier at the Baroda College. They were together for about thirty minutes, and Dr. Reddy personally offered the gold medal and cheque to Sri Aurobindo. Later, Dr. Reddy went round the Ashram, and in the evening witnessed in ...
... from India to England. Having qualified for the I.C.S. (the "heaven-born" Service), he manoeuvred to withdraw from it; having risen high in the Baroda Service and become Acting Principal of the Baroda College, he withdrew from that prison of affluent security and plunged into the maelstrom of politics and revolution; at the height of his influence after Surat, he withdrew to a quietude of Nirvanic ...
... no doubt all wit and elegance and, if we know our A. A. Ghose, wide-ranging and deep.* In October 1890 Sri Aurobindo was eighteen years old. Several years later, when he was a professor at Baroda College, 1. Friction matches. Invented in 1827 by the English chemist John Walker. In 1829, a manufacturing unit was opened in London by Samuel Jones. 'Lucifer' means light-bringer, which is Satan's ...
... were attracted by the Principal's method of teaching, and his personality. Their love and adoration for Sri Aurobindo was not a degree less than the devotion he was accorded by his students at Baroda College. "When he would lecture in the class," wrote Rishabhchand, 1 "they would hang upon his lips —it is said even many professors came in to listen —and they found in his informal, unacademic way of ...
... Sakharia Baba were with him in the reserved compartment of the train. In that biting cold of Gujarat, Sri Aurobindo was going about with one shirt, and cheap canvas shoes. The Principal of Baroda College had issued orders to students that they were not to meet Sri Aurobindo nor even go to hear his lectures. But students are students, and who can restrain the impetuosity of youth? As soon as the ...
... years, from 1893 to 1906, in the Baroda Service, first in the Revenue Department and in secretariat work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally, Vice-Principal in the Baroda College. These were years of self-culture, of literary activity—for much of the poetry afterwards published from Pondicherry was written at this time—and of preparation for his future work. In England ...
... Sri Aurobindo attached much importance. He had been disgusted with the education given by the British system in the schools and colleges and universities, a system of which as a professor in the Baroda College he had full experience. He felt that it tended to dull and impoverish and tie up the naturally quick and brilliant and supple Indian intelligence, to teach it bad intellectual habits and spoil ...
... Otherwise, except for a few speeches at functions in the Palace itself such as the reception of Dr. S. K. Mullick which had nothing to do [with] 1 politics, he spoke mainly as Chairman of the Baroda College Union, there was no objection made at any time and he continued to preside over some of these debates until he left Baroda. It was in England while at Cambridge that he made revolutionary speeches ...
... is when did Vivekananda write that or what led him to take notice of me. I no longer remember when he left his body, but my impression is that it was when I was a blissfully obscure Professor of Baroda College and neither in politics nor Yoga had put on the tedious burden of fame. Why then should Vivekananda say anything about me at all, much Page 164 less a thing like that—unless it was ...
... h, 13 Banerji, Surendranath, 17 Bangladesh, 15(fn) Bankim, see under Charleroi Baptista, Joseph, 148 barbarians. 126 barbarism, 103, 127, 175,239 Barin, see under Ghose Baroda, II, 35 Baroda College , II battle, 45 -46 ,51 , 102, 123-126, 143-144, 206,207, 238·240 beauty, 66 , 68, 103 , 127.217.218,220 Bengal, 39 , 111.112, 152, 153, 222,246 atrocities on Hindus in, 203, 241-242 awakening ...
... -Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; he will become its Vice-Principal in 1905. 1897, Jan. 15 - Swami Vivekananda lands at Colombo, and on his way north delivers many lectures throughout India. c. 1900 ...
... sakshi fixed by adhyaropa on the central images,—rupa & karma were correct, nama only confused,—eg the Salle de Lecture of Pondicherry adhyaropita on a small but efficient & nobly built library, the Baroda College or a place of education in the same locality, London, brother, sister etc being brought in & fixed on forms & places entirely different. There was also a tendency to run different dreams into each ...
... quite by accident, a functionary in the administration of the Maharaja of Baroda. Soon he was acting as the Maharaja’s secretary and was appointed professor of English and lecturer in French at Baroda College. He was now fully involved in the study of Sanskrit, his mother tongue Bengali and other Indian languages, as well as the Indian classics. He also grew more and more involved in the freedom struggle ...
... happened to be there at that time, and Sri Aurobindo accepted the proposal to be his personal secretary, and returned to India. Soon thereafter, however, Sri Aurobindo switched over to the Baroda College as Professor of French and then of English, and when in 1905, he left for Bengal, he was the acting Principal of the College. It was during the Baroda period that he assimilated in himself the ...
... important a place Education, in the true sense of the word, occupies in the life, writings and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sri Aurobindo was a professor and later Vice Principal at the Baroda College from 1897 to 1905. In 1906, he came to Calcutta as the Principal of the newly founded Bengal National College. At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother laid the foundation of a new centre of ...
... d literary critic. But not many people know that he has been a great educationist as well. Even those who are aware of the fact that Sri Aurobindo was a very successful teacher, — first at the Baroda College during the years 1899 and 1906, then in the Bengal National College, Calcutta, in the years 1906 and 1907, — have not much cared to study his educational thoughts and insights or may not even be ...
... not according to the common conception of a university.... Everybody will be taught to work, not with any profit motive, but with a spirit of service. 27 Already as a Professor at the Baroda College in the eighteen-nineties, Sri Aurobindo had felt keenly the inadequacies of the ruling system of education (a half-hearted transplantation of the British system which had its detractors even in ...
... famous sessions of the Bengal Provincial Conference at Barisal, after which toured and lectured in the districts of East Bengal. June: Took one year's leave without pay from Baroda College. Joined the newly-started National College in Calcutta as Principal. August: The Bande Mataram was started by Bepinchandra Pal. Sri Aurobindo joined ...
... thirteen years, from 1893 to 1906 in the Baroda Service,first in the Revenue Department and in Secretariat work for the Maharaja, afterwards as Professor of English and, finally Vice-principal in the Baroda College. In England he received, according to his father's express instructions an entirely occidental, education without any contact with the culture of India and the East. At Baroda he made up the deficiency ...
... from Gwalior (where he was staying at the time) to Baroda. Sri Aurobindo's own return after the lapse of a year and a half created a great sensation in Baroda. Although the Principal of the Baroda College had directed the students not to go out to meet Sri Aurobindo, they did just the opposite; they ran out of their classes, let loose the horses that were yoked to the chariot in which he was ...
... community of Baroda had a great respect for the young man's uncommon gifts. From February 1898, when he was first appointed Extra Professor of English, Sri Aurobindo was associated with the Baroda College until he left the State Service in 1906; at the time he was the Acting Principal of the College. By the time Dinendra Kumar Roy came to Baroda in late 1898, A. Ghose, then twenty-six years ...
... Page 140 advantageously put. The Huzur will also occasionally direct the uses to be made of Mr. Ghose's services. (5) If convenient Mr. Ghose's services can be utilised in the Baroda College, only care should be taken that his interests do not suffer in any way by his services being lent to the College for some time. Camp Coonoor.Sayaji Rao Gaekwar 6 August 1902 ...
... education system. "He had been," as he himself put it, "disgusted with the education given by the British system in the schools and colleges and universities, a system of which as a professor in the Baroda College he had full experience. He felt that it tended to dull and impoverish and tie up the naturally quick and brilliant and supple Indian intelligence, to teach it bad intellectual habits and spoil ...
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