Bhagalpur : a town just south of Ganga, in Bhāgalpūr district, Bihar. It was the place Dr K.D. Ghose was first sent by the Govt.’s Medical Department. “Sri Aurobindo’s paternal uncle, Bāmā Charan was head-clerk in the Bhagalpur Commissioner’s office,” says D.K. Roy who, hired by Sri Aurobindo to enrich his Bengali, lived in his house in Baroda c.1898-1900: “Once, Sri Aurobindo went there to meet him. I remember he was invited to dine at his uncle’s house. In fact, it doesn’t seem that Sri Aurobindo was close to his father’s family. He rather preferred his maternal uncle & grandfather & was close to his mother’s family.” [D.K. Roy, Aurobindo Prasanga, Mother India, Dec.1959; Buckland] This is epitaph on a tomb of Augustus Cleveland (1755-84) built by Warren Hastings at Bhāgalpūr in 1784: “Who, without bloodshed or terrors of authority, employing only the means of conciliation, confidence, & benevolence, attempted & accomplished the entire subjection of the lawless & savage inhabitants of the jungle-territory of Rājmahal, who had long infested the neighbouring lands by their predatory incursions, inspired them with a taste for arts of civilised life, & attached them to the British Govt. by a conquest over their minds, the most permanent as the most rational mode of dominations.” Sri Aurobindo knew that Hastings had Cleveland interred in South Park Street Cemetery, Calcutta, under a lengthier epitaph. The empty tomb was just so the local natives knelt at it to venerate Cleveland’s arrogant reign as collector & judge of Bhagalpur, Monghyr & Rājmahal districts. Which thinking Indian would fail to conclude Hastings’ conquest over their minds, the most permanent as the most rational mode of dominations. [See Scott’s Lane]
... at Bhaugalpore." That is how Dr. K. D. Ghose came to Bhagalpur (then in Bengal). He went there with his wife, Swarnalata. Essentially a man of action, he became immensely popular in the districts he served. There were always those who frowned. Lotika Ghose 2 tells us that under his dynamic inspiration, there was formed the Bhagalpur Brahmika Society for women. This society was more radical than... Page 93 Book 1882 has this to report: "After Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose had joined the Bhagalpur Brahmo Samaj it received a strong impetus to work social reform. This was mainly directed towards the improvement of women.... In fact such was the attention bestowed by the Bhagalpur Brahmika Society to the improvement of ladies that in some quarters their actions were made the subject... in Benares. Her widowed eldest daughter, Biraj Mohini, was her companion. Every six months, K. D. used to go there to see them. His younger brother, Bamacharan settled Page 90 in Bhagalpur where he found a government job as head-clerk to the Commissioner. Their youngest sister, Tinkori, was married to one Nabakumar Mitra; Krishna Dhan helped enormously in their son Ashutosh's education ...
... studies. I left the school. My father then sent me to my brother Norendra, who is Assistant Jailer, Bhagalpur, to get some work to do or to continue my studies, my father’s objection being that I should thereby cut off all connection with the agitation that was going on in Khulna. I remained in Bhagalpur about a fortnight and then fled to Calcutta and put up in 46, Ramtanu Bose’s lane, students’ and officers’... and secondly because I failed in 2 subjects in a School Examination. Q: What did you do then? A: My father sent me to Sahebganj to my brother Narendra Kumar Sircar, who was assistant Jailor at Bhagalpur. My father wished me either to get employment or continue my studies. I had no mind to learn at the Calcutta University or to get an official employment. I therefore left my brother after about 15 ...
... from hysteria. When Dr. Ghose returned from Britain he joined the civil medical service, beginning work as a Sub-Assistant Surgeon in Calcutta, but the greater period of his service was spent at Bhagalpur, ' Rangpur and Khulna. At Rangpur he managed to get a drainage work done, which was called "K. D. Canal" by the people. After 1884 he served at Khulna, remaining there till his death. Wherever he... children, – five sons and a daughter : Benoybhushan, Manmohan, Aurobindo, a son who died in childhood, Sarojini and Barindra Kumar. K. D. Ghose had a brother, Bama Charan Ghose, who served at Bhagalpur as a head clerk. The two brothers did not agree with each other. Page 2 ...
... Bureaucratic Alarms 30-July-1907 We would call the especial attention of our readers to the interesting communication from a Bhagalpur correspondent in another column. The exaggerated praise which was showered by the Bhagalpur vendors of loyalty on officials who had little or nothing to do with the actual fight with the plague, is an example of the value of these addresses. ...
... Defence 14-September-1906 The strictures which the extraordinary announcement made at Bhagalpur by Babu Surendranath Banerji has aroused, have compelled the Bengalee to offer a sort of apology or explanation for the unconstitutional action of the leaders. It was distinctly stated at Bhagalpur that Mr. Dadabhai Naoroji had accepted the Presidentship of the Congress. It follows therefore that ...
... from Mother. It should be interesting to note here that the price of the house was paid by borrowing the amount which was repaid in time out of the sale-proceeds of our ancestral house at Bhagalpur. The Bhagalpur house fetched us exactly the same amount that was paid for Shyam House. At one point of time, the Government of India had come out with a scheme under which remittances to India in ...
... Karmayogin Passing Thoughts The Bhagalpur Literary Conference The prevalence of annual conferences in the semi-Europeanised life of Bengal is a curious phenomenon eloquent of the unreality of our present culture and the inefficiency of our modernised existence. Our old life was well, even minutely organised on an intelligent and consistent Oriental ...
... Tughlakabad Institutional Area New Delhi -110062 189.Singh, Rajinder Director, Sports Authority of India 117 Sharda Niketan Delhi 190.Singh, Ramjee Bhikhanpur Bhagalpur-812001 (Bihar) 191.Singh, S.P. C/o. Professor S.P. Singh Fellow, MSRWP 36 Tughlakabad Institutional Area New Delhi -110062 192. Singh, Sheela M-265 Greater Kailash ...
... does not know truly, aspire sincerely to the supermind.'' * * * 9 & 10.12.72 Pranam only. * * * 11.12.72 My eldest uncle aged 92 has expired at Bhagalpur. His son prays for peace to the departed soul. Mother inquired and gave a blessing packet for his son. * * * 12.12.72 Mother disposed of a family's request to join Auroville ...
... being released from the army. The Mother gave him a room and I stayed with him until 1956 at which time he left. He got several schools started on the lines of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo; one in Bhagalpur, one at the Delhi Ashram and one in Bangalore. It was in 1962 that he invited me to help him as a teacher in Bangalore. Did you go? I asked the Mother. She replied to me in strong and touching ...
... After completing his medical studies in England, Krishna Dhan returned to India in 1871 and joined the civil medical service of the Government, serving with great distinction as a Civil Surgeon at Bhagalpur and then at Rangpur and Khulna. He came back to India a 'pucca sahib', determined to model himself on the British and throw away all Indian ways of life, customs and manners. Krishna Dhan admired ...
... authority. He refused to perform the prayaschitta, and, selling away his property at a nominal price, left his native village for good and all. He was posted as a Civil Surgeon successively at Bhagalpur, Rangpur and 1. The Karmayogin - 7th and a few subsequent issues of the paper. 2. "Aurobindo’s maternal grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose, formed once a secret society of which Tagore, ...
... place of his birth, Krishnadhan moved from district to district as the Government Civil Surgeon, endearing himself to the people everywhere by his innumerable acts of charity and benevolence. In Bhagalpur, Rungpur and Khulna — especially in the last place — Dr. Krishnadhan's name became almost a household word. "Wherever he served," writes Purani, "he was very popular and highly respected by all. ...
... bitterness against the English. Then in July 1885 Dr. Ghose was reverted to Khulna. He was to remain there for the next eight years, until the end of 1892 when he died ... in harness. It was in Bhagalpur that Benoybhusan and Manmohan Page 107 were born. Calcutta was Sri Aurobindo's birthplace. After him one child, the fourth son, died. Then at Rangpur, on 3 September 1877, ...
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