Bhattacharya, Abinash Chandra : (1882-1962) published Bartamān Rananīti (modern method of warfare), Mukti kon Pothe (Which Way Freedom?), & other books. In his reminiscence on Sri Aurobindo in 1950, he wrote: – Towards the end of 1902…at a house at 108C Upper Circular Road in Calcutta…a thin young man called me inside & asked me to sit down…. [He] told me he was Aurobindo Ghose’s younger brother…. Sri Aurobindo had sent him to work along with Jatin-babu (see Banerji, Jatin)…. [We] began the work of collecting boys for the secret society. In the evenings we used to read & discuss all sorts of books on revolution & biographies of such men as Garibaldi, Cavour & Mazzini…. Opposite our house there was a big vacant lot; here the first akhāra was started for teaching the use of lāthi & gadkā, as well as horse-riding, cycling, etc. When the boys began to get numerous, it was decided, on Barrister P. Mitra’s advice, to delegate the charge of opening new akhāras of this type in different parts of Calcutta to Satish-babu, a resident of Bechu Chatterji Street. We handed over to him our two horses & all our lāthis & sticks…. In the early part of 1903, Aurobindo-babu…came [&] put up at Jatin-babu’s residence…. I did pranam to him & hardly had sat down before him when Barin said: “Sejda, his name is Abinash Bhattacharya, Bengal’s first volunteer.” I said, “I’m not the first…. Barin countered: “No…. You were the first person we found in Bengal, the first to give up everything & plunge into our work. So you are Bengal’s first volunteer.” With great concentration Aurobindo-babu looked into my eyes for a long time. I felt completely thrown off balance – it seemed as if he were wringing out my inmost being. I could neither shut my eyes nor avert them. My heart began to pound. Then Aurobindo-babu looked at my forehead, examined it by pressing; after this he looked at my eye-brows. He lifted my eyelids & looked. Suddenly he pushed my head down & began examining it by pressing. Finally he said: “Your first recruit is quite fine. He is a determined, faithful & silent worker.” In March 1906, Our Yugāntar appeared. A few days later, after settling all his affairs in Baroda, Aurobindo-babu joined us. [He] stayed in Raja Subodh Mullick’s house. I went to see him almost every day. One day he told me: “Abinash, I can’t stay here – can you arrange something else?”…. [I] rented a house on Chakku Khānsama Lane, where Barindra, I, Sarojini-didi, & others stayed with him for some time. Later we moved to No. 23 Scott’s Lane. Barindra did not stay at No. 23. Our work was steadily developing into something serious & so for reasons of security & convenience Aurobindo-babu divided it up. Barindra was to look after the bombs & so forth in the Muraripukur Garden. He would direct the bomb-section from there while I would be in charge of the publication-section…. In the house on Scott’s Lane, Aurobindo-babu stayed with his wife Mrinālini Devi, his sister Sarojini-didi & myself. After a while, I brought Sailen Bose too. I observed Aurobindo-babu’s day-to-day life very attentively…. Sometimes I borrowed from Mr Hemendraprasad Ghosh & then tried to pay him back at my convenience. Those who came in touch with Aurobindo-babu were captivated by his simple, childlike laughter & behaviour. Whenever I gave him a fond scolding, he broke out in laughter. On Shivarātri day, all of us fasted & went to Belur Math. When the evening prasād was distributed Aurobindo-babu noticed I was wondering whether to eat it or not, & said: “Eat up, eat up.” I replied: “I was wondering whether I should, since we’re fasting today.” He smiled: “But isn’t this the prasād of Ramakrishnadev? Eat it up quickly.” All the sedition cases – against Yugāntar, Bande Mataram, Sandhyā, etc. – were heard by Kingsford. When I learned that the respected Manoranjan Guhā Thākurtā had decided to wind up his daily Navashakti, I told Aurobindo-babu that if he allowed me, I would speak to Manoranjan about taking over the charge of running the paper. Aurobindo-babu consented gladly. The very next day, I went to Manoranjan-babu’s house in Giridih & asked him to hand over the charge of the paper to me. He… said: “I will give you the whole press & everything else if you can save Navashakti.” ― “You don’t have to give it away; the press & everything having to do with Navashakti will still be yours. I will only manage it, you will be the editor. I just need four thousand rupees for the preliminary expenses. After this you won’t have to give anything else.” He thought a while & then said: “Fine, here is what remains of my capital.” In the last issue of Navashakti there was a notice that Abinash Bhattacharya had taken over the management of Navashakti & that for two weeks there would be no issue so that the new arrangements could be made. In two weeks’ time Navashakti would appear again in a new form, & so forth. Many handbills were distributed with the same information. After I returned from Giridih, we all left the house at Scott’s Lane & put up at the Navashakti office. Aurobindo-babu used to go to the Bande Mataram office from here. I got especially caught up in the preparations for the publication of Navashakti Before two full weeks had passed (on 30 April 1908) the bomb exploded at Muzaffarpur. On the night of May 1st at 8 o’clock, I brought five rifles & five bags of cartridges & kept them in a room downstairs on the ground floor. The reason I had brought this stuff – much against my wishes – was that someone was to take it from me. It had to be removed that very night. I waited anxiously for Aurobindo-babu, to ask him where to take it. He came at 10 o’clock at night. I told him everything including the possibility of our being arrested the next morning. For that evening I had gone to the Lal Bazar Police Court area to try to find out the reactions there to the Muzaffarpur bomb explosion. I told Aurobindo-babu what I had learned. He asked me to go to the Garden at once & ask Barindra to remove everything from the Navashakti office & to shift all the boys that were living at the Garden to another place that very night. I went to the Garden & brought back Barindra & six other workers. They took everything & disappeared. Our fears were realised. On the second of May, early in the morning, Aurobindo-babu, Sailen-babu & I were arrested from 23, Scott’s Lane. Barindra, Upen, Ullāskar & others were arrested at the same time at the Muraripukur Garden. This case against us was called the Alipur Bomb Case or the Manicktolla Bomb Case. In May 1909 Abinash was sentenced to transportation for life & sent with others to the Andamans. I was the first to return from the Andamans (May 1915). Almost four years later, Hem-da & Ullāskar came back. I met Aurobindo-babu again for the first time in fourteen years in Pondicherry. I was with him for a month. Every day we used to talk on various subjects.” [“Sri Aurobindo” in Mother India, July 2012, pp.528-39] ― Thereafter, Abinash was associated with many journals, including the Nārāyaṇa.
... Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram A New Literary Departure 07-October-1907 We have received from the publisher Srijut Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya, a small volume in Bengali, entitled Bartaman Rananiti or "The Modern Science of War". The book is a small manual which seeks to describe for the benefit of those who, like the people ...
... met him at the Jugantar Office where I used to get the Jugantar newspaper: the office is at 41 Champatola 1st Lane. I assisted at publishing the newspaper. Q: Who were managing it then? A: Abinash Chandra Bhattacharjee was Manager and there were also helping in the office Upendra Nath Banerjee, Barindra Kumar Ghose, Dindayal and Sailendra Ghose, Dindayal was only living there; He was employed by... making of the book. Late Sunderlal Pateseria Late Ashit Gupta Pranab Bhattacharya Jayantilal Parekh Mrinal Das Gupta Bishwanath Roy Manik Mitra Dr. Srinivas Iyengar Pulak Banerjee Abani Sinha Hriday Narayan Mrityunjoy Mukherjee Samar Sen Aniruddha Sarkar Cristof Pitoёff Nishit Roy Amalesh Bhattacharya Simanta Narayan Chattopadhya Kanupriya Chatterjee Ajay Virmani ... to the Yugantar Office, where I worked as an accountant, I received no pay but all my expenses were defrayed by the manager. There was mess in the office where I used to feed and live. At this time Abinash Bhattacharjee was the manager. Others used to visit to the office whose names I do not recollect, but if I see them I will be able to recognize them. I used to see at the Yugantar Office, Barindra ...
... action could be taken," recounted Sri. Aurobindo. Do you know how these brilliant and pungent leading articles were written? "When a man from the Office would come for articles," explained Abinash C. Bhattacharya, a revolutionary worker, who was residing with Sri Aurobindo at 48 Grey Street, from where they were arrested at the same time in May the following year, "he would ask him to wait and start... of packing paper served equally well for these editorials written without a scratch; editorials for which the whole of India waited with bated breath to read the next morning. However, Suresh Chandra Deb, a sub-editor of the paper, in his first-hand account says: "It fell to me to come to him every evening about 5 P.M. and receive from him the article promised. I found it ready; I did not have... the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. " The editorial staff comprised Bepin C. Pal , Sri Aurobindo, Shyam Sundar Chakrabarty! and Bejoy Chandra Chatterji , both of them 'masters of the English language,' and Hemendra Prasad Chose. The dissension between Bepin Pal and others arose because of differences of political views "especially with ...
... conception of this scheme was derived from Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra. The booklet, which is mentioned in the Rowlett Committee report (of 1917), is reproduced on the following pages. __________________________ and Pururavus. Sri Aurobindo's translation of Kalidasa's drama was not published until 1911. ¹ Abinash Bhattacharya, "Aurobindo", pp. 832-33. Page 66 BHAWANI... Jatin, Barin and Abinash Bhattacharya were the workers. Jatin used to work among the educated classes – pleaders, doctors, etc. – and Barin and Abinash among college students. Wherever they found an open ground they tried to organise young men there, and to teach them lathi-play, fencing and even riding. Having worked together for six months the three separated. Barin and Abinash shifted to Madan... He met the members only for work. One of those he met was Abinash Bhattacharya, a young man who was among the first to join the nationalist movement in Bengal. Abinash got his chance to see Sri Aurobindo when one day Barin took him to Jatin's house, where Sri Aurobindo was talking with Jatin. Sri Aurobindo spoke with Abinash and welcomed him into the movement. ¹ Sri Aurobindo has written: ...
... boarded the Bombay Mail from Howrah station. Among the leaders were Sri Aurobindo, Shyam Sundar, Suresh Chandra 1. Railways had four classes of bogies: first, second, intermediate, and third. Page 402 Samajpati; among the young men were Barin, Satyen Bose, Abinash Bhattacharya. As a rule, Barin who was a member of the secret society, did not take part in any public affairs. ...
... time Jatin had worked among lawyers, doctors and other professional men, while Barin and Page 63 Abinash Bhattacharya had fished for recruits for revolution among the students. Jatin was thought by some of his comrades to be too much of a military martinet and Barin, Abinash and Hemachandra were all allergic to that kind of mechanical discipline. Sri Aurobindo found it necessary, on... military training, Jatin was sent by Sri Aurobindo to Bengal with a clear-cut programme of revolutionary work. Jatin soon managed to establish contact with Barrister P. Mitter, Bibhuti Bhushan Bhattacharya and Mrs. Sarala Ghoshal, who had already started some revolutionary work (ostensibly on the plea that the groups of young men were learning lathi play) on the inspiration of Baron Okakura. Sri... seems to have told Sri Aurobindo that Bankim's writing was not Bengali! 14 After coming to India, Sri Aurobindo soon learnt enough by his own efforts and was able to appreciate the novels of Bankim Chandra and the poetry of Madhusudan. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo went further still, for in 1898 he engaged a teacher Page 49 — a young Bengali litterateur by name Dinendra Kumar Roy — perhaps ...
... on a wide range of topics: Yoga and its application to life was the central theme of these talks. 1921 Col. Joshua Wedgewood, British M.P. and the famous revolutionary Abinash Bhattacharya also called, The latter stayed on for some months; Sri Aurobindo prophesied to him Bengal's great future. July: Arya stopped publication, giving 1easons. ... 1893-94 Contributed to the Indu prakash of Bombay a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' exposing the hollowness of the then Congress policy; another series on Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Learning Sanskrit by himself; learnt also Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. 1895 First literary publication. Songs to Mirtylla (poems written... with whom Sri Aurobindo had earlier contacts. Dutt's offer of his services in revolutionary work. Affirmation of the Bhavani Mandir ideal. Also met at Dutt's place Raja Subodh chandra Mallik who donated one lakh of ruppes for the National College with the stipulation that Sri Aurobindo be made its first Principal. Sri Aurobindo passed his sojourn in Calcutta. at the Raja's place ...
... also in jail with some of his disciples. One day Abinash Bhattacharya . ¹ Cf. A.B. Purani, Evening Talks, Third Series (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1966), pp. 121-22. .² Cf. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, p. 53. Page 112 requested Sri Aurobindo to explain certain passages from the Upanishad, which he did. Abinash recounted the explanation to Panchanan Babu. After... After hearing it Panchanan said: "Well, Abinash, I would not have been able to explain this portion as simply as Sri Aurobindo has done." Hem Sen was a co-accused. He used to get biscuits and other eatables from outside. He kept these things under his pillow at night. There were thefts of them by the other accused. Those who were awake at the time of the theft would get a share! Hem Sen generally used... used to quarrel during the day about these little thefts at night. One day the theft was being committed and the thief saw that Sri Aurobindo was awake. Abinash took a few biscuits and put them in his hand. He smiled and began to eat them lying down. Upen Banerjee was very much struck by the brilliance of Sri Aurobindo's hair and he thought that it was due to oil. On inquiry he found that there ...
... place. But here too he couldn't make a permanent stay, for that would have proved too embarrassing to the members of Mullick's family. Accordingly, Sri Aurobindo's resourceful factotum, Abinash Bhattacharya, found a separate place, first at Chhaku Khansama Lane, then 23 Scott's Lane, where Mrinalini and Sarojini (and for a time Barin) could also join them. What with the associate editorship... editor, courted arrest, and by refusing to offer defence (why should he, as a revolutionary, take cognizance of an alien court?) secured a year's jail sentence.* And the manager, - that was Abinash Bhattacharya; he had to be acquitted, for nothing could be proved against him. On 30 July, it was the turn if the Office of the Bande Mataram to be searched, and on 16 August the warrant for Sri A... opposition to the partition, and - by one of those unpredictable but amazing quirks of fate - had come to be symbolised by the magic incantation "Bande Mataram!", the opening words of Bankim Chandra's song imbedded in his novel Ananda Math. At one extreme end, it was as though nothing but immediate full-fledged independence could satisfy the people's pent-up hunger for freedom. At the other ...
... Page 232 wrath of the Government. Its manager, Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya, and its printer, Bhupendra Nath Datta, youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda, were arrested. On Sri Aurobindo's advice, Bhupendra Nath refused to defend himself in an alien court, and courted rigorous imprisonment for one year. Abinash Chandra Bhattacharya was acquitted, as no definite evidence could be found against... Kanta Gupta] 7. Sachindra Kumar Sen 8. Poresh Chandra Maullik 9. KunjaLalSaha 10. Bijoy Kumar Nag 11. Narendra Nath Buxi 12. Purna Chandra Sen 13. Hemendra Nath Ghose 14. Bibhuti Bhushan Sarkar 15. Nirapad Rai 16. KanaiLalDutt 17. Hem Chandra Das 18. Arabinda Ghose 19. Abinash Chandra Bhattacharji 20. Sailendra Nath Bose 21. ... Gupta160, Sachindra K. Sen, Kunjo Lal Shah, Bejoy Kumar Nag, Narendra Nath Bukshi, Puma Chandra Sen, Hemendra Nath Ghose, Aravinda Ghose, Dindayal Bose, Birendra Nath Ghose, Dharani Nath Gupta, Nagendra Nath Gupta, Hem Chandra Sen, Debabrata Bose, Nikhileswar Roy Moulik, Bijoy Chandra Bhattacharya and Pravas Chandra Dev were acquitted. "Thus the enquiry before Mr. Birley occupied 76 days and the ...
... colonial self-government), Sri Aurobindo seems at this time to have written a forthright pamphlet entitled No Compromise, which at first no printer was willing to handle. Barindra's friend, Abinash Bhattacharya, secured the necessary type, stick, case and other things and had the matter composed secretly by a Marathi young man, Kulkarni, and printed overnight in an obliging press. The copies were widely... after this series of incendiary political articles had been discontinued, Sri Aurobindo wrote for the Indu Prakash on a more subdued key a set of seven essays (signed "by a Bengali") on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, although the interest was mainly literary, the political slant too revealed itself sharply, for example in a passage like the following: Page 184 Calcutta is yet a stronghold... social reform the workings of the new movement are yet obscure... [but] already we see the embryo of a new generation soon to be with us, whose imagination Bankim has caught and who care not for Keshab Chandra Sen and Kristo Das Pal, a generation national to a fault.... With that generation the future lies and not with the Indian Unnational Congress or the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj. Already its vanguard is upon ...
... 336, 343, 344, 448, 449 Bharati, Shuddhananda, 579 Bharati, Subramania, 16,220,221,235,375, 378,382ff,391,405 Bhartrihari, 50, 68, 69, 88ff Bhasa, 147 Bhattacharya, Abinash, 64, 190, 208, 219, 306,308,309, 538 Bhavani Mandir, 194ff, 209, 282, 298, 304, 346,370; packet of political and spiritual dynamite, 194; filiations with Ananda Math, 194; example... Laurence, 32, 35, 44, 70, 695 Birley, L.,313,314,324 Birth of Sin, The, 169, 169-72 Birth of the War-God, The, 91, 92ff Blunt, Wilfrid, 242 Bose, Bhupal Chandra, 65,222 Bose, Jogendra (Sri Aurobindo's uncle), 28, 35, 49 Bose, Khudiram, 305, 306 Bose, Rajnarain, 25-27, 49, 62, 222 Bose, Sailen, 308, 309 Bose, Satyendra... 427, 440, 536,540 Chatterji, Amarendranath, 285-6 Chatterji, Baidyanath, 317 Chatterji, Bejoy, 222,324 Chatterji, B. C., 217, 239, 272 Chatterji, Bankim Chandra, 15, 16, 19, 27, 49, 50, 58ff, 184,194, 219-20, 228, 235, 280, 281, 321, 514 Chatterji, N.C., 730-1 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath, 511 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 613,616 ...
... Barindra, advising him to clear out with his companions after wiping out all traces of their bomb-making activities. Some of the young men remembered that there were two or three rifles with Abinash Bhattacharya in Sri Aurobindo's house, and these were brought back and buried in the Garden along with the revolvers and bomb-making materials. Some of the group were sent away, and the others tried their... Craegan, Sri Aurobindo was handcuffed and a rope was tied round his midriff, and a constable stood behind holding the rope; but about half an hour later, these wanton indignities were removed. Abinash Bhattacharya and Sailen Bose were also put under arrest, and (as Sri Aurobindo recorded later in Kara-Kahini) Craegan behaved as though "he had entered into the lair of some ferocious animal, as if we... spent by Sri Aurobindo in the lock-up - some of the boys arrested at the Manicktolla Gardens had been brought there too. On being presented on Monday before the Commissioner, Sri Aurobindo, Abinash Bhattacharya and Sailen declined to make a formal statement, having already had some experience of legal procedures and quibblings. Nolini Kanta Gupta told Mr. Halliday that "he was oblivious of the reason ...
... suddenly from the lethargy of the previous years.... Indignation had again created patriotism when apparently it was dead." 5 Again, when Sri Aurobindo was with Jatin Banerjee, Barindra and Abinash Bhattacharya, and the news was conveyed to him that the Partition Act was being passed by the Legislative Council, Sri Aurobindo merely said: "This is a very fine opportunity. Carry on the anti-partition... comparative obscurity to national eminence. He was now recognised as one of the four outstanding leaders of the "extremist" or Nationalist party, the other three being Tilak, Lajpat Rai and Bepin Chandra Pal. The split at the Surat Congress (December 1907) was followed by Sri Aurobindo's first Yogic realisation at Baroda, and his "Midlothian" campaign from Bombay to Calcutta. His articles in the Bande... country. In his Indu Prakash articles of 1893-4, Sri Aurobindo had castigated the education of the day and thrown out hints for reform. Once of the Bengali pioneers of the new education was Satish Chandra Mukherjee (1865-1948). He founded the Bhagavat Chatuspati in 1895, the "Dawn" Magazine in 1897, the Dawn Society in 1902 and the National Council of Education in 1906. The Chatuspati aimed at giving ...
... came in 1920 and Ullaskar Dutt, who had, like Barin, been sentenced to death by the sessions judge at Alipore, but later given life imprisonment and ultimately released, came in 1920 or 1921. Abinash Bhattacharya, Sri Aurobindo's co-worker during the Bande Mataram days, who also had been convicted at Alipore, came and stayed for a month or more. Finally, Amarendranath Chatterji of Uttarpara, who had... dictated. The Bhawanipore centre was closed; Kumudbandhu Bagchi very much annoyed. 29 September. A letter from Bhupal Chandra Bose, Sri Aurobindo's father-in-law, about another son-in-law's illness. A letter from Swarnaprabha. 30 September. A letter from Nolineshwar Bhattacharya of Calcutta. 3 October. Haradhan Baxi and Charurai Dev Sarkar came to Pondicherry bringing a letter from Motilal Roy... Lilavati (Purani's wife), (12) Punamchand, (13) Champa Ben (Punamchand's wife), (14) Rajani Kanta Palit, (15) Dr. Upendra Nath Banerjee, (16) Champaklal, (17) Kanailal Gangulee, (18) Khitish Chandra Dutt, (19) V. Chandra Sekharam, (20) Pujalal, (21) Purushottam Patel, (22) Rati Palit, (23) Rambhai Patel, (24) Nani Bala. ¹ Cf. Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , p. 136. Page 217 ...
... laboratory for making bombs, the man who had led the chorus when the Alipur prisoners were taken in the jail van to the Court. The head was bloodied, but unbowed! Another actor of the early days, Abinash Bhattacharya, who had kept house for Sri Aurobindo and had also been a revolutionary, was in Pondicherry for a while. Yet another associate of the political period, Amarendra of Uttarpara, who used to be... steadfast and tender-hearted of his disciples. And now, early in 1924, an unusual visitor to Pondicherry: Dilip Kumar Roy, son of Dwijendralal Roy the Bengali dramatist. A contemporary of Subhas Chandra Bose in college, like him Dilip too thought of Sri Aurobindo as a legendary figure almost, of whom people talked in whispers of rapturous excitement and enthusiasm. With his rich academic and cultural... and after the severance of connection in 1922, the Sangha developed in its own way, with no doubt some residual Aurobindonian inspiration still, but mainly deriving its impulse from Motilal, Arun Chandra Dutt and others. The whole episode convinced Sri Aurobindo that it was no use "rushing into work" except with tempered and tested instruments and on a sure basis of integral knowledge. 36 ...
... C. Dutt's Puranokatha — Upasanhara (Bengali), quoted in Bulletin, Vol. XIII, 2, April 1961, pp. 158 and 160 fn. 17. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 25 18. From Abinash Bhattacharya's Galpa Bharati, cited in Keshavmurti's Sri Aurobindo — The Hope of Man (1969), pp. 60-61 19. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 16 20. Ibid., p. 17 21. Ibid... 29. Mother India, December 1952, p. 72 30. Ibid., September 1952, p. 6 31. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 17, p. 204. Also in A Scheme of Education, edited by Pranab Bhattacharya (1952), p. 32 32. The Mother, Vol. 12, pp. 37-38 33. The Mother, Vol. 2, pp. 47-48 34. The Mother, Vol. 1, p. 113 35. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 15, p. 231... 'New Lamps for Old' is included in Sri Aurobindo's Political Thought: 1893-1908, edited by Haridas and Uma Mukherjee (1958), pp. 61-123; and the other series is reprinted as Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1954).[In SABCL, see Vols.1 and 17 resp. See also Vol.27, p. 349] 2. The reader is also referred to R. Bangaruswami's essay on 'Sri Aurobindo's ...
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