Bose, Rajnarayan : (1826-99) Sri Aurobindo’s maternal grandfather. To turn the anglicised English educated Bengalis towards their own culture & customs, he issued a Prospectus for the Establishment of a Society for the Promotion of National Feeling among the Educated Natives of Bengal in 1861. Its most significant trait was an intense love of the motherland, based on a conception of its past greatness & future potentialities. Another movement he inspired, the Hindu Mela, was chiefly organised by Nabagopal Mitra. Its object was to encourage the use of indigenous products, the revival of Indian industries & handicrafts, Indian methods of physical culture & the feeling of national self-respect & self-reliance.
... away from orthodoxy by marrying Swarnalata, the daughter of Rajnarayan Bose, in accordance with Brahma Samaj rites. Rajnarayan himself was an outstanding product of the new India that was then rising. A contemporary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and a close friend of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rajnarayan represented in himself the composite culture of his time —... took the mirror, and holding it before his uncle's face, said, 'barn mama, baro bandar! (Look, big uncle, big monkey!)'. Sri Aurobindo always had a happy relationship with his uncle Jogendra Bose, Rajnarayan's eldest son, who was a fine man with a genial temperament. Krishna Dhan cherished great hopes about the future of his sons, particularly of Auro, and to give shape to these hopes he made a... Exhibition of swadeshi products, called the Hindu Mela, which roused great enthusiasm. Moreover, because of his piety and consecrated life, he was known as Rishi Rajnarayan. Swarnalata, Sri Aurobindo's mother, was also unusually gifted. Rajnarayan had seen to it that she was well educated. She used to write poems, was endowed with the social graces and was very beautiful — her husband's Indian and English ...
... Family Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose took his degree at the Medical College, Calcutta. His marriage took place in 1864, when he was nineteen years old, to Swarnalata, the eldest daughter of Sj. Rajnarayan Bose. Swarnalata's age was twelve. The marriage was performed according to the rites of Adi Brahmo Samaj, towards which Dr. Ghose had leanings. In 1869 Dr. Ghose went to Britain for further medical... "Everyone makes the forefathers of a great man very religious-minded, pious, etc. It is not true in my case at any rate. My father was a tremendous atheist." ¹ There was a vein of lunacy in Rajnarayan's family; one of his sons was mad. Swarnalata and her sister, who was married to Krishna Kumar Mitra, both suffered from hysteria. When Dr. Ghose returned from Britain he joined the civil medical ...
... his in-laws (beaux-parents).] Sri Aurobindo always stayed at Deoghar with the family of his maternal grandfather Raj Narayan Bose. The beaux-parents did not live at Deoghar. [Sri Aurobindo owed his views on Indian Nationalism to the influence of Rajnarayan Bose. His turn towards philosophy may be attributed to the same influence.] I don't think my grandfather was much of a philosopher;... with his grandfather were for political purposes.] This is not correct. In these visits he was not concerned with politics. It was some years afterwards that he made a journey along with Devabrata Bose, Barin's co-adjutor in the Yugantar, partly to visit some of the revolutionary centres already formed, but also to meet leading men in the districts and find out the general attitude of the country ...
... the Calcutta Medical College. When he was nineteen years old and still studying in the Medical College, he married Srimati Swarnalata Devi, the eldest daughter of Page 2 Rishi Rajnarayan Bose who, to quote the Karmayogin, ¹ "represented the high water-mark of the composite culture of the country - Vedantic, Islamic and European." He was a saintly man of high attainments, synthesising... Dhan proceeded to England for an advanced course of medical studies. He was one of the first Indians to go to England from Bengal, defying the ban of his orthodox society. His father-in-law, Rajnarayan Bose, strongly advised him to steer clear of the baneful influences of the sceptical and materialistic civilisation of the West. Krishna Dhan took his M.D. from the Aberdeen University and returned... 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, then a very young man, became a member, and also set up an institution for national and revolutionary propaganda, but this finally came to nothing ...
... (to Nirodbaran) : Do you go to sleep? DR. MANILAL: Can one go to sleep in despair? SRI AUROBINDO: As an escape, yes. There are some people who go to sleep standing. There was, for example, Rajnarayan Bose who would sleep standing, like a horse. NIRODBARAN: Did he use to practise meditation? SRI AUROBINDO: Meditation of some sort. (Turning to Nirodbaran) But you had a look of deep concentration ...
... PURANI: No! SRI AUROBINDO: In this book only earlier poems were included. He says three poems in Myrtilla are about a part of my life I wanted people to know about. He objects to the poem on Rajnarayan Bose being excluded from the new edition. The fact is I had no copy of it. Besides, these are the usual sorts of things critics say about a poet after his death. I am still alive. I should be immune ...
... met his maternal grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose, and other relatives, and stopped with them for a few days. This high-souled patriarch, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose, a pioneer nationalist and religious and social reformer of Bengal, was then passing his old age in the peaceful retreat of Deoghar. Sri Aurobindo must have felt a great affinity with him. "Rajnarayan Bose", as Bepin Chandra Pal says, -... work done by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, was inspired and initiated by Sri Aurobindo's maternal grandfather, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose. Nowhere else in India had any such definite step been taken before it for the resuscitation of the national spirit. 97 "The first clarion call was sounded by Rajnarayan Bose in 1861 when he issued a prospectus for the establishment of a Society for the Promotion of National Feeling... belonged to Sri Aurobindo have been sent to Sri Aurobindo Ashram from Baroda. They include the Complete Works of Ishwar Gupta, Sekal O Ekal by Rajnarayan Bose, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Chandidas, Jnanadas, the Dramatical Works of Amritalal Bose, the Poetical Works of Govindadas, a collection of poems by Dinabandhu Mitra, Bengali Sonnets by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Ananda Math by Bankim Chandra ...
... to Deoghar. She was then a girl learning at school and used to go to Deoghar to visit the family of her grandfather Rajnarayan Bose. There were hills around and everybody enjoyed a life free from the conventions of the city. All the children were fond of uncle Jogendra, Rajnarayan's eldest son, and would sit round him and listen to stories or else make fun. Sri Aurobindo liked Jogendra whom he used... these books? But because he liked this reading did not mean that he did not join us in our talks and chats and our merrymaking. His talk used to be full of wit and humour." ¹ In September 1899 Rajnarayan Bose, Sri Aurobindo's grandfather, died. Sri Aurobindo wrote a sonnet on him after his death. In 1899 or possibly 1898 Jatindranath Banerjee (afterwards Niralamb Swamy) came to Baroda for military... freedom of Mother India at any cost and to declare the secret of the society to no one. The idea of forming secret revolutionary societies had been in the air in Bengal for a long time. Even Rajnarayan Bose, Sri Aurobindo's grandfather, had started a society which Tagore had joined when young! But these efforts did not result in any achievement. There was a secret society in Maharashtra presided ...
... very little information to go on and there are many gaps which cannot now be filled. About eleven months after his arrival at Baroda, in a letter dated January 11, 1894, to his grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose, Sri Aurobindo writes: My dear Grandfather, I received your telegram and postcard together this afternoon. I am at present in an exceedingly out of the way place, without any post-office... would be returning shortly to India to distinguish himself as an outstanding Professor of English in Government Service. Amongst his family members his maternal uncle, Jogendra, the eldest son of Rajnarayan Bose, was perhaps the closest to Sri Aurobindo. He was a cheerful and kindly man and Sri Aurobindo always enjoyed his company, calling him the 'Prophet of Ishabgul' for he used to prescribe this indigenous ...
... Ghose, a barrister and a public man of the time. Father, Dr. K.D. Ghose, I.M.S., belonged to the well-known Ghoses of Konnagar, Dist. Hooghly, Bengal. Mother, Srimati Swarnalata, daughter of Rishi Rajnarayan Basu, 'the grandfather of Indian Nationalism.* Sri Aurobindo had three brothers and one sister, Eldest Benoybhusan and second Monmohan had education in England along with Sri... organisation. 1898-99 Learning spoken Bengali with Dinendra Kumar Roy, the well-known Bengali litterateur. 1899 Passing away of his maternal grandfather Rajnarayan Basu in 1mhose memory Sri Aurobindo wrote a poern. 1901 April: Married Srimati Mrinalini, daughter of Sri Bhupalchandra Basu, in Calcutta, according to strict Hindu rites. ... purpose of realising one of his most cherished ideals.' Among the signatories to the appeal for funds for the university centre were: S. Radhakrishnan, K. M. Munshi, R. R. Diwakar, Tan Yun-Shan, Nandalal Bose, Hare- krishna Mahtab. Vice-chancellers of the Universities of Agra, Allahabad, Bombay, Gujrat etc. Publication of Parts Two and Three of Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri. Most of Part Three were dictated ...
... was serving. Occasionally the family used to go to Deoghar to stay with Swarnalata's father, Rajnarayan Bose. Aurobindo did not know Bengali for these first five years. There were a butler and a nurse in the house, and he used to talk with them in broken English and similar Hindusthani. Sj. Rajnarayan Bose was a patriot and a great exponent of Indian culture, but his views had no effect upon his son-in-law... Manmohan replied, "I can't, I am sleeping"! Another incident happened at Deoghar, where Aurobindo had gone during a vacation. One night all the children were walking with their grandfather, Rajnarayan Bose. After some time they found that he was not with them. They walked back and saw that he was sleeping in a standing position! In a talk of 1939 Sri Aurobindo said: "Your question reminds me of... or spoke of him it was with great admiration and pride. And Dr. Ghose knew very well that Aurobindo was making excellent progress by his own efforts. In a letter (dated 2 December 1891) to Jogendra Bose, his brother-in-law, he writes about his sons: "The three sons I have produced, I have made giants of them. I may not, but you will live to be proud of three nephews who will adorn your country and ...
... speeches of the chairmen of the reception committees? 16. Another instance of Girija's wrong inference is his conclusion based on the meeting of Vivekananda and Rajnarayan Bose on 3 January 1898. He infers from this fact that Rajnarayan must have talked about it to Sri Aurobindo. This is wrong. They had no talk about Vivekananda at all. Sri Aurobindo never read Ram Mohan's Vedanta and according... Vivekananda preached according to him is the universality of the Brahman. With this idea of Vivekananda Sri Aurobindo is in full agreement. As for Sitanath Tatvabhushan, Devendra Nath Tagore and Rajnarayan Bose, Sri Aurobindo never thought that they had any Vedanta worth noticing. 17. Girija says that Sri Aurobindo must have participated in Dadabhai Naoroji's election to the British Parliament. He... Houses Sri Aurobindo Lived in and Offices He Was Connected with in Calcutta 1. Subodh Mullick's house, 12, Wellington Street. 2. Bhupal Chandra Bose's house in Serpentine Lane. 3. 23, Scott's Lane. 4. 48, Grey Street (1st floor). 5. Alipore jail. 6. 6, College Square (Krishna K-umar Mitra's house and office of the ...
... the beginning of December, 1906. He stayed with his father-in-law, Bhupal Chandra Bose, at Serpentine Lane, during his illness. He recovered partially at the end of November, but had a relapse in December. In about the middle of December (11th December) he went to Deoghar, where his maternal grand-father, Rajnarayan Bose, was living, for a change of air, but could not stay there long. He had to hurry... the laudable fruit of Lord Curzon's malicious policy. Swadeshi, which had really had its birth in the days, and principally by the initiative, of Sri Aurobindo's maternal grand-father, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose, received an unprecedented fillip by the anti-Partition agitation, and became an abiding feature of the all-round national regeneration. The second casualty in the anti-Partition campaign... India, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy, Bepin Chandra Pal, Brahmabandhava Upadhyaya, Ramananda Chatterji, R.C. Dutt, Okakura, the Japanese art connoisseur, Gokhale, Tilak etc., she exerted a great influence in various fields of the resurgent life of the nation. Jagadish Chandra Bose and P.C. Roy gave her a run of their laboratories, where, in the evening ...
... to Deoghar, to my grandfather's." "Did you have to speak English even there?" "Oh no! Grandfather was very patriotic and proud to be an Indian. Not at all like Father. He was called Rishi Rajnarayan Bose and, indeed, he did look like a Rishi, a sage, with his flowing white hair and beard and his eversmiling face. And he was so learned and wise. He told us stories from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata... and it was on his extensive property that the young men perfected their rifle-shooting skills. The idea of establishing these secret societies was not new in Bengal. Even my maternal grandfather Rajnarayan Bose had founded a society of which Rabindranath Tagore too had been a member for some time. But though they had great dreams and aspirations, they lacked the strength to realise them. For that, young... grandfather of whom I have already spoken to you. He was very gentle and kind, and handsome too, with his silvery hair and beard framing his serene face lit by an inner glow. To everyone he was Rishi Rajnarayan. He used to tell me so many things about philosophy and religion, about my country and its past, its poets and its saints. A great scholar and sage, he was also a true patriot. Perhaps my brothers ...
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