Cambridge : municipal borough, county seat of Cambridgeshire in England, on the Cam (or Granta) River. The term is also used for the University of Cambridge which, with Oxford University, began in the 12th century. By the 13th century, a system of residential colleges sprang up which, in both Universities, are presided over by a principal, & its colleges are named for the church to which they are attached or for the saint to which they were dedicated. In 1890, Cambridge had 18 colleges for men, & two for women of which Girton opened in 1869 & Newham in 1873 but neither admitted “women students…to a full degree until 1947”
... four distinct periods: Manchester, from 1879 to September 1884. London, from September 1884 to October 1890. Cambridge, from October 1890 to October 1892. London, from October 1892 to January 1893. During vacations Aurobindo used to go outside London and Cambridge whenever economic conditions permitted. Dr. K.D. Ghose was very friendly with Mr. Glazier, a magistrate at Rangpur,... took the test but did not pass. Towards the end of his career at St. Paul's Aurobindo won an open scholarship for classics to King's College, Cambridge. This scholarship carried £80 a year, a sum which was not sufficient to cover the expenses at Cambridge, but which was a great help to Aurobindo. He also received an allowance as an I. C .S. probationer. Even so, he was always hard pressed because... interested him. Study and success in examinations were necessities. Most of the poems written at Cambridge by Aurobindo were published at Baroda in 1895 in his book Songs to Myrtilla. It was Norman Ferrers, who later practised as a barrister in the Straits Settlement, who gave to Aurobindo, while at Cambridge, the clue to the discovery of the true quantitative hexameter in English. He was reading out ...
... loved games and sports - something for which both Oxford and Cambridge are famed at present." "Yes, we have seen them hawking and hunting, in films. It was very impressive." "I was once a student at Cambridge. Of course, that was a long time ago, a time when learning and degrees were more important than now. Perhaps today's Cambridge is quite different." "Did you find many other Indians there... road to Cambridge was paved. And time it was too for our household to break up - the three of us who had lived so long together, quarrelling, sharing all our good and bad fortunes, had now to strike out separately, each to follow his star. I was the first to leave. My brothers came to the station to see me off as I boarded the train to Cambridge. I had heard so much about both Oxford and Cambridge. It... lines that fate had drawn for him. I would go to Cambridge, Manomohan to Oxford, and our eldest brother Benoy would probably settle for a solitary existence in London itself. Anyway the examinations were fast approaching. Actually I had three of them to prepare for: the School final exam, the I.C.S. test and one for winning a scholarship to enter Cambridge. Only by this scholarship could I be of some help ...
... 196. 2.E. R. Bevan, "India in Early Greek and Latin Literature", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 415. 3.Athenaeus XIV, 67 for the former and Strabo III, i, 9 for the latter. Actually. Strabo has "Allitrochades", but that is obviously a mistaken transcription. 4.E. J. Rapson, Ancient India (Cambridge, 1916), pp. 102, 103. 104. 5.H. C. Raychaudhuri, The Political History... here. In correction he cites The Cambridge History of India (I, p. 336) on Scylax's expedition: " .. .it seems much more likely that Darius must previously have won by force of arms a firm hold over the territory traversed from the headwaters of the Indus to the ocean, in order to have been able to carry out such an expedition." Mankad agrees with the Cambridge History that Darius was already... The Heritage of Persia, p. 105. 2.A. V. Williams Jackson, 'M he Persian Dominions in Northern India down to the Time of Alexander's Invasion", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 330. 3. Op. cit., p. 106. 4. The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 331. Page 465 did not think the Ionians important enough to constitute a primary objective, for his mind was on ...
... be out of place, if in dwelling on this I revert to the great Universities of Oxford and Cambridge which are our famous exemplars, and point out a few differences between those Universities and our own and the thoughts those differences may well suggest. I think there is no student of Oxford or Cambridge who does not look back in after days on the few years of his under-graduate life as, of... rejected on account of the Riding Examination. It may be well to enquire of Mr William Chawner, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, (who in June last succeeded Sir Roland Wilson as Secretary to the Board of Indian Civil Service Studies at Cambridge) how Mr Ghose conducted himself at the University previous to his Final Examination. This suggestion is made because Mr Ghose has... Kimberley's "obiter dictum" (see XX) which might have been influenced by reports from the Cambridge Majlis in which a future civil servant was represented as ventilating revolutionary views about Indian freedom, seems quite evident. Sri Aurobindo's advocacy of Indian political freedom in the Majlis at Cambridge was not the unripe eloquence of a raw undergraduate. It was something that came from a ...
... Aurobindo for All Ages III: Cambridge: The Call of the Motherland (1890-1893) AS a Senior Classical scholar, Sri Aurobindo studied for the Classical Tripos, the B.A. degree examination in Greek and Latin. He was given rooms in the college and, except for vacations, he stayed at Cambridge for the next two years. In addition to his work for the Classical... ' When he said this for the third time, someone from the audience exclaimed: 'But how many times did they sit down?' Sri Aurobindo has another delightful story about his Cambridge days. He recounts, 'A Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive profundity of his affirmation: "Liars! But we are all liars!" It appeared that he had intended to say "Lawyers"... lightly his classical studies, for after all his career was now assured, but it was not in his nature to do anything superficially. In fact his reputation as a Classical scholar had preceded him at Cambridge and one of the senior tutors, G.W. Prothero, invited him to meet Oscar Browning, a very well-known scholar and intellectual in the university at that time. There is a very interesting letter from ...
... 1891–1898 All but one of the pieces in this section and the next are taken from a notebook Sri Aurobindo used at Cambridge between 1890 and 1892. To a Hero-Worshipper . September 1891. From the Cambridge note-book. Phaethon . Circa 1891–92. From the Cambridge notebook. The Just Man . Circa 1891–98. This poem forms part of the manu-script of Songs to Myrtilla but... stanzas are from the Cambridge notebook. Published here for the first time. Like a white statue . No title in the manuscript. Circa 1891–92. This incomplete prose poem is from the Cambridge notebook. In the manu-script, there is a comma at the end of the last line. The Vigil of Thaliard . 1891–92. Sri Aurobindo wrote this incomplete ballad in the Cambridge notebook. He dated... 1884, when he went to London to study at St. Paul's School. From there he went to Cambridge in 1890. Three years later he returned to India, and until 1906 lived and worked in the princely state of Baroda. He began writing poetry in Manchester, and continued Page 691 in London, Cambridge and Baroda. His first collection, published in Baroda in 1898, contained poems written ...
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... 25 King's College Sri Aurobindo was at Cambridge, "borne there by his own ability." Cambridge, "the nursery of blooming youth," as a poet saw it. Following is the letter Sri Aurobindo wrote to his father when he went up to Cambridge in October 1890. "Last night I was invited to coffee with one of the dons and in his rooms I met the... —at least it was so in the last century. Thus it was in December 1889 that A. A. Ghose took the Examination for Scholarships, Exhibitions and Admissions to King's College, Cambridge. The Scholarship examination was taken at Cambridge under the supervision of the college authorities. There were several papers, such as translation from English verse and prose into Latin and Greek, and vice versa. Needless... College, Cambridge, which was started in 1441 by King Henry VI. However, it was only in the next academic year that a vacancy arose and A. A. Ghose could join college: "Ghose Aravinda Acroyd, admitted scholar at King's College, October 11, 1890 . . . Matric Michaelmas 1890 . . ." The feast of St. Michael, one of the archangels, is known as Michaelmas and falls on 29 September. Oxford, Cambridge and ...
... Aurobindo's contemporaries at Cambridge. One of them refers to Sri Aurobindo as "a brilliant young classical scholar... of marked literary and poetic taste, and as far as I ever saw a young man of high character and modest bearing, who was liked by all who knew him". The other letter refers to Sri Aurobindo's complete lack of interest in sports while at Cambridge and to his general attitude towards... modem Europe. The period of about two years between old Mrs. Drewett's going away and Sri Aurobindo's winning a classical scholarship of the value of £80 per year tenable at King's College, Cambridge, was a time of "the greatest suffering and poverty", 21 and for a whole year at least, he had to subsist on a slice or two of sandwich, bread arid butter and a cup of tea in the morning, and only... he Page 32 passed the examination in July 1890, securing the eleventh place, and scoring record marks in Greek and Latin. Added to the Senior Scholarship tenable at King's College Cambridge, the I.C.S. stipend for the probationary period placed Sri Aurobindo in a much better position financially than during the two immediately preceding years of privation and poverty. After his success ...
... Chattopadhyaya, D.P, Induction, Probability and Scepticism, Sri Satguru Publications, 1992, Delhi, p. 31 Vide., Bell, J., Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, Cambridge University Press, 1987, Cambridge. Vide Penrose, Roger, Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness, p. 214. Vide., Bohm, David, Wholeness And The Implicate Order... Oxford University Press, 2000; Galloway, George, CharlesScribner's Sons, New York, 1920, Chs. 2-5; Cottingham, John, The Spiritual Dimension, Cambridge University press, 2005; Bagger, Mathew C., Religious Experience: Justification and History, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999. Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Pondicherry, Vol. 19, pp.874 7. ... Double day Anchor, 1967. 15 Vide, Manser, A., Stock, G. (Eds.), The Philosophy ofF. H. Bradley, Clarendon Press, 1984. 16 Vide., Moser, P., Knowledge and Evidence, Cambridge University Press, 1989, Cambridge. 17 Vide., Radhakrishnan, S, Indian Philosophy (Vols. I-II), Oxford University Press, 1999; Mohanty, J.N, Reason and Tradition in Indian Thought: An essay on the nature of ...
... unruffled calm. Subsequently Sri Aurobindo also "went separately into lodgings until he took up residence at Cambridge". Sri Aurobindo secured a senior classical scholarship of £.80 per annum when he joined the King's College, Cam- bridge. This lessened his hardship to a certain extent. At Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo attracted the attention of Oscar Browning, a well-known figure there. In regard to ... one year for Greek and Latin verse, etc." Sri Aurobindo did not graduate at Cambridge. "He passed high in the First Part of the Tripos (first class); it is on passing this First Part that the degree of B.A. is usually given; but as he had only two years at his disposal, he had to pass it in his second year at Cambridge; and the First Part gives the degree only if it is taken in the third year;... liberation of his own country. But the 'firm decision' took full shape only towards the end of another four years. It had already been made when he went to Cambridge, and as a member and for some time secretary of the Indian Majlis at Cambridge he delivered many revolutionary speeches." Dr. Ghosh wished that Sri Aurobindo should go in for the Indian Civil Service. In deference to his father's ...
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... parts. Two appendixes, consisting mostly of material not written for publication, come at the end. PART ONE: THE HARMONY OF VIRTUE (CAMBRIDGE 1890-1892) Sri Aurobindo wrote all these pieces while an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, between 1890 and 1892. He did not publish any of them during his lifetime. The Sole Motive of Man's Existence. 1891. Editorial title... Reference Volume. The Harmony of Virtue. Dated "May 1892" towards the middle of the manuscript. The entire piece was probably written during 1892, Sri Aurobindo's second and last year at Cambridge. He was referring to The Harmony of Virtue when he wrote late in his life: "It is true that under his [Plato's] impress I rashly started writing at the age of 18 [ more likely 19 ] an explanation... Harmony, but I never got beyond the first three or four chapters." The name of the principal character, "Keshav Ganesh Desai", recalls that of Keshav Ganesh Deshpande, one of Sri Aurobindo's friends at Cambridge and subsequently in India. Sri Page 765 Aurobindo left alternatives to several passages in Book One. These are reproduced in the Reference Volume. Beauty in the ...
... during the years Sri Aurobindo attended (1890 - 92). During the same period G. W. Prothero held the post of Praelector ( Cambridge University Calendar , 1890, 1891, 1892 - 93; personal communications from the Provost and the Librarian, King's College, Cambridge, 1975 - 77). Prothero took some interest in Sri Aurobindo, writing at least one letter on his behalf (Purani, pp. 327 - 28)... Information Supplied to the King's College Register . [1] 16 September 1903. While in Srinagar, Sri Aurobindo received a form from the editors of the Register of Admissions of his Cambridge college, asking him for information about his university and subsequent career. He filled out the form on 16 September and returned it. The text is reproduced here from the original form, which is... the King's College Library. [2] 31 August 1928. A short biographical entry based on the information Sri Aurobindo submitted in 1903 was published in A Register of Admissions to King's College Cambridge 1850 - 1900 , compiled by John J. Withers (London, 1903). In 1928 the editors of the second edition of this work sent a copy of the 1903 entry to Sri Aurobindo, asking him to correct and update it ...
... of the previous year Aravinda had taken the Scholarship Examination for King’s College at Cambridge University. As a result of his performance in this examination, he was elected to the first vacant open scholarship, which means that he was the best candidate. Oscar Browning, one of the examiners and a Cambridge celebrity, would take Aravinda aside and tell him: ‘I suppose you know you passed an ext... Greece and Rome – these were considered the proper training of an English gentleman. And what one learned in the classroom and lecture hall was only part, and not the most important part, of the Cambridge experience. The university’s atmosphere took hold of those who entered it and wrought a comprehensive change.’ 15 A.A. Ghose was ‘one of the two best Classics of his year in King’s College... pounds’ for having distinguished himself in the college examination in Classics. He would never get his B.A., as the Classical Tripos comprised three years and he had to stop after two. But he left Cambridge in October 1892 as a gentleman and a classical scholar who would keep the knowledge acquired there for the rest of his life, both as a generally recognized master of the English language and as one ...
... Italian, for instance. In Bengali, however, I had a teacher." That was several years later, in Baroda. The course of study provided at Cambridge was a very poor one. Poorer still was their teacher! "Of course," said Sri Aurobindo, "we started learning it in Cambridge, the judge Beachcroft was Page 210 one of us, under an Anglo-Indian pundit ('Pundit Towers,' the students called him)... occasionally come Page 206 across him. He was a very able Classical Scholar, easily first in this subject in the entrance Scholarship Examination. . . . With regard to his life at Cambridge a complete lack of interest in games must have lessened his enjoyment of the place." There speaks the Englishman, although Sri Aurobindo may not have agreed with that opinion. "His interests were... to be quick and songful and gracile is the pride of the Celt and the bird." 1 Though A. A. Ghose evinced no interest in taking part in games, he did take part in debates and discussions. "At Cambridge," reminisced Sri Aurobindo, "we were once discussing about physical development. Then one fellow, in order to show how splendid his health was, began to take his garments off. He took off his coat ...
... questions were put to Benoy-bhusan 1 concerning Sri Aurobindo's life at Cambridge. 1. Sri Aurobindo (in Bengali) by Girijashankar Roy chowdhuri, Page 215 His answers: i)"Indians had a Debating Society at Cambridge called 'Cambridge Mejlis.' He took an active part in that. He met C. R. Das at Cambridge. ii)"In the Mejlis he made a number of strong speeches, specially... liberation of his own country. But the 'firm decision' took full shape only towards the end of another four years. It had already been made when he went to Cambridge and as a member and for some time secretary of the Indian Majlis at Cambridge he delivered many revolutionary speeches which, as he afterwards learnt, had their part in determining the authorities to exclude him for the Indian Civil Service;... a result of his protest. A. A. Ghose followed closely all public questions and Page 216 began to keep a finger on the pulse of politics. It was in 1891, during his stay at Cambridge that the 'Indian Majlis' was started. It was an association of Indian students. The Majlis played an important part in the social life of Indian students in England and very often moulded their political ...
... English gentleman. And what one learned in the classroom and lecture hall was only part, and not the most important part, of the Cambridge experience. The university’s atmosphere took hold of those who entered it and wrought a comprehensive change.” 950 A.A. Ghose left Cambridge as a classical scholar and a gentleman; he would keep the knowledge acquired there for the rest of his life, both as a generally... slice or two of sandwich bread and butter and a cup of tea in the morning and in the evening a penny saveloy”, some sort of sausage. Aravinda took the scholarship examination for King’s College at Cambridge University; he was elected to the first vacant open scholarship, which means that he was the best candidate. Known as A.A. Ghose, Aravinda studied at King’s College from October 1890 to October 1892... thereby eliminated as an ICS probationer. As luck would have it, the Maharajah of Baroda, on one of his many visits to Europe, happened to be in London. He was delighted that he could hire a trained Cambridge and ICS man, higher qualified than most, for less than a reasonable salary. Aravinda sailed for India in February 1903. He set foot ashore in his motherland on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay and entered ...
... New York, 1994; vide also, Schrodinger, Erwin, My View of the World, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1967. 7 Vide., Ereshevsky, M.(ed.), The Units of Evolution: On the Nature of Species, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992; vide also, Mayr, E., Towards a New Philosophy of Biology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1988. 8 Vide., Hull, D.L., Philosophy of Biological Science, Englewood... Cliffs, Prentice Hall, N J, 1974. 9 Vide., American Public Media, Interview of Ms. Tippett with Dr. Newland, 2007. 10 Vide., Moore, F.C.T, Bergson: Thinking Backwards, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996. " Vide., Peel, J.D.Y, Herbert Spencer, The Evolution of a Sociologist, Heinemann, London, 1971. 12 Vide., Alexander, S., Space, Time and Deity, Macmillan, London ...
... Branch, 1958). Smith, G.C. Moore. (Ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. VIII (The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1922). Spurgeon, Caroline E. Mysticism in English Literature (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1927). Stace, WT. Time and Eternity : An Essay in the Philosophy of Religion (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1952). Stambler, Bernard. Dante's... (Oxford University Press, London, 1951). People, Places and Books (Oxford University Press, London, 1953). Page 487 Housman, A.E. The Name and Nature of Poetry (Cambridge University Press, London, 1933). Hudson, Derek (Ed.) English Critical Essays, XX Century, Second Series (Oxford University Press, London, 1958). Inge, W.R. Christian... The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel, translated into English verse, with Introduction, Synopsis and Notes by Kimon Friar (Seeker & Warburg, London, 1958). Kellett, E.E. Reconsiderations (Cambridge University Press, London, 1928). Kenner, Hugh. The Poetry of Ezra Pound (New Directions, New York, 1951). Ker, W.P. (ed.) Essays and Studies, Vol. III (The Clarendon Press ...
... element. Raymond and Bridget Allchin 121 have written 119.P. 242, fn. 361. 120.John Murray & Co., London, 1912, II, p. 201. 121. The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 203. Page 253 impressively on the distinctive fireplaces at the site of Kalibangan: Such "ritual hearths" are reported from the beginning... dissociates the Rigvedic tradition from non-Indian cultural traits and from origination in a foreign milieu. 51.P. 239. 52.Sir Mortimer Wheeler, The Indus Civilization, Third Edition (Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 82. 53.P. 240. Page 230 As Parpola has Jarrige's name in his footnotes, it would seem that the latter, who established immigration in the Bolan... nature of a part of the Mitanni treaty's invocation of gods as witnesses, we drew attention to a point overlooked by Parpola but already marked in 1922 by P. Giles in his article "The Aryans", in the Cambridge History of India: 181 "The Mitanni had adopted the worship of certain deities who at the time of the composition of the Vedic hymns were still the most important, though to them had been added Agni ...
... 1879 to 1893. The first five years were spent at Manchester, the next six in London and the last three mostly at Cambridge. During his entire stay, he was virtually cut off from his motherland, the only contact being through occasional letters, newspapers and a few acquaintances at Cambridge. As he was to write himself, he grew up 'in entire ignorance of India, her people, her religion and culture'. But... College, Cambridge. For this examination, which was open to all eligible students in England, Sri Aurobindo took the papers in the Classical languages i.e. Greek and Latin. He was adjudged the best candidate and won the Senior Classical scholarship which was worth £80 a year. With his own efforts and exceptional abilities, Sri Aurobindo had gained for himself the opportunity of going to Cambridge for further... Aurobindo was now entitled to a stipend of £150 a year. The period of probation was for two years which he could spend at Cambridge whilst pursuing his other studies. In July 1890 Sri Aurobindo left St. Paul's and in October of the same year he joined King's College, Cambridge. He had completed his eighteenth year, two months earlier. ...
... 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 student who is privileged to be in residence for three years? Sri Aurobindo warms up to the answer and finds the right words: He goes up... and helped him in later years, whenever possible, in his political work. Among his other friends were Khasirao Jadhav and Keshavrao G. Deshpande, the latter of whom Sri Aurobindo had known at Cambridge. In the early years at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo often stayed either with Khasirao or his brother Madhavrao, but later he used to rent a house or lived in quarters provided by the Government. Books... "Dada is in Cooch-Behar State service and so he was to maintain a certain high standard of living. Manomohan is married and marriage is an expensive luxury!" 13 Already, while still at Cambridge, he had tried to learn a little Bengali, since as an I.C.S. probationer he had opted for service in Bengal. His teacher in Bengali, Mr. Robert Mason Towers ("Pandit Towers", as he came to be ...
... pressed by K .G. Deshpande, his Cambridge friend, to write the series. K.G. Deshpande, after his return from England, settled in Bombay as a barrister and was also editor of the English section of the Induprakash. The paper had a Marathi section also. On Sri Aurobindo's joining the Baroda state, Deshpande requested him – knowing his strong nationalist views at Cambridge – to write articles about the... Kumar Roy as his paid tutor in order to familiarise himself with spoken Bengali. Roy came to Baroda after the Puja holidays. As already stated, Sri Aurobindo had commenced learning Bengali while at Cambridge, and he read many authors during his stay at Baroda. He wanted to make himself familiar with the growth of Bengali literature, to understand the idiom of the spoken language and to learn to speak... Bengali language was not equal to his mastery over the English. When Professor Littledale went on leave in 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 ...
... royalty. Whether St. Paul's School appreciated his sense of humor we do not know, but it certainly appreciated his astonishing culture; Page 9 he was awarded a scholarship to attend Cambridge (just in time; the family remittances had practically stopped), which was not enough, however, to relieve him from cold and hunger since his older brothers also partook heartily of the windfall. He... "something else" we desperately need, we who are neither narrow-minded materialists nor exclusive spiritualists. Thus, he became secretary of the "Indian Majlis," an association of Indian students at Cambridge, delivered revolutionary speeches, cast off his English first name, and joined a secret society called "Lotus and Dagger" (!) (Though, in this case, romanticism could lead one straight to the gallows... but neglected to appear for the horsemanship test, going for a walk that day instead Page 10 of trotting at Woolwich, and was consequently disqualified. This time the Senior Tutor of Cambridge was moved to write to the authorities: "That a man of this calibre should be lost to the Indian government merely because he failed to sit on a horse or did not keep an appointment appears to me, ...
... not be out of place, if in dwelling on this I revert to the great Universities of Oxford and Cambridge which are our famous exemplars, and point out a few differences between those Universities and our own and the thoughts those differences may well suggest. 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, of all... life and work, and if you meet fellow-students, alumni of the same College, to meet them as friends, as brothers. There is another point in which a wide difference exists. What makes Oxford and Cambridge not local institutions but great and historic Universities? It is the number of great and famous men, of brilliant intellects in every department which have issued from them. I should like you to... That success reflects fame not only on India but on his University and College, and when the name of the first Indian Senior Wrangler is mentioned, it will also be remembered that he belonged to Cambridge and to St. John's. But examinations, however important, are only a preliminary. I lay stress upon this because there is too much of a tendency in this country to regard education as a mere episode ...
... Autobiographical Notes At Cambridge It is said that the Provost of King's College, Mr. Austen Leigh, quickly recognized Aurobindo's unusual talent and rich integrity. [ Altered to: ] Aurobindo's unusual talents early attracted the admiration of Oscar Browning, then a well-known figure at Cambridge. Austen Leigh was not the name of the Provost; his name... literature and writing poetry. [ Another version: ] He did not graduate at Cambridge. He passed high in the First Part of the Tripos (first class); it is on passing this First Part that the degree of B.A. is usually given; but as he had only two years at his disposal, he had to pass it in his second year at Cambridge, and the First Part gives the degree only if it is taken in the third year. If ...
... Ilion technically fulfils an inspiration Sri Aurobindo had during his Cambridge days. He has referred to it in one of his talks. While the Alipore Bomb Case was going on in 1908, H. N. Ferrers, a barrister, passed through Calcutta on way to Singapore. About him Sri Aurobindo says: "He had been my class-mate at Cambridge. He saw me in the Court, sitting inside a cage with the other accused and was... attributed to her. Again, in the poem Night by the Sea, neither the poetic quality nor the passion-poignancy can be increased by our knowing whether the Edith addressed in it existed in the actual Cambridge of Sri Aurobindo's day or, if she did, who precisely she was. Of course, biographical or historical interest, whenever it can be added, is not to be disdained, but the more important task is to make... was much concerned. We were put there lest we should jump upon the Judge and murder him ! Ferrers did not know how to get me out; so he had to leave without meeting me. It was he who at Cambridge had given me the clue to the genuine English hexameter. He read out a line from Clough which he thought the best in tone and this gave me the swing of the Homeric metre as it should be in English." ...
... passage of Tennyson's in the middle of the Enid-story: 1 We may note, in passing, that C.R.M. is wrongly informed about Stephen Phillips having been at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. Phillips was in touch with the group at Cambridge and was a personal friend of Sri Aurobindo's elder brother, Manomohan Ghose, who knew also Oscar Wilde and had Laurence Binyon as a classmate. Page 407 ... "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is stronger: * First published in Mother India, September 3, 1949, except for the change of a few quotations in order to avoid repeating some... im-prove their grammar to the extent of penning a letter to Picture Post. But Indians who spend in England fourteen of their most formative years in the direct study of English and pass through Cambridge with distinction and show an undeniably extraordinary capacity to master difficult languages like Greek and Latin are not liable to be in the same case. Your reasoning is patetly twisted, if you'll ...
... part, of the Cambridge experience. The university’s atmosphere took hold of those who entered it and wrought a comprehensive change.’ 4 Aurobindo Ghose became an exceptional classical scholar and was soon also generally known as a master of the English language. An Englishman in later years travelling in India asked: ‘Do you know where Ghose is now, the classical scholar of Cambridge, who has come... of tea in the morning and in the evening a penny saveloy [sausage]’, 3 and there was no money to buy new clothes. Aurobindo decided to try and obtain a scholarship offered by King’s College of Cambridge University. He sat for the examination in December 1889 and came out first. Oscar Browning, then a renowned linguist and writer, confided later to Aurobindo that his papers for Greek and Latin had... submitted to him as an examiner in thirteen years. In his recently published Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography, Peter Heehs writes: ‘King’s College, founded in 1441, is among the older foundations of Cambridge University. As a classical scholar, Aurobindo was participating in an educational system whose traditions went back to the Renaissance. To master Greek and Latin, to read Homer and Sophocles, Virgil ...
... brought us both to India. Of his past I knew little save that it included a fellowship at, I think, Trinity College Cambridge, and that a distinguished Cambridge philosopher entertained great hopes from his brilliant abilities in mathematical philosophy of the specifically 'Cambridge' sort. ___________________ ' Poems by Arjava, pp. 285-S6. Page 317 Somewhere between the chinks... into the Kabalistic tradition and there was that in his eyes which showed unmistakably that it was not for the sake of a professorship in a provincial university that he had left his friends at Cambridge and crossed the seven seas. "Once more we met in a university bungalow at Lucknow, a background that I think we both found to be an utter irrelevance, and then we departed, I to the North and ...
... forms. Did the Head Master of St Paul's already see something of Sri Aurobindo's future destiny? Sri Aurobindo's school record mentions the fact that he went up to Cambridge with a scholarship to enter King's. Before leaving for Cambridge, he seems to have acquired a high degree of proficiency in the Classics, some intimacy with French (and, of course, English), and more than a nodding acquaintance... took his sons to England and left them there to continue their studies. For fourteen years, from 1879 to 1893, Sri Aurobindo lived in England, partly at Manchester, partly in London, and finally at Cambridge. Since even at home, in India, Krishnadhan had employed an English nurse, Miss Pagett, Sri Aurobindo had no—or very little knowledge of—Bengali when he arrived in England. At Manchester... example, nationalist speeches at the Indian Majlis and writing poetry. But, from another point of view, it was a life bereft of the usual consolations of a home. Sri Aurobindo left Cambridge for London in October 1892. He was expected to join the I.C.S., but as he repeatedly failed to appear for the Riding test, he was ultimately disqualified. It is clear Sri Aurobindo himself, "felt ...
... remarked by Rao Bahadur Dayaram Sahni, a colleague of Marshall's and the actual discoverer of the woven cloth in which a silver vase had been wrapped and which 3. The Indus Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 1968, p. 2. 4. "The Antecedents of Civilization in the Indus Valley", in Scientific American, August 1980, pp. 131-32. Page 155 was scientifically ascertained... Indus Valley Civilisation even when certain aspects are in common. And in this hypothesis of ours we are confirmed from another side also: Sutra-material apart from mention of cotton. The Cambridge History of India informs us: 6 "We find in the Sutras for the first time the recognition of images of the gods." There we have the characteristic iconism of the Harappa Culture thrown into relief... as between Aryan and semi-Aryan. They are proved contemporaries in vision and attitude in various ways that support our synchronisation of them on the score of cotton. (KPI: 53) 6. Cambridge History of India , Vol. I, p. 228. Page 157 Having used combined technical and literary arguments to establish that the Indus Valley Civilisation corresponds to the Sutra period ...
... Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939. The editor had drawn upon the notes of four students of that brilliant Austrian who had become the most influential thinker of his day with his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the list of the students I noticed the name : R. G. Bosanquet. My mind flew back to the late 'thirties when my brother had gone to Cambridge for a year and in the course... One has to go quietly stage by stage until the being is ready and even then it is only the Grace that can bring about the real supramental change."² (b) Talking of the Cambridge Englishman I may not inappropriately mention the Frenchman in whom I felt and ¹ On Yoga II, Tome Two (Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry 1958), pp. 206-207. ² Ibid., p ...
... 1911. In that year A. E. Housman delivered the Inaugural Lecture as Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge. There we have what Henry Jackson described at the time as Housman's "trouncing of Swinburne in respect of a reading of Shelley". With less open ferocity but with devastating irony, the Cambridge Professor, himself no mean poet, made Swinburne's comment his target example of—in Jackson's phrase... recently found among the papers of his brother Laurence. But in deference to the author's known scholarly conscience the Shelley-Swinburne passage was dropped. Later a complete text in book-form by the Cambridge University Press was projected for 1969. And in preparation for it John Carter and John Sparrow resumed the research. It is their discoveries that form the contents of the article I have mentioned ...
... Fritjof: Uncommon Wisdom , Flamingo, 1983 Carey, John (ed.): The Faber Book of Science , Faber and Faber, 1995 Chadwick, Owen: The Secularization of the European Mind in the 19th Century , Cambridge University Press, 1975 Chown, Marcus: Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You , Faber and Faber, 2007 Cobb, Matthew: The Egg & Sperm Race , Pocket Books, 2006 Collins, Francis: The Language of... 1984 Rose, Hilary and Steven (ed.): Alas, Poor Darwin , Vintage, 2001 Rothman, Tony, and others: Doubt and Certainty , Basic Books, 1998 Ruse, Michael: Darwinism and its Discontents , Cambridge University Press, 2006 Sagan, Carl: The Demon-Haunted World , Headline, 1996 — The Varieties of Scientific Experience , The Penguin Press, 2006 Schumacher, E.F.: A Guide for the Perplexed... , Vintage Books, 2007 Wolpert, Louis: The Unnatural Nature of Science , Faber and Faber, 1993 Wright, Robert: The Moral Animal , Vintage Books, 1995 Ziman, John: Reliable Knowledge , Cambridge University Press, 1992 Zimmer, Carl: Evolution , Arrow Books, 2005 — Soul Made Flesh , Free Press, 2005. ...
... liberation of his own country. But the "firm decision" took full shape only towards the end of another four years. It had already been made when he went to Cambridge and as a member and for some time secretary of the Indian Majlis at Cambridge he delivered many revolutionary speeches which, as he afterwards learnt, had their part in determining the authorities to exclude him from the Indian Civil Service;... Aurobindo did not form the society but he became a member along with his brothers. But the society was still-born. This happened immediately before the return to India and when he had finally left Cambridge. Indian politics at that time was timid and moderate and this was the first attempt of the kind by Indian students in England. In India itself Aurobindo's maternal grandfather Raj Narayan Bose formed ...
... 22. 4.II. 167. 5."Chandragupta and the Maurya Empire", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 56. 6. Chandragupta Maurya and His Times, p. 22. 7.Ed. E.B., Cowell and R. A. Neil (Cambridge, 1886), p. 370. Page 205 have exercised rule as small chiefs over some portions of Bihār 1 or of Bengal, 2 was, as its very name suggests, not Brāhman or Kshatriya but of... translation, p. 298. Of course Gupta families not Vaishya or Śūdra are known, but they are exceptions. 4. The Oxford History of India, p. 148. 5. The Gupta Empire, pp. 15-16. 6. The Cambridge Shorter History of India (1943), p. 88. 7."The Rise of the Guptas", The Classical Age, p. 3. Page 206 view. Of course the political value need not be underrated in order... even in ancient days. Reference is made, for example, in Jain literature to a terrible famine at the time of Chandragupta Maurya." Majumdar's "example" is drawn, as his footnote shows, from the Cambridge History of India, I, p. 65. There we find Jarl Charpentier informing us that, according to Jain records, at the time when Chandragupta Maurya "took possession of the throne...a dreadful famine ...
... Coleridge and Miss Raine's own poetry and its relationship to the Coleridgian tradition of romantic poetry. Indira is likely to be in London between 1st May & 8th May. Just now she is working in Cambridge. She is expected back here on the 12th May." I have asked Page 188 my friend to tell Dr. Indira to phone to you and take an appointment. I trust this will not inconvenience you much... because of scandals and drugs getting into the school and so on. The need is such that I believe it will come about. Please God it may. It is a great mistake to suppose that in these days Oxford and Cambridge are 'better' than the newer Universities. Even they lead the field in secularization and destructuring. And Indian universities go on copying them, they retain it seems in the Indian memory the prestige... was as you know a companion foundation with Santiniketan. It is urgently needed here to send out a few prepared educators to combat the miseducation of both schools and universities - Oxford and Cambridge not least - as these are now totally (or almost) in the hands of the secular materialist world. Many people would like to see a change, and it has to begin somewhere. Weekends and occasional lectures ...
... England. 1890 — Enters Trinity College, Cambridge 1908 — Made a Fellow of the Royal Society. 1910 — Entire decade devoted to collaboration with A. N. Whitehead on Principia Mathematica. First volume published this year. — Lecturer in Mathematical Logic at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1914 — Public speaker and pamphleteer... 1938-44 Stays in the United States. Very active in lecturing, radio, discussions, etc. 1944 — Returns to England. Elected to Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, for the second time. 1950 . — Nobel Prize for Literature. 1955 —Awarded the Silver Pears Trophy for work on behalf of World Peace. 1957 ...
... Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took an honours degree in natural science. His letters to his father from England reflect his deep interest in the fate of his country. He followed the progress of events at home and his sympathies lay with the extremist faction of the Indian National Congress, led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sri Aurobindo. After graduating from Cambridge, Jawaharlal joined... Euripides. Gilbert Murray's translation. A few dates 1889 (November, 14) - Birth of Nehru in Allahabad. 1905 - Goes to England for study in Harrow and Cambridge. 1912 - Return to India. 1912 - First arrest and jail. 1923 - Elected General Secretary of the Congress Party 1929 ...
... Before he came to the Ashram Arjava was a professor of mathematical or symbolic logic at Cambridge: his was a mind that used to move among arid abstractions. A distinguished Cambridge philosopher entertained great hopes from Chad-wick's brilliant abilities in mathematical philosophy of the specifically 'Cambridge' brand. Very soon after Arjava joined the Ashram, his sadhana under Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Vols, I-II, 1997. Dasgupta, S.N. and De, S. K,, History of Sanskrit Literature, University of Calcutta, 1947, Calcutta, Dasgupta, S,N,, A History of Indian Philosophy, Cambridge University , Press, Cambridge, 1932, Vols. I and II; 1940, Vol. Ill; 1949, Vols. IV and V Deutch Eliot, Advaita Vedanta; A philosophical reconstruction, East- West Centre Press, 1969, Honolulu, Diwanji... Diwanji, P. C., Bhagavad Gita and Astādhyāyī, Annuls of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1949, Poona. Flengen, Owen, Consciousness Reconsidered, MIT Press, 1992, Cambridge: Massachusetts. Goenka, Shrihari Krishnadas (ED, TR.), Śankarabhāsya on Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā, Gita Press, 1968, Gorakhpur, reprint. Page 107 Goenka, Shrihari Krishnadas, Śrimad Bhagavad Gītā, ...
... Eng- Page 295 land. He had been head of St. Paul's and won a scholarship at King's College, Cambridge. There he was a contemporary of Mr. Beachcroft I.C.S. who tried him at Alipore and who had been head of Rugby and had also won a scholarship at Cambridge. Both won honours at the University, and at the final examination for The Indian Civil Service Arabindo, the prisoner... utterly removed from us the reality of death." Uttarpara Speech by Sri Aurobindo On 6th May, 1909, the Alipore Sessions judge, Mr. Beachcroft, who was Sri Aurobindo's classfellow at Cambridge, acquitted Sri Aurobindo of all charges and released him. The release was foreknown to Sri Aurobindo, because it had been promised and predicted by God to him. God had destined a much vaster role ...
... distaste for that sugary stuff." Some of his poems have been incorporated in a few anthologies of English verse, published in England, and George Sampson, writing about him in his book, The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, says: "Manmohan (1867-1924) is the most remarkable of Indian poets who write in English. He was educated at Oxford, where he was the contemporary and friend of Laurence... life's mission but of the precise nature and extent of it, is proved by his intuitive recoil from all forms of ascetic, world-shunning spirituality. When perceiving the decided bent of his mind, his Cambridge friend, K.G. Despande, advised him to practise Yoga, he flatly refused, saying that it would lure him away from the life of action. In his essays on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, the maker of modern... after Sri Aurobindo's arrival at Baroda, he started contributing a series of political articles under the general title, "New Lamps for Old” to Induprakash, a weekly paper edited in Bombay by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande. "They were begun at the instance of K.G. Deshpande,... but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor ...
... Passes Matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890 July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis, a student group; makes speeches advocating Indian freedom. 1891 August to April 1892 Works on "The Vigil of Thaliard", a long ballad left unfinished... unfinished. 1892 May Passes the first part of the Classical Tripos, in the First Class. August Passes the Indian Civil Service final examination. October Leaves Cambridge. Takes lodgings at 6, Burlington Road, London. In London, takes part in the formation of a secret society called the "Lotus and Dagger". Has first "pre-yogic" experience, the mental experience ...
... Bengali, brought up both in India and England till his twentieth year in ignorance of his mother tongue, became a classical scholar, and wrote verses in Greek and Latin—and also in English—in his Cambridge days. He had besides an intimacy with several European literatures, and after returning to India, he tried to gain an equal intimacy with Sanskrit, Bengali and some other modern Indian literatures... s. Apart from the undergraduate Greek and Latin exercises in versification, all Sri Aurobindo's poetry is in English. The earliest pieces were probably written when he was in Cambridge, and some of the additions to Savitri were made a few weeks—almost a few days—before he passed away. This means a career extending over a period of sixty years. He was a poet before he became a teacher... entirely! While experimenting on classical metres, it was but natural that Sri Aurobindo should feel particularly attracted to the hexameter. It appears that one of his classmates at Cambridge, Hugh Norman Ferrar, once read out a line from Homer or a line from Arthur Hugh Clough that was typically Homeric which he thought was the most characteristic line, and that gave Sri Aurobindo ...
... December Passes matriculation from St. Paul's. 1890—July Admitted as a probationer to the Indian Civil Service. October 11 Admitted on a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, joins the Indian Majlis, a student group; makes speeches advocating Indian freedom. 1891—August to April 1892 Works on "The Vigil of Thaliard", a long ballad left unfinished. ... 1892 — May Passes the first part of the Classical Tripos, in the First Class. August Passes the Indian Civil Service final examination. October Leaves Cambridge. Takes lodgings at 6, Burlington Road, London. In London, takes part in the formation of a secret society called the "Lotus and Dagger". Has first "pre-yogic" experience, the mental experience of the Atman ...
... ies]. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash." We fleetingly came across Deshpande in Cambridge. Along with Sri Aurobindo, he was a member of the Indian Majlis there. In The Harmony of Virtue which he wrote while at Page 25 Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo named his chief character, Keshav Ganesh, after his college mate. After his return from England, Keshav... of the paper that if this went on he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the proprietor's instance. Deshpande requested his Cambridge friend to continue in a modified tone and he reluctantly consented. A. Ghose then "began to write about the philosophy of politics leaving aside the practical part of politics. But I soon got disgusted ...
... and he himself was destined to play a part in it. His attention was now drawn to India and this feeling was soon canalised into the idea of the liberation of his own country. At Cambridge University, between 1890 and 1892, Sri Aurobindo gave a number of "revolutionary speeches" before the "Indian Majlis", a student club. These speeches have unfortunately been lost. The only record... Mataram in August 1906. Many of them were not completed or published during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. India Renascent. 1890 - 92. Written in a notebook used by Sri Aurobindo at Cambridge. New Lamps for Old with India and the British Parliament The ten articles comprising "India and the British Parliament" and were published anonymously in the Indu Prakash... in 1893 and 1894. Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles on the invitation of K. G. Page 1165 Deshpande, the editor of the English section of the journal, whom he had known at Cambridge. "The first two articles", Sri Aurobindo later noted, made a sensation and frightened [Mahadev Govind] Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor of the paper that ...
... been taken out of India in 1881 when seven years old, tutored privately at first in an English family at Manchester, sent later to St. Paul's School in London and finally to King's College at Cambridge. The slowly unfolding answer to this query is the tale Professor K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar has to tell in the neatly got-up and chastely printed book of four hundred and odd pages entitled... literature of England the only "monument of the mind's magnificence" he is familiar with. From St. Paul's School, London, he went with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he took away in one year all the prizes for Greek and Latin verse. In the open I.C.S. examination in which he competed he scored record marks in these ancient languages that lie at the very... case for defence worked out through feverish months at the cost of his own health and the loss of a lucrative practice, Mr. Beach croft sitting in judgment over a man who had been with him at Cambridge and had beaten him there to second place in Greek and Latin! The charge of implication in the bomb-outrage at Muzzaferpore was torn to shreds by Das in a historic speech: Sri Aurobindo was acquitted ...
... "3736 years after the Kaliyuga." Going backwards by 3736 years from 634 A.D., we arrive at (3736-634=) 3102 B.C. 1. Cf. "Chandragupta, the Founder of the Maurya Empire" by F.W. Thomas. The Cambridge History of India, edited by E. J. Rapson (1922), I, pp. 471,473. See also the choice on p. 698 ("Chronology"), and Rc-mila Thapar, A History of India (A Pelican Original, Harmondsworth, 1966),... dynasties rated as Magadhan were not really so. But all this is irrelevant to our purpose and should not come in the way of grasping rightly the thrust of the Purānas in 1. "The Purānas", The Cambridge History of India. I. p. 306. C'f. the Mahābhārata, Mausala Parva. 1.1. Page 4 the chronological direction. Through whatever corruption of text and miscomprehension of history... inscriptions of Aśokachalla and one of 1. Op. cit.. p. 52. 2."The Expansion and Consolidation of the Empire", The Classical Age. p. 19. 3."The Scythian and Parthian Invaders", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 585. Page 24 Jayasena - all from Bengal - are dated from the cessation or destruction of a reign. 1 The very gauge-year which Albērūnī 2 uses -"the ...
... 1919 Left for England to pursue further studies at Cambridge. Subhash Chandra Bose joined him subsequently. July, 1920 Met Romain Rolland in Switzerland and sang before him; Romain Rolland praised his music. 1920-1921 Passed Part I mathematical tripos and Part I music special in Cambridge. 1921 Extremely impressionable, he took... career." Learnt French, German, Italian and a little of Russian. 1922 Went to Germany to study Western music. Lectured Page 21 At Cambridge: (standing ) Khitish Chandra Chatterjee and Subhash Chandra Bose; (seated ) Dilip Kumar Roy and C. C. Desai Page 22 at an international conference at Lugano ...
... Dasgupta, S.N., A History of Indian Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1932, Vols. I and II; 1940, Vol. Ill; 1949, Vols. IV and V. Deutch Eliot, Advaita Vedanta: A philosophical reconstruction, East- West Centre Press, 1969, Honolulu. Page 77 Flengen, Owen, Consciousness Reconsidered, MIT Press, 1992, Cambridge: Massachusetts. Heimann, Betty, Indian and ...
... With a scholarship from St. Paul's, left for Cambridge. Passed the Indian Civil Service Examination, but after the probationary period, did not turn up for the final riding test; for this and for anti-government speeches in England, was debarred from service. 1890-92 Joined King's College, Cambridge. Passed high in the first part (first class) of Classical... Classical Tripos in one year. 1892 Was Secretary of Indian Majlis, Cambridge, started this year. Gave speeches to the Mailis and to gatherings of Indian students on Indian politics, hinting at armed rebellion as the only means of attaining India,s freedom India Once keeping this on record. Days of extreme hardships, ...
... riding test," Sri Aurobindo said, recalling that particular episode in his life. It was 16 January 1939, and the conversation was recorded by Purani. "He did not send money and the riding lessons at Cambridge then were rather costly. The teacher was also careless ; so long as he got his money he simply left me with the horse and I was not particular." The final rejection of A. A. Ghose's candidature... of the Englishman for the Indian youth is touching. He took, in fact, a strong interest in all the three brothers. The other supportive Englishman was G. W. Prothero, then a Senior Tutor at Cambridge; he was a prominent historian, and was subsequently knighted. He dropped a letter to James Cotton the next day, that is 20 November 1892, which the latter forwarded to the Civil Service Commission... paid to Mr. A. A. Ghose. . . . "There is," observed the Judicial Secretary of the India Office, "in my opinion, no doubt whatever as to the propriety of paying this sum to Mr. Ghose. He went to Cambridge in the faith that he would receive his allowance, provided he behaved well, to defray the expenses of his residence in the University, and the fact that he has failed to pass in riding does not affect ...
... at a date considerably earlier...." 13 Thus, on Rapson's authority, we cannot base on the hymns the story of Rigvedic Aryans hailing from another country and invading the Indus Valley. The Cambridge History of India, from which we have quoted Rapson, has further to say through A.B. Keith: "It is certain... that the Rigveda offers no assistance in determining the mode in which the Vedic Aryans... new land reached from another country. B.K. Ghosh remarks: "It really cannot be proved that the Vedic Aryans retained any memory of their extra-Indian 13."Peoples and Languages", The Cambridge History of India, edited by E.J. Rapson, 1922, p. 43. 14."The Age of the Rigveda", ibid., p. 79. 15."Race-movements and Prehistoric Culture", The Vedic Age, p. 157. Page ...
... not have the character to become a medical practitioner, his father allowed him to join Trinity College, at Cambridge University, in order to study theology and become a member of the Anglican clergy. A college education was a sine qua non for a clergyman; this made the universities of Cambridge and Oxford the main breeding ground of the official religion. The prospect of a sinecure as a country clergyman ...
... nature and the universe had been put together and was functioning, one could not but deduce that there was a supreme Intelligent Being who had made it all. You had to conclude that God existed. At Cambridge William Paley’s book: Natural Theology – or Evidence of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature (1803) had been mandatory reading. Darwin had been fascinated... twentieth century. Even scientists and philosophers were happy to accept Ussher’s date well into the nineteenth century.” 7 “In the early nineteenth century even Charles Darwin would graduate from Cambridge University believing that the world was six thousand years old, give or take.” 8 As Bertrand Russell reminded us: “Nobody nowadays believes that the world was created in 4004 BC; but not so ...
... streams from an otherwise silent and reticent vastitude of knowledge and love and bliss. It was an unforgettable reward he accorded to us for our humble service.’ 16 ‘Sri Aurobindo had a pure Cambridge accent,’ writes Udar, ‘and if you didn’t see him, you’d think it was an Englishman speaking.’ 17 Thanks to Sri Aurobindo’s obedient execution of all prescribed exercises, and maybe still... Chandra Bose. His close friend in the Ashram was Dilip K. Roy, who at one time had tried to entice him into becoming an Ashramite. Subhash C. Bose was a Bengali who, like Sri Aurobindo, had studied at Cambridge University as a candidate for the Indian Civil Service. He had, however, submitted his resignation before being enlisted and entered nationalist politics under the aegis of C.R. Das, the lawyer-t ...
... felt the impress of the bud-form of what traditional Indians continue to call the "lotus-feet" of the Avatar who was their Guru. Perhaps the most sacred spot is the room at King's College, Cambridge, where young Aurobindo was unfolding his powers the most with superb proficiency in Greek and Latin side by side with mastery in English and where the founts of poetic inspiration were first unsealed... counterpart to the inner secrecies, hover in the preluding speech of the dialogue named "Songs to Myrtilla". They are also likely to have beckoned to Aurobindo in his late teens during his stay in that Cambridge-room. His expression of them is surprisingly mature with a distinct originality in a genre that is part Wordsworth, part Shelley and part Keats: Page 330 When earth is full of whispers ...
... "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is stronger: And lightning 'twixt the eyes intolerable Like heaven's vast eagle all that blackness swept Down over the inferior snowless... improve their grammar to the extent of penning a letter to Picture Post. But Indians who spend in England fourteen of their most formative years in the direct study of English and pass through Cambridge with distinction and show an undeniably extraordinary capacity to master difficult languages like Greek and Latin are not liable to be in the same case. If you'll forgive my being blunt, your reasoning ...
... that he deserves an essay which might well be entitled Chadwick and His Place in the World . For it is not as a philosopher or mathematical logician that he has become significant, nor was it at Cambridge that he did so. Only after leaving Trinity College to sail to India and after throwing up a professorship at an educational institution at Lucknow he suddenly flowered into a poet of exceptional quality... noblest music. Curiously enough the verses that equal them are just the two that also end with the same word's long rounded o and bell-like consonance — the lines on Newton's face in the bust at Cambridge: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And here it may be significant to mention that the terminal "alone" is not confined to ...
... reconstructions.—Ed. × L. E. Kastner, ed., A Book of French Verse: From Marot to Mallarmé ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936 ). × "Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui" (see page 404 ...
... Sandrocottus with an intervening chain of 153 kings to the ancient monarch of India whom the Greeks named Dionysus. By doing it we should be 1. "India in Early Greek and Latin Literature", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 409. Page 67 able to decide between Chandragupta Maurya and Chandragupta I for Sandrocottus and between the rise of the Mauryas and the rise of the Imperial... consider an alternative to his count - by a single addition. His list of the Āndhras 3 has No. 24a within brackets, a name mentioned in one copy (e) alone of the Vayu Purāna. 4 "A 1. The Cambridge History of India, p. 300. 2. Tribes in Ancient India (Poona, 1943), p. 95. 3. Op. cit., p. 36. 4. Ibid., p. 37. Page 92 line found in only one MS.," Pargiter ...
... one or 1. Ibid., p. 66. 2. Ibid., pp. 303-04. 3. Aśoka and His Inscriptions, Part II, p. 42. 4."Language and Literature", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 275. 5. The Cambridge Shorter History of India (1943), p. 40. Page 547 two details collected from elsewhere. The post-Megasthenes character of the book is deduced from a number of facts. "Reference to... Readings in Kautilya's Arthaśāstra (Agam Prakashan, Delhi, 1976), p. 172. 2. Ibid., p. 170. 3. Op. cit., p. 475. 4. Op. cit., II, p. 175. 5. Op. cit., p. 464. 6. The Cambridge History of India, (1923), I, p. 485. Page 580 imagines those scriptures to be "archaising" - for no reason he can provide. The interplay of all these testimonies among themselves ...
... country has never been conquered by any foreign king; for all other nations dread the overwhelming number and strength of these animals. Thus Alexander the Macedonian, after conquering 1. The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 468, fn. 5. 2. Ibid., p. 469. 3. The Classical Accounts of India, p. 234. Page 153 all Asia, did not make war upon the Gangaridai, as... lands through which, together with its tributaries, it flowed. But the query inevitably arises. "Why should all the people of 1. Ibid., p. 170. 2.'Alexander the Great". The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 370, fn. 4. Page 157 the Ganges-region be classed under one rubric as if they made a single nation?" The sole answer can be: "They were all either ...
... Civil Service during his term at Cambridge he knew no Indian tongue. He heard and spoke English through the most formative period of his youth and up to the end of his life one could mistake his pronunciation for an Englishman's. When he began to write poetry in England he was not expressing anything Indian any more than when he wrote in Greek and Latin at Cambridge and won prizes for his compositions ...
... should not dismiss as fanciful a comparison if what is said about a thing by a later poet is said by the earlier about something else which accompanies the same or an analo- 1. English Blake (Cambridge), l949, p. 140. 2. Cf. S. Foster Damon: "...the works of Milton influenced Blake more than any other book except the Bible" ("Blake and Milton" in The Divine Vision, Studies in the Poetry and... evidence of Trinitarian-ism, Anti-Trinitarianism, a Trinity of modes or one of mani- 156. The Great Argument (Princeton), 1941. 157. Op. cit., p. 12. 158. Milton and Wordsworth (Cambridge) 1938, p. 98. 159. Op. cit.. pp. 22-38. 160. Ibid., pp. 25, 26. Page 101 festations. But he does not wish his dogma to obtrude. It did not obtrude with Newton, or with Todd ...
... Homer) by some clever schoolboy or graduate's imitation of the Aeneid or the Iliad? There is an astonishing virtuosity (of course Aurobindo would have carried off the prize, whether from Eton or from Cambridge or Oxford) but would any true poet have given his time and energy to such an exercise? There are of course fine .things; the concept of the sun rising for the last time on the doomed city; some passages... being a true poet. I know that the poetic power does come at times with the growth in Yoga. John Chadwick, a fine intellect trained Page 88 in mathematical logic to whom the famous Cambridge philosopher C. D. Broad dedicated his book of acute exposition, The Mind and Its Place in Nature, turned a poet of remarkable insight and expressive force after a few years under Sri Aurobindo. ...
... 52.Op. cit., pp.45,59 53. Chance and Necessity (Collins, London, 1972), pp. 35-36. 54. My View of the World (The Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1964). 55. The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution Theory and Its Relation to the Spirit of Man 56."Drive ...
... 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 tell him Percy Mead of Cambridge was inquiring after him. Good night!" A couple of years later, I recounted the tale to Aurobindo. He replied promptly, "Yes, I remember young Mead. He was ...
... CHRONOLOGICALLY Indu Prakash English-Marathi Weekly Bombay Sri Aurobindo contributed two series of articles to this newspaper, which was edited by his Cambridge friend K. G. Deshpande. New Lamps for Old appeared in nine instalments from August 7, 1893 to March 5, 1894. This series was preceded by another political article, "India and the British Parliament"... [Trade] Edition: , Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1923 The 1923 edition contains twenty-one poems, all except five written between 1890 and 1892 while Sri Aurobindo was a student at Cambridge: "Songs to Myrtilla", ''0 Coil, Coil", "Goethe", "The Lost Deliverer", "Charles Page 404 Stewart Pamell", "Hie Jacet", "Lines on Ireland", "On a Satyr and Sleeping Love" ...
... Indian Majlis at Cambridge, and later joined the secret society, the "Lotus and Dagger" in London. His interest in the Irish liberation movement under Parnell s, perhaps, a reflection of Sri Aurobindo's increasing concern with the situation in India. And his rejection from the Indian Civil Service - partly manoeuvred "y himself and partly provoked by his political activities at Cambridge - opened the ...
... to sightseeing." Mano did not join any Clubs. "The only thing I have joined is the Junior Common Room where they have debates, cigarettes, stamps, sweetmeats etc." The scholars at Oxford or Cambridge had to work hard if they did not want their scholarship of £ 80 reduced or taken away. Poor M. M. Ghose had also to contend with his health. He was often sick —no, not with hard work! —for he seemed... "I and my eldest brother, at any rate, were living quite a Spartan life," said Sri Aurobindo. "Manmohan was extravagant, if you like," he said with an amused twinkle in his eyes. "When I went to Cambridge, I was introduced to a tailor who made suits for me on credit. When I returned to London, he traced me there and got introduced to Manmohan also. Manmohan got a red velvet suit made —not staring red ...
... the dawn of the twentieth century. Of course, he was not yet 'Sri' Aurobindo, just Arabindo Babu. This Cambridge-educated young man seemed to have gathered into himself all the qualities and more of his illustrious predecessors like Bacon, Darwin, Milton, Newton, Wordsworth, all Cambridge men. Arabindo Babu's keen wit was more than a match for the subtle and daring policy of Curzon, who was ...
... Sanskrit story-cycle written by Somadeva Bhatta. INCOMPLETE AND FRAGMENTARY PLAYS (1891 - 1915) The Witch of Ilni. Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece when he was an undergraduate at Cambridge. The manuscript bears dates ranging between October and December 1891. The source of the plot of The Witch of Ilni is not known, but the play evidently owes much to Milton's Comus and... Phantom Hour , but was never completed. Incomplete and Fragmentary Stories (1891 - 1912) Fictional Jottings. Sri Aurobindo wrote down these lines on two pages of a notebook he used at Cambridge between 1890 and 1892. Fragment of a Story. Sri Aurobindo wrote this piece around 1904, either in Baroda or while on vacation in Bengal. The Devil's Mastiff. Nothing is known ...
... Perhaps they do not give them out or they might have disposed of them. Not likely that they keep such things. 1 May 1936 A Cambridge Anecdote While we all agree that we all lie, X thinks she is incapable of lying. Lies? Well, a Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive profundity of his affirmation: "Liars! But we are all liars!" It appeared ...
... years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in [1884] 1 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed also the open competition for the Indian Civil Service, but at the end of two years of probation failed to present himself at the riding examination... and Latin. He had learned French from his childhood in Manchester and studied for himself German and Italian sufficiently to read Goethe and Dante in the original tongues. (He passed the Tripos in Cambridge in the first division and obtained record marks in Greek and Latin in the examination for the Indian Civil Service.) [ Sri Aurobindo's note; see pages 12-13 . ] ...
... St. Paul's School at Darjeeling, and then, when he showed unusual promise, to King's College, Cambridge.... ... His chosen medium of expression is English. Another error is worth correcting. The reviewer seems to assume that Sri Aurobindo was sent straight from India to King's College, Cambridge, and that he had [to] learn English as a foreign language. This is not the fact; Sri Aurobindo ...
... jails and thus become an expert on his subject! [ Another version: ] The facts about the articles in the Indu Prakash were these. They were begun at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, who was editor of the paper, but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor of the paper that, if this went on,... 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 at the meetings of the Indian Majlis which were recorded as a black mark against him by the India Office. Page 68 ...
... his seventh to his twenty-first year in England, first at St. Paul's School, London, and then at King's College, Cambridge. Over and above using the English language as if it were his mother-tongue, he was a brilliant classical scholar who made his mark not only at Cambridge but also in the open competition for the I.C.S. by his record scoring in Greek and Latin. Fluent knowledge of French ...
... The Purāna Texts of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, p. 26 with fn. 24; p. 69 with fn. 20. 2. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 31. 3."Chandragupta, the Founder of the Maurya Empire", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 469. 4.Barua, Aśoka and His Inscriptions (Calcutta, 1946), Part I, p. 43. 5. Ibid., p. 45. Page 176 amused"? The test is: Does the M... seat at this city. The Purānas figure the Nāgas as flourishing at other centres too: Kantipuri, Mathura, Padmavati. 2 The prevalence of Nāga rule 1."Alexander the Great", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 370, fn. 4. 2. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 169. Page 188 over considerable portions of Northern India in the historical context within which ...
... , 1972. Bateson, F. W. Selected Poems of William Blake, Edited with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes (Heinemann, London), 1957. Blackstone, Bernard English Blake (Cambridge), 1949. Boehme Signatura Rerum and Other Discourses (Everyman's Library, London). Translation by William Law, first published in 4 Vols., 1764-1781. Bowra, E. M. The Romantic... Northrop "Blake After Two Centuries" in English Romantic Poets, Modern Essays in Criticism, edited by M. H. Abrams (New York), 1960. Grierson, Sir Herbert Milton and Wordsworth (Cambridge), 1938. Hanford, J. H. A Milton Handbook (Fourth Edition, New York), 1946. Harding, D. W. "William Blake" in From Blake to Byron, edited by Boris Ford (Pelican Books, H ...
... Tyger. Kathleen Raine was already a big name in English writing by 1960. Born on 14th June 1908 in Essex, Raine had a happy childhood, adored by her parents. A student of Girton College, Cambridge, she began publishing poetry which became a life-long passion. Unlike many of her contemporaries, she believed that a power beyond the mind - call it imagination or whatever - was the source of creativity... Greek mythology (the mythology I knew best, as all children in England did at one time) and the Gods were entirely real to me." But then a curiosity about life had led her to Natural Sciences at Cambridge and away from the loftier flights of ancient mythology though she came back to the Platonic tradition by her involvement with Blake. Instead of dissecting Tyger the two correspondents experience the ...
... motherland, its culture and its religions. Later Aravinda would study at the renowned St. Paul’s School in London and at King’s College in Cambridge. While still a student, and throughout his life, he was recognised for his mastery of the English language. Also, Cambridge made him into a classical scholar. Yet he did not become what his father wanted him to be: a member of the prestigious Indian Civil Service ...
... that master neurologists and brain-specialists refuse to equate consciousness with the cerebral organ. Thus Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, in his Presidential Address in 1966 to the British Association at Cambridge, entitled "Science and Scientists" says: "... what remains utterly incomprehensible is how and why the brain becomes the vehicle of conscious- ness.... Some philosophers have wanted to talk away the... Necessity (Collins, London, 1972), pp. 120-21. 6. Ibid., p. 122. 7. Ibid. 8. The Theory of the Living Organism (Melbourne University Press, 1943). 9. Process and Reality (Cambridge, 1929). 10. The Living Stream, p. 172. 11. Ibid., p. 190. 12. Ibid., pp. 281-82. 13. Ibid., pp. 231-32. 14. Ibid., p. 232. 15. Ibid., p. 233. 16. Ibid ...
... date considerably earlier... ." 14 Thus, on Rapson's authority, we cannot base on the hymns the story of Rigvedic Aryans hailing from another country and invading the Indus Valley. The Cambridge History of India , from which we have quoted Rapson, has further to say through A.B. Keith: "It is certain... that the Rigveda offers no assistance in determining the mode in which the Vedic Aryans... patently inadequate. Even if the non-Aryan peoples inside India were like those outside whom the invaders may have known, the country en- 14. "Peoples and Languages", The Cambridge History of India, edited by E.J. Rapson, 1922, p. 43. 15. "The Age of the Rigveda", ibid ., p. 79. 16. "Race-movements and Prehistoric Culture", The Vedic Age, p. 157. Page 467 ...
... fame in the world was a long brilliant essay on Milton. Essay on Milton - this brings us to our second picture. Instead of a young Englishman going to India, we have a younger Indian at Cambridge, the University of both Macaulay and Milton. This Indian undergraduate has lately come up from St. Paul's School of London, the very school which Milton had attended. Now the year is 1890. On the... prose like poetry. Oscar Browning was a super-don, nothing more, but he had a fine literary sense and could pick out good writing - poetry or prose - unerringly. The letter from King's College, Cambridge, after calling O.B. "the feature par excellence of King's", reads: "He said to me: ''I suppose you know you passed an extraordinarily high examination. I have examined papers at thirteen examinations ...
... send me a little force. What more can you do—since our mentality and ādhārs are so obstinately dark and unluminous not to be able to be up so much spiritually. However — cheeri — oh Guru — a la Cambridge. Could not do much meditation for the past two days with Mother thanks to this awful nuisance of cough—that is another irksome obstacle on top of my enough obstacles and to spare. Page 22 ... much moved—to write like that. More important is Dhurjati's letter. Have just written to Dr. James Cousins at Madanapalli. He used to like me very much, once his wife (Dr. of Music of Cambridge) wrote I sing like a king, etc. So he may help D. M. to get him a cottage. I will pranam you a second time for Dhurjati and his brother, also for Jawaharlal and my friend Mrs. Miller who sends ...
... helped me out by adding the second stanza, thus saving me from Arjava's wrath. I don't know whetheryou've heard of Arjava - agreat poet, a Cambridge mathematician. There is another miracle for you, my friends. Another miracle! A Cambridge mathematician turned into a poet in the Ashram by Sri Aurobindo! His name was Arjava - you know, Arjava means 'straight' - and he was really tall like ...
... myself, a dream, A prospect in my mind. In 1787 he went to Cambridge. Here he fell in with the ordinary ways of student life, roaming aimlessly with his friends about town, riding, sailing and going to parties. While there seemed to be a danger that he might be carried away by the common tide of life at Cambridge, his memories of the experiences at Hawkshead made him conscious of a spirit ...
... you were in England was he sending you money regularly? Sri Aurobindo : In the beginning. But afterwards he sent less and less and ultimately he stopped altogether. I had my scholarship at Cambridge but that was not enough to cover the fees and other expenses. So once the tutor wrote to him about money. Then he sent the exact sum for the fees and wrote a letter lecturing to me about extravagance... After one year like that to talk of extravagance was absurd. But Mono Mohan could not stand it; he went out and lived in a boarding house and ate nicely without money. There was a tailor at Cambridge who used to tempt me with all sorts of clothes for suits and make me buy them; of course, he gave credit. Then I went to London. He somehow traced me there and found Mono Mohan and canvassed orders ...
... and months, on end. The case commenced in the Alipur Sessions Court on 19 October 1908. Mr. C. P. Beachcroft, the District and Sessions Judge, who tried the case, had been with Sri Aurobindo at Cambridge, and had stood second in Greek while the other - now the accused - had stood first. Beachcroft had now (he very unpleasant task of "trying" the caged Sri Aurobindo on a charge of waging war against... the King. So dangerous were the accused in the eyes of the panicky Government that they were kept throughout in a cage during the trial, with wire-netting and locking arrangements. Another of his Cambridge contemporaries and class-mates, Ferrar, who was a practising barrister in Malaya, happened to pass through Calcutta at the time, and felt most concerned when he saw Sri Aurobindo in the court-case ...
... home and at the boarding school at Darjeeling. During his stay of almost fourteen years in England, he first grew in general ignorance of conditions in India. But gradually, during the years at Cambridge, his eyes were opened to Indian realities when his father began sending copies of the Bengalee, with passages marked relating to the instances of British misgovernment in India. Even at the ... Sri Aurobindo had awakened strongly to the feeling that the world - and India - would soon see great revolutionary changes, and that he himself was destined to play a part in the movement; at Cambridge the feeling hardened into a settled conviction. He took a leading part in the Indian Majlis and was for a time its secretary. Later, in London, he joined the still-born secret society the 'Lotus ...
... Charles Portent Beachcroft was the District and Sessions Judge for 24-Parganas and Hooghly at the time of the Alipore Bomb Case trial. A good cricketer, he had been a scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, during the same two years that Sri Aurobindo was a fellow at King's College of the same university. Both A.A. Ghose and CP. Beachcroft had passed the Open Page 473 Competitive ... the defence of Sri Aurobindo. Brahma Bandhav Upadhyay came three times to tell me." That was through planchette, for Upadhyay had died one year earlier. C.R. Das, who had known Ara from their Cambridge days, and who was one of his Nationalist collaborators, put aside his large practice and devoted himself for months to the defence of his friend, "who left the case entirely to him and troubled no ...
... Aurobindo did not form the society, but he became a member along with his brothers. But the society was still-born. This happened immediately before the return to India and when he had finally left Cambridge. Indian politics at that time was timid and moderate and this was the first attempt of the kind by Indian students in England." Sri Aurobindo was to change that 'timid and moderate' approach in Indian... the mailboat Carthage when she set sail for India on 12 January, Vivekananda's thirtieth birth anniversary. He had driven from 6 Burlington Road, where he had taken lodgings after leaving Cambridge in October 1892, to the docks of Thames where his ship was anchored. The Carthage left the London's Royal Albert docks around 9 A.M. On her deck stood A. A. Ghose. After she reached the open sea ...
... & such various powers of original thought & appreciation as literature & history; yet it is the invariable experience of the most brilliant mathematical students who go from Calcutta or Bombay to Cambridge that after the first year they have exhausted all they have already learned and have to enter on entirely new & unfamiliar result. It is surely a deplorable thing that it should be impossible to acquire ...
... of the Tyrant of Syracuse. When King Henry VIII was in a hurry to marry Anne Boleyne he is said to have addressed the following instructions to Lord Rochford:—"Take this doctor (Thomas Cranmer of Cambridge) to your country-house and there give him a study and no end of books to prove that I can marry your daughter." Such is the history of many an invention. The London Times and the Pioneer ...
... through so considerable a length of English blank verse. Both Love and Death and Urvasie bear traces of the influence of Stephen Phillips's Christ in Hades and Marpessa. During his Cambridge days Sri Aurobindo had seen Christ in Hades in manuscript — a memorable and fecundating event. Marpessa got even more under his skin. Stephen Phillips is at present a forgotten name because he ...
... y, 1971), PP- 23-4. 2. Bulletin of the Anthropological Survey of India, Vol. 9, No. 2, July 1960, Memorandum No. 9, "Human Skeletal Remains from Harappā". 3. The Indus Civilization (Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 68. 4. Ibid. Page 19 pean" as applicable to a part of the Harappān population is an eye-opener. Equally startling is Sankalia's summing up ...
... self-respect: Why must a rational man be led to kowtow to what his reason cannot label or docket? I recall a remark Tagore made years ago. He and Bertrand Russell had once gone out for a stroll in Cambridge. As they passed by King's College Chapel Page 124 they heard a choral hymn being sung by the boys: lovely music! Tagore suggested to Russell that they step inside the Chapel ...
... power of the Divine; the Mother and Energy of the worlds. Shunya — void; the Nothing which is All. Sorley, Prof. —William Ritchie Sorley (1855-1935), professor of philosophy at Cambridge, England. Soul — the psychic essence or entity, the divine essence in the individual; Page 415 a spark of the Divine that comes down into the manifestation to support the ...
... teachers, was born in 1948 in Germany where he spent the first thirteen years of his life. He graduated from the University of London, after which he was a research scholar and supervisor in physics at Cambridge University. Until his thirtieth year he lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety and depression, at times of a suicidal nature. One night, not long after his twenty-ninth birthday, he ...
... 927 These words were spoken by the Indian philosopher and yogi Sri Aurobindo in the course of a conversation on the last day of 1938. Sri Aurobindo was educated at St Paul’s School in London and at Cambridge University; he was an accomplished classical scholar who remembered his Greek and Latin perfectly even in South India and at an advanced age; he had been one of the leading revolutionary politicians ...
... biography. The time he wrote jokingly that he would have to write a book about what he did not do in his life, to contradict the many false rumours, is long past. We know of his fame as a classical Cambridge scholar and a master of the English language; we know of his years in Baroda and his study of the Indian culture and its classical literature; and we know of his crucial role as an Indian politician ...
... as he was and is still called in India. Subhash Chandra Bose, though born in the old Oriya town of Cuttack, was a Bengali. He also, like Sri Aurobindo some thirty years earlier, had studied at Cambridge University for the Indian Civil Service, but he had submitted his resignation before being enlisted. His mentor was Chittaranjan Das, the barrister who had defended Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb ...
... families of Bengal.’ His father was a poet and playwright, and Dilip, when still young, made a name for himself as a singer mainly of religious songs, after having studied mathematics and music in Cambridge. He spoke several Indian languages besides English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas ...
... equivalent of high treason. ‘The Alipore Bomb Trial, as it became known, was “the first state trial of any magnitude in India.”’ 11 The judge was C.E. Beachcroft, ICS, a classmate of Aurobindo’s at Cambridge. (In the entrance examination of their ICS class Beachcroft had come second to Aurobindo in Greek; ironically, in the final examination, Beachcroft had done better than Aurobindo in Bengali.) After ...
... stage, and may always be,” is the conclusion of John Horgan’s inquiry in Rational Mysticism . Here the following quotation from Brian Pippard (1920-2008), the late Cavendish professor of physics at Cambridge University, may be apt: “The scientist is right to despise dogmas that imply a God whose grandeur does not match up to the grandeur of the universe he knows. But when we have chased out the mountebanks ...
... then we all lie, Guru! So why are we so profoundly shocked when others repeat our favourite pastime? Please elucidate." Page 156 "Lies?" he wrote back. "Well, a Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive profundity of his affirmation: 'Liars! But we are al1 liars!' It appeared that he had intended to say 'lawyers,' but his pronunciation ...
... singer and used to Page 400 sing Meera bhajans in love of Krishna. She passed away in 1976. 113 . Mrinalini Chattopadhyay (1883 - 1968), Harm's sister. Tripos in Philosophy from Cambridge University. An educationist. She first came to see Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry in 1919, then in May-June 1920 when she introduced Mother into wearing a sari. From then on, she continued her visits ...
... It was to "Kalyaniya Dilipkumar Roy" that Rabindranath dedicated his book Chhanda. The quote is from the very first letter to J.D. Anderson, I. C. S., Professor of Bengali at King's College, Cambridge, where they met on 14 July 1912. Anderson passed away on 24 October 1920, at the age of 67. Page 298 Their correspondence—in Bengali and English—throws much light on the nature ...
... and, as she was often drawing from her own experience, that these talks had a flavour which was her very own. Besides, they were held in French of the highest quality. Sri Aurobindo was, from his Cambridge days onwards, generally recognized as a master of English. The Mother’s mastery of her mother tongue is rarely appreciated, in the first place because few English-speaking people read French and also ...
... persistently stumble a little in his language? Mind you, the tendency to be "precious" - that is, over-refined in the choice of words - which Dr. Gokak notes in part of the production of Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge-days is not at all pointed at as "a bit awkward" in its English embodiment. The English of Songs to Myrtilla is nowhere found un-English in the least measure. All the more amazing, then, that a ...
... will mature and realise something of that infinite unknown within himself and exclaim to the Supreme Beloved in the words of the young Aurobindo romantically mysticising in some clear evening at Cambridge in mid-spring: My spirit is a heaven of thousand stars And all these lights are thine and open doors on thee. (4.10.1986) There are a number of good insights in your letter: (1) "a ...
... rivalled by few others then. He had studied in some of the best institutions there and intimately knew many of the leading personalities. There was the possibility of higher education at Oxford or Cambridge followed by a coveted academic career or an equally attractive future in law and civil services. An estimate of H.G. Wells that Sethna wrote, when barely nineteen, was sent to Wells himself by a Parsi ...
... impregnate any theme he might adopt. The blank verse we shall select and scrutinise was written in his youth and in the comparative seclusion of the Baroda State Service taken up by him on return from Cambridge. Yet even here there is a puissant pulse and a vibrant complexity of perception within a chosen orbit, and while the "translunary things" without which poetry cannot exist are perhaps made here more ...
... Animals in India and Pakistan", Ancient Cities of the Indus, edited by Gregory L. Possehl (Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1979), p. 240, col. 2. 4. The Indus Civilization (Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 92. Page 170 Harappan occupation - not to mention a terracotta horse-figure at Lothal as well as horse-figurines and paintings at Rangpur 5 - it is ...
... "bugash", 35 Bull-worship, 38, 42 Burrow, T., 50fn., 130, 131, 132, 133, 135fn. Buxton, 21 Byron, 90 Cairn-burials, 4 Caldwell, Bishop, 30 Cambridge History of India, The, 11 Cappadocia, 89 Casal, 46 Caspian, Caspian Sea, 18, 69, 72, 74, 87 Caucasians, 21 Caucasic, 19 Chayamana (Cāyamāna) Abhyavartin ...
... "nowhere is a donkey shown" 7 and yet the bones of the domestic ass (Equus asinus) have been recovered from 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid: 5. The Indus Civilization by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (Cambridge, 1968), p. 104. 6. lbid., p. 82. 7. The Roots of Ancient India by Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. (George Allen & Unwin, London, 1971), p. 277. Page 180 Harappā. 8 Unless ...
... are two aspects of the divine birth; one is a descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead 2.According to S. Dasgupta, it is even pre-Buddhistic (A History of Indian Philosophy, Cambridge, 1922-55, Vol, II, p. 551). R.C, Zaehner opines that it was composed in the third or fourth century B.C. {Hinduism, New York, Oxford University Press, 1962, p. 93). 3.Dharma = right moral ...
... is a polymath, knowing many arts and sciences, a learning lifted by enlightening intuition and deepened by spiritual insight. Confined to a wheel-chair, like Stephen Hawking, the legendary Cambridge theoretical astrophysicist, though hardly as a near-physical wreck, he can see with his mind's eye (--) or is it with the Upanishadic Eye of the Eye? — bright worlds stretching beyond our visible ...
... families of Bengal.’ His father was a poet and playwright, and Dilip, when still young, made a name for himself as a singer, mainly of religious songs, after having studied mathematics and music in Cambridge. Besides several Indian languages he spoke English, French and German. Among his acquaintances were Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Bertrand Russell, Georges Duhamel and Subhas ...
... is now renamed University College. He has now a castle which is his residence in Bishop Auckland, about twenty miles from Durham. Durham University is the third oldest in England after Oxford and Cambridge, and like them it is residential. As is to be expected, this University has a very good and strong School of Theology. The University of Durham at the time I visited it in September 1959 had two ...
... education in England gave him a wide introduction to the culture of ancient, of mediaeval and of modern Europe. He was a brilliant scholar Page 12 in Greek and Latin, | passed the Tripos in Cambridge in the first division, obtained record marks in Greek and Latin in the examination for the Indian Civil Service |. He had learned French from his childhood in Manchester and studied for himself Italian ...
... given no standing-ground by what has come to be known as "extra-sensory perception". Researches in extrasensory perception have been carried out under test conditions and statistical scrutiny in Cambridge and Duke University in North California. When anything Page 49 is transmitted across physical space, the distance diminishes the strength in exact inverse ratio; but controlled ...
... Member of the UNESCO (NGO) on behalf of the Sri Aurobindo Society. Shri Bhattacharjee had recently the extra-ordinary privilege to be invited by Sri Aurobindo’s own alma mater, King's College, Cambridge, to speak on his Master's life and spiritual message to humanity. Thanks are due to him for popularising, wherever he has been in his frequent tours abroad as well as in India, K.D. Sethna's work ...
... this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless towers of Ilium? If we want the ideative side in prominence, we shall be very well served by Wordsworth's response at Cambridge to the statue of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. A masterly art is here, inspired and ...
... "Elsewhere there are many pleasant lines of a derivative nature and it is interesting to find traces of the influence of that Yellow Book character, the poet Stephen Phillips, who was at Cambridge with Sri Aurobindo. The Tennysonian influence is still stronger: And lightning 'twixt the eyes intolerable Like heaven s vast eagle all that blackness swept Down over the inferior ...
... by a case for defence worked out through feverish months at the cost of his own health and the loss of a lucrative practice, Mr. Beachcroft sitting in judgment over a man who had been with him at Cambridge and had beaten him there to second place in Greek and Latin - through all the dramatic vicissitudes of those eight years ran not only the occult insight of genuine patriotism but also the mystical ...
... persistently stumble a little in his language? Mind you, the tendency to be "precious" — that is, over-refined in the choice of words — which Dr. Gokak notes in part of the production of Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge-days is not at all pointed at as "a bit awkward" in its Engligh embodiment. The English of Songs to Myrtilla is nowhere found un-English in the least measure. All the more amazing, then, that a ...
... direction of "dream-life", "spontaneous feeling", "liberation of the less conscious levels of the mind". Page 13 References 1. The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (Cambridge), First Edition 1936; Latest Edition 1954, p. 4. 2. Ibid., pp. 9-14. 3. An Outline of English Literature (London), 1956, p. 171. 4.Lucas, op. cit., pp. 24-25. 5.Lucas, op. cit ...
... year of your life has been marked by a notable incident. In 1908 the Vasudev experience, in 1926 the Overmind descent. SRI AUROBINDO: What about 1890? I don't know of anything except going to Cambridge. NIRODBARAN: You got a scholarship, perhaps. PURANI: They are fitting facts to theory, like Spengler in The Decline of the West. ...
... to have an Elizabethan turn of expression! Then, apropos of S and N, the topic of fear of death came up. They were known to cover up their bodies for fear of catching cold. SRI AUROBINDO: At Cambridge we were discussing physical development. Then one fellow, in order to show how splendid his health was, began to take off his shirt and underwear, one after the another. We found that there were ten ...
... that time. I couldn't have finished reading all the writings of Bankim or perhaps I wrote the articles during the first enthusiasm of my learning the language. Of course we started learning it [at] Cambridge—the judge, Beachcroft, was one of us—under an Anglo-Indian pundit. He used to teach us Vidyasagar. One day we hit upon a sentence of Bankim's and showed it to him. He began to shake his head and said ...
... I had passed my advanced examinations in both many years back in Rajkot. My physical mother was anxious that my younger sister and I should learn music, Hindi and Sanskrit. I was doing my Senior Cambridge in East Africa. I had to give up my studies there and come to India to learn about Indian culture. I passed my Matriculation exam in Rajkot and joined a college for several months. Then back to Africa ...
... the double guise of a Principium Sociale 14.See chapter in Structure et physiologie des sociétés animales (CNRS, Paris), 1952. 15.J .T. Bonner, The Evolution of Development (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1958). 16.& 17. Geddes and Thomson, The Evolution of Sex, pp. 329-330. Page 208 and a Principium Individuationis." 18 But the problem of harmoni-sation ...
... word created, usually with humorous intent, by blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others. Examples: (i) 'motel' for 'motor' + 'hotel'. (ii) 'Oxbridge' for Oxford + Cambridge. ("You are doing something against Oxbridge tradition.") 13.Palindrome: A palindrome is an ingenious succession of words such that, read from left to right or from right to left, the sound ...
... Ancient India, Banaras, 1951. Dandekar, R.N., Vedic Bibliography (4 Vols.), Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona. Dasgupta, S.N., A History of Indian Philosophy (5 Vols.),. Cambridge University Press. Hastings. ]., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, (13 Vols.), New York. Hiriyanna, M., Outlines of Indian Philosophy, George Alien & Unwin, London. Jayaswal ...
... it. I was myself one of those who came under the spell of the Muse, although I had never before written a line of poetry. J.A. Chadwick (Arjava) was another and I can give many more instances. At Cambridge Chadwick had been a brilliant scholar of mathematical philosophy and had little interest in poetry. At the Ashram he blossomed into a fine poet and wrote some exquisite poems which were published ...
... resolve their quarrels and differences. This, in brief, was the background when Sri Aurobindo returned to India in 1893. Soon after he had settled down at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was approached by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande to contribute articles to the Indu Prakash, an English-Marathi weekly, which he was then editing from Bombay. Deshpande was aware of Sri Aurobindo's uncompromising views but ...
... ICS and had passed his preliminary examination in the same year as Sri Aurobindo, 1890. Sri Aurobindo had then secured a higher position than he in the examination. Thereafter both were scholars at Cambridge — Sri Aurobindo at King's College and Beachcroft at Clare College. Their paths must have met many times, particularly when they were taking the intermediate and final examinations for the ICS. Certainly ...
... should free oneself from the notions of proofs which are available in deductive or inductive sciences. "Just at that critical moment of my intellectual life, I got the opportunity to go to the Cambridge University for my doctorate. And I decided to work on the theme of the proofs of existence of God for my doctoral thesis. While I had just begun my work on this thesis, circumstances conspired to ...
... order to be able to do that man must rise above his present state of consciousness. He must rise from his mental consciousness to the Truth-Consciousness, to the Supermind. When I spoke in Cambridge in Friends' Hall in 1955, I said to the audience, 'Yours is an old seat of learning, and it has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday and others. I have ...
... the West is to be heard in the church. Though I am not conversant with the technique of European music, I found it possible to enter into the spirit of European music. At King's College chapel at Cambridge, I had occasion to hear organ-music while a minister was practising for his choir-service. Though the music was informal, it was for me an unforgettable experience. The beautiful vault of the chapel ...
... Savitri, through which he has sent forth his divine message to humanity. 4 Sri Aurobindo spent his impressionable years in England— Manchester, London, Cambridge—and he was thus ideally equipped to be the builder of the bridge of understanding between the people of the West and the East. Even so accomplished a writer as Sri Aurobindo, to whom English was like ...
... pay for months and months. I wonder how she managed. I paid her from my I. C. S. stipend. It was father's fault that I failed in the riding test. He did not send money and the riding lessons at Cambridge then were rather costly. The teacher was also careless; so long as he got his money he simply left me with the horse and I was not particular. I tried riding again at Baroda with Madhav Rao but ...
... Opus Posthumous, p. 100. 57. Cf. Browning: What does, what knows, what is; three souls, one man. (A Death in the Desert') Quiller-Couch makes this line the text of the first of his Cambridge Lectures on the Art of Reading. 58. Opus Posthumous, pp. 101,103. 59. Poetry, December 1959, p. 140. 60. Quoted from his 'Credo' in Kimon Friar's Introduction to ...
... Savitri IV Politics Not much need be said about Sri Aurobindo's politics. While an undergraduate at Cambridge, he was not only an active member of the Majlis but he also joined an Indian Secret Society, functioning from London, known as the 'Lotus and the Dagger'. On his return to India, he contributed a series of articles to the Indu Prakash ...
... : a man called Ferrar passed through Calcutta when the Page 232 Alipore trial was going on. Was he known to yon in England? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, he was my classmate at Cambridge, but he could not see me in the court when the trial was going on. All the accused were put into a cage lest they should jump out and murder the Judge! Ferrar was a barrister practising at Singapore ...
... expression". Then the topic turned to the question of fear of death with S. and N's example. How they cover their body for fear of catching cold etc. Sri Aurobindo told a story that at Cambridge they were discussing about physical development. Then one fellow in order to show his own courage began taking out his genji one after another and they found that there were about 10 or 12 on his ...
... quarrelling with everyone and who used to hate Brahmananda. His boast was that he killed Brahmananda!" (Note : In the Introduction by Sj. K. G. Deshpande, who was Sri Aurobindo 's contemporary at Cambridge arid later on joined Sri Aurobindo in 1898 in the Baroda State service, there are some corrections to be made. He was the editor of the English section of the Induprakash and it was he who persuaded ...
... energy by the Spirit; but, in order to be able to do that, man must rise above his present state of Consciousness; he must rise to the Supermind. In one of my lectures at the Friend's Hall at Cambridge,4 I said: " Yours is an old seat of learning. It has the distinction of giving to the world great discoverers like Newton and Faraday. I have come to tell you that here in King's College there ...
... Himalayas of his mind, the sheer infinitudes of his spirit? Born in Calcutta thirty-seven years earlier, his Odyssey ad covered many places, many climes: Darjeeling, Manchester, London, Cambridge, Baroda - and with the return to Calcutta in 1906, the wheel had come full circle. Chandernagore was almost a new start, or more appropriately, the beginning of another upward swing of the spiralling ...
... among the post-1926 arrivals was the young Englishman, J.A.Chadwick, who quickly tired of India's Groves of Academe, and strayed into and found a haven in Sri Aurobindo Ashram. His training in Cambridge had been in mathematical philosophy, but he now sought the Truth that beyonded all formal and conceptual knowledge. Under the spiritual name of "Arjavananda" (the joy of straightforwardness), given ...
... and mature. Or the conversation skirted casually around Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips, Robert Bridges, Oscar Wilde, Manomohan Ghose, Bharati Sarabhai, the Hexameter, and the clue to it that a Cambridge friend, Ferrar, gave. Was Blake greater than Shakespeare? After Milton, what was the scope for the epic as a literary form? Of Hopkins, Sri Aurobindo said that he "becomes a great poet in his sonnets ...
... birth of Mother in Paris, 62 boulevard Haussmann. 1879 Departure of Sri Aurobindo for England. 1886-97 Mother lives at 3 square du Roule. 1890 Sri Aurobindo at King’s College, Cambridge. Mother’s first experience: the “Revolution of Atoms.” 1893 Sri Aurobindo returns to India. First revolutionary article. 1897 October 13, Mother’s marriage to Henri Morisset. Atelier ...
... my stories were occult." 1. David Rassendren. Some stories were found later, many of them incomplete, and have been published. Page 191 One of his main occupations at Cambridge was writing English poetry to' which he had devoted much of his time the last two years he was at St. Paul's School. Sri Aurobindo's lifelong poetical career, let us recollect, began in Manchester ...
... the governing principle in all things, is really correct, must we not say that they not only may but ought to possess all three? Wilson —Evidently we must. Treneth —That is as plain as a Cambridge laundress. Keshav —And it is clear that all qualities may, with diligence, be entirely divested of colour, form and perfume, and when they have reached the stage of wanting every single element ...
... the opportunity to state fully my opinion on the matter. The course suggested by the teachers to meet the difficulties of the case is of course quite impracticable. Mr Nag is a graduate of the Cambridge University and has spent many years in Europe at great expense in order to acquire higher qualifications and a wider culture and experience, and to expect that he would be willing or ought to be asked ...
... commenced before the Alipore Magistrate's Court on the 19th May, 1908 and continued intermittently for a Page 84 whole year. Mr. Beachcroft, the magistrate, had been with Sri Aurobindo in Cambridge.... The case in due course went up to the Sessions Court and the trial commenced there in October 1908. [ Sri Aurobindo indicated that the last sentence should be placed before "Mr. Beachcroft" ...
... Incomplete Life Sketch in Outline Form, c. 1922 Born 1872. Sent to England for education 1879. Studied at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge. Returned to India. February, 1893. Life of preparation at Baroda 1893-1906 Political life—1902-1910 [The "Swadeshi" movement prepared from 1902-5 and started definitely by Sri Aurobindo ...
... assisted him in his work. Manmohan went into lodgings. This was the time of the greatest suffering and poverty. Subsequently Aurobindo also went separately into lodgings until he took up residence at Cambridge. Aurobindo now turned the full fury of his attention to classical studies ... Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at Saint Paul's; but even at St Paul's in ...
... activity of Sri Aurobindo began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These [nine] 2 articles written at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently denounced the then congress policy of pray, petition and protest and called for a dynamic leadership based upon self-help and fearlessness ...
... 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890. 1885,Dec -First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. 1886,Aug. 16 -Sri Ramakrishna passes away. 1892,August - Sri Aurobindo ...
... such serious powers of original thought and appreciation as literature and history; yet it is the invariable experience of the most brilliant mathematical students who go from Calcutta or Bombay to Cambridge that after the first year they have exhausted all they have already learned and have to enter on entirely new and unfamiliar result. It is surely a deplorable thing that it should be impossible to ...
... bear on Western culture. One young woman in Delhi was working on (heaven help us!) Sylvia Plath, and I heard from my friend Santosh Pal of another whose marriage had broken up after her return from Cambridge (England) where she had been working on a thesis on Dr. Johnson! So, if our Academy comes to pass-only perhaps 50 full time students each year - we would want always to have an Indian philosopher ...
... instance you pillory in some detail is not by an English-writing Indian. The translation of Baudelaire's Correspondances is by a pukka Englishman, a brilliant professor from Trinity College, Cambridge, John A. Chadwick, who got the name "Arjavananda" in the Ashram, There is no question of his suffering from any insensitiveness to the English language and its word-associations. Evidently he had ...
... century it seems to have suddenly become widespread. "In North Africa, Tertullian, writing ca. * All the defamations are detailed in W. D. Davies, The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount (Cambridge: the University Press, 1966), pp. 278-9, 282. Page 217 AD 197, mentions among the charges against Jesus (of Jewish origin) the defamation that he was the son of a prostitute ...
... from the generalities, sedate or high-pitched, that we often encounter in the dramatic language of his contemporaries — even contemporaries who have something or other Shakespearean about them. The Cambridge History of English Literature says: "In the mechanical elements of poetic rhythm, Massinger comes very near to Shake-speare; but, when we look deeper, and come to the consideration of those features ...
... mentions thought itself: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. This phrase relating to the face of Newton in the statue of him by Roubiliac at Cambridge — the statue bearing the inscription "New-ton qui genus humanum ingenio superavit" ("Newton who ex-ceeded the human race in genius") — is Phanopoeia of an extremely high order. The metaphor of "seas" ...
... phrase "hot digestion". Then there is the word "business" with its prosaic commercial associations. Stephen Phillips, a poet with whom Sri Aurobindo had some acquaintance in his college days at Cambridge because Sri Aurobindo's brother Manmohan and Phillips were great chums, brings it in when he talks of the underworld, Hades, during Christ's alleged brief visit to that place of shadows and tortures: ...
... Il on, next to his Savitri, is the greatest poetic work he has achieved. The Mother, born in Paris, steeped in French culture, has also a strain of Hellas, for, when someone in Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge days compared London to ancient Athens, the young Indian student of history as well as of literature and languages remonstrated that it could be compared only to Corinth of antiquity whereas the ...
... Sri Aurobindo sees in him a subtle sight such as cannot be traced in his encyclopaedic contemporary Aristotle. Sri Aurobindo read the Republic and the Symposium in the original when he was at Cambridge, he also went on to imitate the Platonic dialogue-form in a remarkable work, fairly long yet unfinished, of his late teens, The Harmony of Virtue; and a deep sense of the value of both the Platonic ...
... stand-ing as an additional ingredient of the post-Rousseau mentality. Wordsworth himself, in a passage of his : Prelude recollecting "the golden store of books" devoured during holidays from Cambridge, has indicated that trend as part of his own being: The tales that charm away the wakeful night In Araby, romances; legends penned For solace by dim light of monkish lamps; Fictions ...
... fluent in English, but unable to speak his mother tongue. Taken to England when he was seven, he received there a European education and had almost no contact with Indian culture. While studying at Cambridge in his last two years in England, however, he began to learn Bengali and Sanskrit as a candidate for the Indian Civil Service. After his return to India, he continued his study of these languages ...
... in the eighties of the last century. But the blending of the rich with the graceful and shapely is an effect of the Greek and Latin Muse, in fervent dedication to whom the young Indian lived at Cambridge. Echoes and immaturities are not absent, but the inspired individual note is often struck. Thus The Lover's Complaint, which has the same subject as Virgil's Eighth Eclogue and treats of Damon's ...
... first came to him in the guise of an education outside his own country. Born in 1889, he spent hardly fourteen years in India before Harrow claimed him. Schooled there, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and got his M. A. and afterwards became Bar-at-Law of the Inner Temple. He got steeped in Westernism, especially the scientific humanitarian spirit of the modern West. His manners are Western ...
... deeply poignant religious conviction of an early Sonneteer: All love is lost except on God alone. Wordsworth's greatest moment is that unfathomable phrase about Newton's bust at Cambridge with its silent face that is the marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. John Chadwick, "Arjava" to the inmates of Sri Aurobindo's Ashram ...
... Aurobindo’s voice and any other impressions you remember of him? Sri Aurobindo’s voice had a beautiful, well-modulated sound. If you did not see him you would think that you were listening to a Cambridge-educated Englishman speaking. Sri Aurobindo just sat there looking as though he were gazing out into eternity in his great lonely days of descent into mortal life in order to help humanity. [Udar ...
... day and whose fulfilment is yet to come glowed in his eyes — and what else ever is it to be young? But we must emphasise that Nehru, no matter how westernised by his education at Harrow and Cambridge, was an Indian; and his having been seventy-four years young was a realisation, in his own individuality's terms, of the Indian way of youth. The happy audacity we have spoken of is not essentially ...
... hailing from India, was educated in England from his seventh to his twenty-first year — at the start privately in Manchester, later at St. Paul's School in London and finally at King's College, Cambridge. He became not only a master of English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar with French and knew Italian and German sufficiently to read The Divine Comedy ...
... Page 284 In Sethna's view, Wordsworth achieves phanopoeia of an extremely high order in the phrase he uses to describe the face of Newton in the statue of him at Cambridge: The marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. And he adds praising the image employed here: "The metaphor of 'seas' is too open ...
... so striking as to appear indisputable,” (LD 836) wrote Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950) in The Life Divine , the first and major formulation of his evolutionary vision. Trained as a classical scholar at Cambridge, he also acquired an encompassing command of the rich literature of India in her various languages, and penetrated ever deeper in her ancient scriptures as he advanced in his own spiritual experience ...
... to him], a native child of the head-hunting Jivaro, destined otherwise for a life spent loping through the jungle, would learn to speak perfect English, and would upon graduation from Oxford or Cambridge have the double advantage of a modern intellectual worldview and a commercially valuable ethnic heritage … From this it follows, Wallace argued, that characteristic human abilities must be latent ...
... there is hardly a cosmological theory in science fiction that is not backed up by theoretical physics, or made acceptable by the addition of a number of dimensions or universes. Moreover, the “Cambridge Group” consisting of Hoyle, Bondi and Gold, presented as late as 1993 a revamped steady-state model which posited that there has been a succession of “little big bangs” like the one that created our ...
... sea-change in five years or less. Our Final Century? Another voice in the debate is that of a distinguished scientist, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal since 1995 and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, since 2004. He has published a book with the ominous title Our Final Century: Will Civilization Survive the Twenty-First Century? “The theme of this book is that humanity is more at risk than at ...
... Ron Rosenbaum, op. cit., pp. xiv, xxxvi. 923 Walter Langer, op. cit., pp. 159, 33. 924 Ian Kershaw, op. cit., p. 103. 925 Ron Rosenbaum, op. cit., p. 92. 926 Stephen Turner (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Weber, p. 94. 927 Nirodbaran: Talks with Sri Aurobindo, p. 84. 928 Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, pp. 707-08. 929 Id., p. 33. 930 Id., pp. 42, 185, 612. 931 Sri ...
... Hitler (1977 ed.) Toye, Hugh: The Springing Tiger Subhash Chandra Bose Trevor-Roper, H.R.: The Last Days of Hitler Tuchman, Barbara: The Proud Tower Turner, Stephen (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Weber Ulbricht, Justus: Die Rückkehr der Mystiker im Verlagsprogramm von E. Diederichs, in Mystique, mysticisme, etc. Voltaire: Philosophical Dictionary von Schnurbein, ...
... achievements. Most of them spoke about his revolutionary zeal; a few about his deep erudition; some about his academic attainments, blaring flamboyantly that he stood first in Latin and Greek in Cambridge; some others dilated on his great sacrifice, courting prison and braving the hangman's noose (one of them quoted Kazi Nazrul Islam's famous poem "phansir manche geye gechejarajibanerjoygan" — those ...
... modern literature of the regional languages was still in its infancy (except in Bengal) and the literary production in English was of poor quality. Far away now were the lush cultural pastures of Cambridge and London, where Aurobindo’s eldest brother, the poet Manmohan, had befriended Laurence Binyon, Stephen Philips and Oscar Wide, the last calling him ‘an Indian panther in evening brown.’ Small wonder ...
... opening to the higher, invisible worlds. Another Ashram poet was the Englishman John A. Chadwick, ‘stiff but polite,’ whom Sri Aurobindo named Arjava. He was a philosopher of mathematics from Cambridge University, where he had been ‘a distinguished Don as well as a Fellow of Trinity College.’ He had discovered Rosicrucianism and, through Krishnaprem, also Sri Aurobindo, in whom he had found his ...
... given the work of teaching French for six hours in the week. In this year the first collection of his poems Songs to Myrtilla was published for private circulation. Most of the poems written at Cambridge by Sri Aurobindo were published at Baroda in 1895 in his book Songs to Myrtilla. The Life of Sri Aurobindo. A. B. Purani MYRTILLA: Here the name of a girl. But usually it denotes the Goddess ...
... Save for the jar of the girl-friend's name as compared to the dulcet appellations on Catullus's lips, what could be more in his vein than those lines in "Night by the Sea", a poem of Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge days? - With thy kisses chase this gloom: - Thoughts, the children of the tomb. Kiss me, Edith. Soon the night Comes and hides the happy light.... Love's sweet debts are ...
... though tiny-seeming act of grace - may be quoted in extenso tor its remarks on a very promising young Englishman (soon to get killed in World War II) whose letter and picture had been sent from Cambridge by my younger brother, as well as for its sidelight on the Ashram at the rime and the slowly developing Savitri, instalments of which Sri Aurobindo had been sending me privately when I had been ...
... would not like to dwell long on the early period; I want to come as soon as possible to the period when I was an eye-witness. But these are very interesting sidelights at any rate. At Cambridge, his tutor took upon himself, coming to know of the strained circumstances of his pupil, to write to the father in a somewhat cold tone, that the son was running the danger of being hauled to the ...
... the deeply poignant religious conviction of an early Sonneteer: All love is lost except on God alone. Wordsworth's greatest moment is that unfathomable phrase about Newton's bust at Cambridge with its silent face that is the marble index of a mind for ever Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone. John Chadwick, "Arjava" to the inmates of Sri Aurobindo's Ashram ...
... 623. 238. The Gospel of St. Luke (Harmondsworth: The Pelican New Testament Commentaries, Penguin Books, 1975), p. 252. 239. The New English Bible Companion to the Gospels (Oxford-Cambridge: 1972), p. 295. Page 235 240. The Anastasis... , p. 55. 241. The Archaeology of Palestine (Harmondsworth: A Pelican Book, 1961), pp. 240-41. 242. Ibid., p. 166 ...
... is that Paul expected the Thessalonians to be in the body when Christ came and that the coming of Christ * The text used everywhere in this article is the one originally published from Cambridge in 1899 as The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, according to the received Greek text together with the English Authorised Version (Photographic Reprint, 1922). Page 81 ...
... Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta on August 15, 1872. At the age of seven he was taken to England for his education. There, he studied at St. Paul's School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Returning to India in 1893, he worked for the next thirteen years in the Princely State of Baroda in the service of the Maharaja and as a professor in the state's college. In 1906, Sri Aurobindo ...
... family. In September 1884 Auro was admitted to St Paul's School in London and had his education there until July 1890. Later in the same year, in October, he joined King's College at Cambridge. Never during the entire period did young Sri Aurobindo come in contact with the traditional Indian life or culture. At the same time in England he "never was taught English as a separate ...
... duḥkhaḥ panthas ca bhāmini/ vratopavāsa-kṣāmd ca kathaṃ padbhyāṃ gamiṣyasi// 72 69 Savitri , p. 708. 70 Harry Levin, "Thematics and Criticism", Grounds for Comparision, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, p. 109. 71 The Harmony of Virtue , SABCL, Vol. 3, p. 154. 72 The Mahabharata, 3.280.20. Page 456 You have not gone to the forest earlier, O spirited ...
... But the concept is of curious interest in view of the "Integral Yoga" propounded by modern India's greatest spiritual figure, Sri Aurobindo who, by the way, was educated at Milton's own University, Cambridge, and has written, among other things, the sole full-blown epic that, after Paradise host's 10,565 lines, has seen the light in English: Savitri, A Legend and a Symbol, whose lines add up to 23 ...
... of Mohenjodāro", Expedition 3. 3."The Myth of Aryan Invasion", Frontiers of the Indus Civilization, edited with an Introduction by B.B. Lal, pp. 437-43. 4. The Indus Civilization (Cambridge University Press, 1968), p. 131. Page 185 earlier dating than 1500 B.C. for the end of the Indus civilization, proposed on the basis of new C-14 tests, Wheeler 5 opts for a p ...
... Mother 12 November 1937 Mother, I have received a letter from my brother H. He writes among other things: “There is too much intellectualism in Cambridge. Men worship the intellect as if it were a deity; and there is too much desire in everyone to be as busy as possible, without stopping to reflect on what the whole business is about. For the moment ...
... written that Jyoti was constantly shocked that people should lie, "But while we all agree that we all lie she seems to think that she is incapable of lying!") Lies? Well, A Punjabi student at Cambridge once took our breath away by the frankness and comprehensive profundity of his affirmation: "Liars! But we are all liars!" It appeared that he had intended to say "Lawyers," but his pronunciation ...
... Odyssey, text and translation by A. T. Murray, Loeb Library. 3 Murray, G., Five stages of Greek Religion, Oxford, I930. 4 Harrison, G. E., Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge, 1922. 5 Vide., Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, Rutledge, London,1996, p. 43. 6 There appears to be a long period intervening between the Vedic Samhitas and the Upanishads ...
... with English translation, notes and Index, by Swami Madhavananda (Calcutta: Advaita Ashrama, 1974). Suggestions for further reading Dasgupta, S. N. History of Indian Philosophy. Cambridge, 1957. Mahadevan, T. M. P. Invitation to Indian Philosophy. Arnold & Heinemann Publishers (India), 1974. Radhakrishnan S. Indian Philosophy. London: Alien & Unwin. Vivekachudamani ...
... decide. Everywhere Mount Everest seems to face Mount Everest." 1 Sri Aurobindo has been a poet even from his early teens. The earliest pieces of his poetry were probably written when he was in Cambridge in the late '80s of the last century; and the last lines of poetry - additions to his epic poem Savitri - he dictated to his scribe only a few days before he passed away in 1950. That is to say ...
... without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated NorthWest Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India." A young man educated in Cambridge, Rahmat Ali, took up this idea. His conception was that since 712 AD, the four States mentioned above were the natural home of the Muslims since they were in a majority in those areas. To him the ...
... the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India." This idea was taken up by a young man educated in Cambridge, Rahmat Ali. His conception was that since 712 AD, the four States mentioned above were the natural home of the Muslims since they were in a majority in those areas. To him the Hindu-Muslim conflict ...
... letters, forces are his words... 168 Near, it retreated; far, it called him still... 169 The appreciative comment that Lytton Strachey made in his Leslie Stephen lecture at Cambridge on Pope's neatly balanced single lines with their contrasted pairs of nearly antithetical words also fits lines like the above. 'Earth' and 'heaven, 'Pain...lash' and 'joy...bribe', and similar ...
... literature and science, our work and our future, all this came within our purview. Our discussions sometimes grew so loud and hot that Judge Beachcroft – he had been contemporaneous with Sri Aurobindo at Cambridge – would shout at us like a schoolmaster, "Less noise there, less noise there!" If that did not stop all the noise, then he had to make this threat, "Unless you stop, your tiffin will stop." That was ...
... and then, I used to write Greek and Latin verse my teachers used to lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of my laziness. When I went for scholarship at King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning remarked that he had not seen such remarkable papers before. So, you see, in spite of all laziness I was not deteriorating. Disciple : Was there a prejudice against Indians ...
... the amount of the college dues and a lecture on my extravagance. It pained me to a certain extent, as we were living on such a meagre sum. Manmohan was extravagant, if you like. When I went to Cambridge, I was introduced to a tailor who made suits for me on credit. When I returned to London, he traced me there and got introduced to Manmohan also. Manmohan got a red velvet suit made—not staring red ...
... when now and then I wrote Greek and Latin verse my teachers would lament that I was not utilising my remarkable gifts because of laziness. When I went up with a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, Oscar Browning commented that he had not seen such remarkable papers. As you see, in spite of my laziness I was not deteriorating! DR. BECHARLAL: Was there any prejudice against Indians at that ...
... Theosophists as "woolly-headed people." SATYENDRA: The Rosicrucians too believe in the reality of mystic experiences. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, Arjava (John Chadwick) belonged to one of their groups at Cambridge, and this created a lot of difficulty for him at the beginning of his sadhana here. The Rosicrucians posit two principles in man—good and evil personas. The evil person has to be raised up in order ...
... Deshpande. Dutt was travelling with an Englishman, an I.C.S. man probably, and just before Baroda station the Englishman asked, "Do you know where Ghose is now?" "Which Ghose?" "That Classical scholar of Cambridge who has come away to India to waste his future." "Dutt told him that you were at Baroda. When the train stopped there, Hesh saw Dutt and shouted to him: "Dutt do you know Ghose?" Then he introduced ...
... Both Purani and Nirod record a conversation with Sri Aurobindo on 3 January Page 638 1939 when the discussion was on the hexameter. Sri Aurobindo mentioned that it was one of his Cambridge contemporaries, H.N. Ferrar, who had first given the clue to the hexameter in English by reading out a line from Arthur Hugh Clough - perhaps the line: "He like a god came leaving his ample Olympian ...
... there and so was Pavitra, formerly P.B. St.-Hilaire, who had seen service as a Captain of the French Army during the world war. Another arrival was the young Englishman J. A. Chadwick, a brilliant Cambridge mathematical philosopher who had come to India, ostensibly to take up a professorship in a university, but really to seek the Truth beyond both mathematics and philosophy. In Sri Aurobindo he found ...
... Baroda, 37; songs to Myrtilla, 38ff, 71; on Parnell, 42; on Goethe, 42; at Apollo Bunder, 46, 64, 281, 385; at Naini Tal, 47, 66; learning Bengali & Sanskrit, 50; as Professor, 52ff; on Oxford & Cambridge, 52,53; on the "cultured Bengali", 55; A. B. dark, on, 55; 'New Lamps for Old', 56ff, 184, 190, 281; on Bankim, 57ff, 281; on Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, 60; beginnings of revolutionary activity, 62ff ...
... began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These nine articles written Page 248 at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo’s Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently denounced the then Congress policy of pray, petition and protest and called for a dynamic leadership based upon self-help and fearlessness ...
... nationalist group). Sri Aurobindo . I knew that he would. He has nothing very deep in him, only a gift of speech and sometimes he tries to show himself more intelligent than he is. He was with me at Cambridge and I have heard him speak at the College Union. He repeated during one speech three times : "The Egyptians rose up to a man"! Disciple : In Nagpur they have granted Rs. 2/- per annum for ...
... may call for a romantic or poetic approach to the problem, for not otherwise will the translator be able to wrest the intended old meaning and present it in a new guise. II In his Cambridge days and immediately afterwards, Sri Aurobindo often experimented in literary translation and turned passages or pieces from Latin or Greek into English. Hecuba from the Greek was liked by Laurence ...
... Banerji were also with him." Just before the train's halt at the Baroda station the Englishman asked C. Dutt, "Do you know where Ghosh is now?" "Which Ghosh?" "That Classical scholar of Cambridge who has come away to India to waste his future." "He is at Baroda," replied Dutt. When the train stopped Hesh saw Dutt and shouted to him, "Dutt, do you know Ghosh?" All that was narrated ...
... puppets of the earth.... Page 143 Dr. Walker was once again proved right in his student. Aravinda Ackroyd Ghose secured many prizes, and won an open scholarship to King's College, Cambridge. We shall be coming to that. However, we must also know the conditions in which the three brothers lived in England during these years. And, er, I was forgetting to mention the sweet secret Purani ...
... but remember this letter if you do. I tell you what Oscar Browning the great son of the great father said to him when he was at tea with one of the dons of his College. (He is at King's College, Cambridge, now, borne there by his own Page 163 ability.)" We shall present Ara's letter to his father a few chapters hence. Dr. K. D. continued his impassioned plea. "My dear brother ...
... n in Manchester (courtesy Smt, Lahori Chatterjee) 135 A street in central London late last century 146 A lake in the Lake District early this century 186 King's College , Cambridge, late last century 234 The Thames, London, late last century 37, 169, 203, 220, 237 Drawings by Sujata Achevé d'imprimer sur les presses de ...
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