Chatterji Chattopadhyay Bankim Chandra : (1838-94) Sri Aurobindo called him “the Rishi of modern Bengal”. [1] Buckland: (a) Chatterji, Bankim Chandra: Bengali novelist & prose writer: son of Jādab Chandra Chatterji, a Deputy Magistrate: born June 27, 1838: educated at the Midnapur School, Hughli & Presidency Colleges: in 1858 he was the first native of India to take the B.A. degree, Calcutta: at once appointed to be a Deputy Magistrate, & became a prominent member of the Provincial service, acting for a time as Assistant Secretary to the Bengal Govt. His reputation was made in literature, as the Bengali novelist of his time: his novels were numerous, & are said to be still [1905] popular: he brought out a literary magazine, 1872, & wrote the first Bengali historical novel, under the title of Durgesh Nandini. This was followed by Kapāla Kundalā, Mrinālini, & Bisha Briksha, which was translated into English & very favourably criticised by Professor Darmesteter: Debi Chaudhurani, Ananda Matha, & Krishna Kanter Will: wrote also on Hindu religion, Krishna, the Vedas, & Hindu literature: made Rai Bahadur & C.I.E.: retired from Government service in 1891: died April 8, 1894. (b) Darmesteter, James: (1849-94): born in Alsace of a poor Jewish family: delicate, puny, & almost deformed: educated at the Lycèe Condorcet, Paris: Doctor in Letter, 1877: devoted himself to Oriental scholarship & literature: became the greatest authority on Zoroastrian literature; appointed Assistant Professor of Zend Avesta at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, 1877, & Director 1892: Secretary of the Socièté Asiatique 1885: travelled in India to study subjects locally, residing there Feb.1886-Feb.1887, chiefly at Bombay, Peshāwar & Hazarā: wrote Lettres sur l’Inde, 1888: was an editor of the Revue Critique, & later of the Revue de Paris: wrote in them, & in the Journal des Débats, critical notices of books & Oriental essays. [Buckland] [2] Internet on Mukherji Satish: Bankim Chandra was not only one of the first in India to write on Comte & his philosophy but also had zealous Positivist friends like Yogendra Ghose & Raj Krishna Mukherjee; in 1874, Bankim published the latter’s article on Positivism in his Baṇga darshan, which began with the sentence, “Among the successfully educated classes of our country, there is a great deal of animation concerning the philosophy of Comte.” While writing on psychological purification, Bankim wrote: “He who has been psychologically purified is the best Hindu, the best Christian, the best Buddhist, the best Muslim, the best Positivist.” In 1884, in the preface of his novel Devi Chaudhurani, Bankim quoted from the Catechism of Positive Religion: “The general law of Man’s progress…consists in this that Man becomes more & more religious.”
... "devotees were to receive initiation both spiritually and politically for the delivrance of India from foreign rule. The scheme undoubtedly owed its origin to Anandamath of Bankim Chandra Chatterji." It was in 1872 that Bankim Chandra started his monthly journal Bangadarshan and, again, it was in 1872 that he started writing Anandamath beginning with the 'Bande Mataram' mantra. But it was only during... entire length of 1,312 kilometres to be a highly earthquake-prone zone, which one day may split India into two. The basic idea of the Bhawani Mandir was in all likelihood derived from Bankim Chandra Chatterji's revolutionary novel, Anandamath. 1 Its central theme was actually based on a revolt of North Indian Sannyasins against the British rule. These Sannyasins were here, there and everywhere... with mighty power, being a sacred mantra, revealed to us by the author of Ananda Math, who might be called an inspired Rishi. He described the manner in which the mantra had been revealed to Bankim Chandra, probably by a Sannyasi under whose teaching he was. He said that the mantra was not an invention, but a revivification of the old mantra which had become extinct, so to speak, by the treachery ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Saraswati with the Lotus ( Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Obiit 1894 ) Thy tears fall fast, O mother, on its bloom, O white-armed mother, like honey fall thy tears; Yet even their sweetness can no more relume The golden light, the fragrance heaven rears ...
... G. Ranade, a judge of the Bombay High Court, was also an erudite scholar, and a reformist. Sri Aurobindo continued ruefully: "I did not then know Page 37 Bankim Chandra Chatterji Page 38 that this was only a prelude to the distant future and that God Himself would one day keep me in jail for one year to make me see the cruelty and futility of the... tens of thousands of jail inmates rotting in 'free' India. Four months after the last piece of New Lamps for Old appeared in the Indu Prakash, a new series of articles was begun on Bankim Chandra Chatterji 'by a Bengali' who signed himself 'Zero' (and not: Max Theon, the supreme God!). From criticizing the Congress to Bankim the novelist! Those unacquainted with our young A. Ghose may be... other. True, A. Ghose was profoundly interested in literature, as he said himself. But if that was all, good writers abounded. So why Bankim? Well, that's a question from those who do not know Bankim Chandra. As our A. Ghose had a very methodical mind, he at once realized that Bankim was a nationalist who despised the way the Congress worked: "All its agitations seem to have an ephemeral look and lack ...
... England and Baroda (1883-1898) England and Baroda (1883-1898) Songs to Myrtilla Collected Poems Bankim Chandra Chatterji How hast thou lost, O month of honey and flowers, The voice that was thy soul! Creative showers, The cuckoo's daylong cry and moan of bees, Zephyrs and streams and softly-blossoming trees And murmuring laughter and heart-easing ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings His Youth and College Life 16-July-1894 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, the creator and king of Bengali prose, was a high-caste Brahman and the son of a distinguished official in Lower Bengal. Born at Kantalpara on the 27th June 1838, dead at Calcutta on the 8th April 1894, ...
... Review (courtesy Patrice Marot) 23 , 54, 214 , 425, 475, 557 12 Krishna Dhan Ghose, from Sukumar Mitra's article on Sri Aurobindo in Basumati, Phalgun 1358 38 Bankim Chandra Chatterji 59 Sarojini Ghose (courtesy Sri Lab Kumar Bose and the late Sri Nirmal Ranjan Mitra) 66 Sri Aurobindo at Deoghar, c.1894 (detail from a group photograph, courtesy Smt. Lahori ...
... "thoughts" are jottings from the notebook that Sri Aurobindo used at Cambridge for writing The Harmony of Virtue and other pieces. PART TWO: ON LITERATURE (BARODA 1893-1906) Bankim Chandra Chatterji This series of essays was published in seven instalments in as many issues of the Indu Prakash , a weekly Marathi-English newspaper of Bombay: 16 July 1894, 23 July 1894, 30 July 1894... than half the pieces in the present volume were published in one form or another during Sri Aurobindo's lifetime. The following pieces first appeared in periodicals or, in one case, a book: Bankim Chandra Chatterji , "The Age of Kalidasa", "The Seasons", "Address at the Baroda College Social Gathering", The Brain of India , A System of National Education , A Preface on National Education , The... by the Arya Publishing House in 1940 and 1947, and by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1955 and subsequently. Sri Aurobindo saw the proofs of the 1940 edition and made some revisions. Bankim Chandra Chatterji was first published in book-form by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1954. Some of the material on the Mahabharata was first published in book-form in Vyasa and Valmiki by the Sri Aurobindo ...
... My correspondent asks me to say something also about the term "rishi" and decide if it can be applied to Tagore. Well, Sri Aurobindo has explained its root meaning and applied it to Bankim Chandra Chatterji for his discovery of the mantra of India's renascence in the song Bande Mataram, that cry of obeisance to the divine Mother Spirit which is felt behind India's idealistic and soul-questing... can be described as the rishi of the plane of the Life Force. I myself, however, prefer to give a mystical and spiritual tinge to the term, so that the profound Mother-worshipping fervour of Bankim Chandra Chatterji would make him a rishi in his national anthem while the emotional patriotism of Iqbal in his Hindustan Hamara would not. So too would I deem Tagore a rishi in his intensest ecstasy of utterance ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings His Official Career 30-July-1894 Thus equipped, thus trained Bankim began his human journey, began in the radiance of joy and strength and genius the life which was to close in suffering and mortal pain. The drudgery of existence met him in the doorway, when his youth was still ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings His Versatility 06-August-1894 Whenever a literary man gives proof of a high capacity in action people always talk about it as if a miracle had happened. The vulgar theory is that worldly abilities are inconsistent with the poetic genius. Like most vulgar theories it is a ...
... patriotism that Bharati preached; it is not the geographical entity that he sang about, but India the mother of us all, the sustainer, the saviour. Vande Mataram was the 'mantra' that Rishi Bankim Chandra had given to a weak enslaved people to enable them to wake up and achieve their salvation. Bharati took up the mantric cry and made it resound everywhere in Tamil Nadu. Weaklings became patriots... language and continent, and have become the universal possession of mankind.' Shrimati Sarojini Naidu Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Fewpresent-generation Indians would have even heard of Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, who was a pioneer among women participants in the Indian Freedom Movement. Braving a succession of domestic disasters - loss of parents, widowhood... Having finished high school in Mangalore, Kamaladevi joined Queen Mary's College in Madras, where she developed a friendship with Suhasini Chattopadhyay, Sarojini Naidu's younger sister who was also studying there. The Chattopadhyays, a celebrated family of Calcutta, set up an establishment in Madras for Suhasini's education. More members of the family, including Suhasini's elder brother ...
... bellyful of wedded licence without the least tarnishing of his halo! I don't know what exactly to say about the term "rishi". Sri Aurobindo has explained its root-meaning and applied it to Bankim Chandra Chatterji for his discovery of the mantra of India's renascence in "Bande Mataram" ("I bow to you, O Mother!"). In its highest connotation, "rishi" means one who brings about the creative expression... can be described as the rishi of the plane of the Life-Force. I myself, however, prefer to give a mystical and spiritual tinge to the term - so that the profound Mother-worshipping fervour of Bankim Chandra would make him a rishi in his vivid and visionary national anthem while the emotional patriotism of Iqbal in his richly imaginative "Hindustan Hamara" wouldn't. So too would I deem Tagore a rishi ...
... ' There was another remarkable series of articles that Sri Aurobindo wrote for the Indu Prakash. These were occasioned by the death of Bankim Chandra Chatterji and appeared between July 16 and August 27, 1894. Each of the seven articles on Bankim Chandra is brilliantly written and worth quoting in detail, but I will have to content myself by giving you only a few examples. Commenting on the v... these pioneers and he was followed by many other great men such as Dwarkanath Tagore, his son Debendranath, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Dayanand Saraswati, Sri Ramakrishna, Keshav Chandra Sen, Bankim Chandra Chatterji, Swami Vivekananda, Balgangadhar Tilak , Rabindranath Tagore, and others. The list is by no means exhaustive and I have given the names of only those who were Sri Aurobindo's precursors or... summed up: 'Scholar, poet, essayist, novelist, philosopher, lawyer, critic, official, philologian and religious innovator — the whole world seemed to be shut up in his single brain.' Of the student Bankim Chandra, Sri Aurobindo wrote: 'He ascended the school by leaps and bounds; so abnormal indeed was his swiftness that he put his masters in fear of him... and indeed his ease and quickness in study were ...
... to March 1894, contributes a series of articles, "New Lamps for Old," to the Indu Prakash. 1893,May 31 - Swami Vivekananda sails for America. 1894,April 8 -Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; ...
... (D.K.Roy & Indira Devi, Pilgrims of the Stars) 17. Sri Aurobindo's own experience in Alipore jail. 18. Harindranath Chattopadhyay (1897 -1990), a poet and cinema actor, brother of Mrinalini Chattopadhyay and Sarojini Naidu. Husband of Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay. 19. aksaravrtta: system of versification in which the number of letters and not the sounds is taken into account. 20... which she narrated in a booklet: Heart of a Gopi. She was a powerful 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... action, desire and passion. Tamas is the mode of ignorance and inertia, the force of inconscience. 47. Vaishnavas: devotees of Vishnu. 48. Thoughts and Glimpses. 49; Sarat Chandra Chatterji (15.9.1876 - 16.1.1938), the famous Bengali novelist and short story writer. 50. See Letters on Yoga, Cent. Ed., p. 770. 51. 4 Arts Annual 1935, printed and published by Haren Ghosh. ...
... double as late-fee! But he was also Page 539 struck with the English spoken by Sri Aurobindo —sorry, Jatin dranath Mitra, as was his assumed name for that journey. Bejoy's was Bankim Chandra Bhowmik. What was Sri Aurobindo's own impression about those interminable rides through the streets of Calcutta? "I had to apply for a passport under a false name," Sri Aurobindo said one... again, no Nagen! Amar, not having the ghost of a notion of Nagen's whereabouts, disembarked. The three 1. Nagendra Kumar Guharoy's Farewell to God (Devata-Biday), Arnaren-dranath Chattopadhyay's letter to Nagen in the same book , and Sukumar Mitra's Aurobindo Acroyd Ghose, an eight-part article in Masik Basumati Page 537 procured a closed carriage, put Sri Aurobindo inside ...
... SABCL; Collected Poems , Vol . 5 Translations , Vol . 8 4 . ANANDAMATH Basumati Sahitya Mandir, Calcutta (no date) A translation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Bengali novel. The prologue and the first thirteen chapters of Part I were translated by Sri Aurobindo, the rest by his brother Barindra. The parts translated by Sri Aurobindo first... Office, Pondicherry, 1922 First appeared in the Karmayogin between February 19 and March 5, 1910 (See 13). SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 6 . BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJI Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1954 First appeared in the Indu Prakash, Bombay between July 16 and August 27,1894, in seven instalments. SABCL:... Kalidasa; The Century of Life (the Nitishataka of Bhartrihari) ; etc. From Bengali: Songs of Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: 'opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Page 413 Volume 9 The Future ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings What He Did for Bengal 20-August-1894 I have kept so far to Bankim's achievement looked at purely as literature. I now come to speak of it in the historic sense, of its relations to the Bengali language and potency over the Bengali race. Of this it is not easy to suggest any ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings Our Hope in the Future 27-August-1894 But profound as have been its effects, this revolution is yet in its infancy. Visible on every side, in the waning influence of the Sadharan Brahmo Samaj, in the triumph of the Bengali language, in the return to Hinduism, in the pride of ...
... entitled 'New Lamps for Old' in which he criticizes the leaders of the Indian National Con- gress and their 'mendicant' policy. November 16 -Annie Besant comes to India. 1894, April 8 — Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July- August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Induprakash. 1897 - Sri Aurobindo begins to teach at the Baroda College, as a lecturer in French; ...
... inspired rishi. He described the manner in which the mantra had been revealed to Bankim Chandra, probably by a sannyasi under whose teaching he was. He said that the mantra was not an invention, but a revivification of the old mantra which became extinct so to speak by the treachery of one Navakisan. The mantra of Bankim Chandra was not appreciated in his own day and he predicted that there would come a ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings His Literary History 13-August-1894 Bankim's literary activity began for any serious purpose at Khulna, but he had already trifled with poetry in his student days. At that time the poet Iswara Chandra Gupta was publishing two papers, the Sangbad Prabhakar and the Sadhuranjan ...
... On Literature On Literature Bankim Chandra Chatterji Early Cultural Writings The Bengal He Lived In 23-July-1894 The society by which Bankim was formed, was the young Bengal of the fifties, the most extraordinary perhaps that India has yet seen,—a society electric with thought and loaded to the brim with passion. Bengal was at that time the theatre ...
... suffusing element has overflooded, has tended more and more to take up and subdue the original motives until the thought and spirit, turn and tinge are now characteristically Indian. The works of Bankim Chandra Chatterji and Tagore, the two minds of the most distinctive and original genius in our recent literature, illustrate the stages of this transition. Side by side with this movement and more characteristic ...
... Street. "The next day Sukumar gave two names 5 to Nagen and asked him to buy two second class tickets for Colombo. This 5. The names were Jatindra Nath Mitra, assumed by Sri Aurobindo, and Bankim Chandra Basak, assumed by Bejoy. Page 347 was done to put the police off the scent.... The tickets for Colombo were bought so that all inquiries would be directed, if at all, to Colombo... throw some light on Sri Aurobindo's departure from Calcutta and his arrival at Pondicherry: "Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal to make arrangements for his departure. Motilal wrote a letter to Amar Chatterji at Uttarpara in which he informed him of Sri Aurobindo's intended departure from Chandernagore in a boat on the 31st March and asked him to make an arrangement to change the boat at Dumurtala Ghat ...
... Whenever Ramaswami spoke about his tutor, he spoke with love and respect. Nolini Kanta Gupta gave him lessons in the Bengali language also. In the new house Ramaswami rendered into Tamil Bankim Chandra Chatterji’s short story “Jugal Anguria” and got it published in some periodical — I have forgotten the name, it might be Swadeshimitran . Iyengar’s handwriting looked like a string of tiny pearls. Bharati ...
... Bhagavad Gita, Kalidasa; The Century of Life (The Nitishataka of Bhartrihari); etc. From Bengali: Songs of Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Volume 9 — The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART... An Open Letter to My Countrymen; other essays, notes and comments from the Karmayogin; Speeches. Volume 3 — The Harmony of Virtue, EARLY CULTURAL WRITINGS: The Harmony of Virtue; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee; The Sources of Poetry and Other Essays; Valmiki and Vyasa; Kalidasa; The Brain of India; Essays from the Karmayogin; Art and Literature; Passing Thoughts; Conversations of ...
... the world of fiction, even as they are indebted to Rabindranath Tagore for ushering in a new era in poetic creation. Bankim Chandra's novels have been translated into all the languages of India, and inspired and influenced a whole generation of novelists. 92. Bankim Chandra Chatterji by Sri Aurobindo. Page 81 be the infusion of religious feeling into patriotic work. The religion of... same journal, Indu Prakash, a short sequence of critical appreciation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji, the renowned genius of Bengali letters and the author of the national anthem, Bande Mataram. 131. 'Ideals Face to Face', Bande Mataram (May 3,1908). Page 104 After completing the series on Bankim Chandra, Sri Aurobindo stopped contributing to the Indu Prakash. At this time,... Dutt, Ananda Math by Bankim Chandra, Goray Galad by Rabindranath Tagore, etc. Page 60 "Aurobindo read Bankim Chandra's novels by himself, and understood them quite well. He had an extraordinary regard for Bankim Chandra. He would say that Bankim Chandra was the golden bridge between our past and present. He wrote a beautiful English sonnet on Bankim Chandra as a tribute to his ...
... equal candidates for election posing us a most perplexing problem. Once we understand, first, the prerequisites of the ideal national anthem and, secondly, the living associations and potencies of Bankim Chandra's Bande Mataram on the one hand and Tagore's Jana Gana Mana on the other, there cannot remain the slightest doubt that nothing except Bande Mataram can be the creative cry and the sustaining... there are three sheaths or bodies - the gross or outer, the subtle or inner, the causal or higher. The first consists of the physical elements, the shape, the visible organic functioning. In Bankim Chandra's poem it is the rapid rivers and the glimmering orchards, the winds and the harvests waving, the moon-magical nights in forest and on riverside. A transition from the outer body of the Nation-Mother... at that time the political guru of Bengal. He realised at once the creative energy packed into this poem. With a gesture as of an ultimate world-secret found at last, he scattered the words of Bankim Chandra all over idealistic Bengal from whose "seventy million voices" that are rightly celebrated in the poem they spread to Gujarat and Maharashtra and beyond. In his own life he incarnated the presence ...
... become one again. I carry that immortal promise in my bosom everywhere. I have just one prayer to our Lord Sri Aurobindo: “O Lord, O God, make India one again, make India one again!” In Bankim Chandra’s Anandamath , Bhavananda expresses the author’s inmost feeling, the Indians’ inmost conviction. Bhavananda sings: Bande Mataram Sujalam suphalam malayajasheetalam Shasya shyamalam... Swami Vivekananda. Eighteen ninety-three turned into a memorable year as it witnessed two voyages in opposite directions by two sons of India out of their love for the country. We know that Bankim Chandra, Rabindranath, Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo looked upon their country as the Divine Mother. And that is why they have all unveiled the real face of India to the world. When Vivekananda returned ...
... probably towards the end of this period. Another adaptation of a poem by Chandidasa. Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Circa 1894–98. Certainly written after Bankim's death in 1894. The poem is entitled in the manuscript "Lines written after reading a novel of Bunkim Chundra Chatterji". Madhusudan Dutt. Circa 1893–98. To the Cuckoo . Circa 1893–98. Subtitled in... after his return to India. "The following poems certainly were written in Baroda after his return to India in 1893: "Lines on Ireland" (dated 1896), "Saraswati with the Lotus" and "Bankim Chandra Chatterji" (both written after the death of Bankim in 1894), and "To the Cuckoo" (originally subtitled" A Spring morning in India"). "Madhusudan Dutt" was probably also written in Baroda... This is a translation of a Greek epigram by Meleager (first century B.C.) Saraswati with the Lotus . 1894 or later. Written after the death of the Bengali novelist Bankim Chandra Chatterji (1838–94) Night by the Sea . Circa 1890–98. The Lover's Complaint. Circa 1890–98. Love in Sorrow . Circa 1890–98. The Island Grave . Circa 1890–98 ...
... any case, whatever may be said of the made-in-India type of second-hand English verse in which men of great literary gift in southern India too often waste their talent, Mr. Page 614 Chattopadhyay's production justifies itself by its beauty. This is not only genuine poetry, but the work of a young, though still unripe genius with an incalculable promise of greatness in it. As to the abundance... There have been poets of a great final achievement who have begun with gifts of a less precious stuff and had by labour within themselves and a difficult alchemy to turn them into pure gold. Mr. Chattopadhyay is not of these; he is rather overburdened with the favours of the goddess, comes like some Vedic Marut with golden weapons, golden ornaments, car of gold, throwing in front of him continual lightnings... sovereign excess, which continually attracts and stimulates the imagination, if it does not always quite take it captive. There is here perhaps a side effect of one remarkable peculiarity of Mr. Chattopadhyay's poetical mentality. There is a background in it of Hindu Vedantic thought and feeling which comes out especially in "Fire", "Dusk", "Messages" and other poems, but will be found repeatedly elsewhere ...
... office. He was at that time the editor. Evening had almost fallen. The magazine had gone to press. Just then a worker came out from the printing-room and informed Bankim Chandra: “Sir, we require some more matter.” Bankim Chandra did not know what to do as he had nothing more in hand worth publishing. He started rummaging through the drawer of unfinished, incomplete manuscripts. All of a sudden... rishis. And it is because they are divinely inspired that they can visualise these extraordinarily potent mantras. This is why the rishi is also called mantra-drashta or seer of mantras. Rishi Bankim Chandra was the mantra-drashta of Vande Mataram . The mantra incarnated itself in his meditation and was born out of his living experience. Sri Aurobindo writes: the… supreme service of Bankim... composition of Vande Mataram in 1875 and its subsequent publication, the song had still not awakened the Indian people in any considerable way. The littérateur Nabin Sen is said to have told Bankim Chandra: Look, how a good thing written unfortunately half in Sanskrit, half in Bengali, has been reduced to a pot-pourri and has come to naught. Like those songs of Gobindo Adhikari and his travelling ...
... Bombay. August 7 - March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps for Old, to the Induprakash. 1894 July 16 - August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji to the Induprakash. 1895 Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of poems. 1896 Probable year of publication of Urvasie, a narrative poem. ...
... Gita can only be understood, like any other great work of the kind, by studying it in its entirety and as a developing argument. But the modern interpreters, starting from the great writer Bankim Chandra Chatterji who first gave to the Gita this new sense of a Gospel of Duty, have laid an almost exclusive stress on the first three or four chapters and in those on the idea of equality, on the expression ...
... which it fought tooth and nail till it freed itself from their spell. This indigenous version of India's history had started coming to the surface in the works of Maharshi Dayananda, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, and some other stalwarts of the Hindu Renaissance during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. But it met a vehement Page 399 ...
... Bombay. August 7 — March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps/or Old, to the Indu Prakash. 1894 — July 16-August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji Page 812 to the Indu Prakash. 1895 — Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of Poems. 1896 — Probable year of publication of Urvasie ...
... and not in Bengal Page 219 only, but over the entire subcontinent. In Sri Aurobindo's series of seven articles in the Indu Prakash (16 July to 27 August 1894) on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, there was a casual reference to Ananda Math but no mention at all of the song, Bande Mataram. As a matter of fact, the song was very little known outside the circle of those who... - Swaraj, national education, Swadeshi and boycott, - Sri Aurobindo had expressed even in his "New Lamps for Old" articles (1893-4) his adhesion to the independence ideal, and in his "Bankim Chandra Chatterji" articles in the Indu Prakash (1894) his detestation of the system of education in India ("the very worst system of training"). Independence had to be wrested from the British, if... the opposition to the partition, and - by one of those unpredictable but amazing quirks of fate - had come to be symbolised by the magic incantation "Bande Mataram!", the opening words of Bankim Chandra's song imbedded in his novel Ananda Math. At one extreme end, it was as though nothing but immediate full-fledged independence could satisfy the people's pent-up hunger for freedom. At the ...
... Bande Mataram, "I bow to you, O Mother." This cry rang throughout the many decades of the country's toil for freedom and even now when superficial purposes have sought officially to replace Bankim Chandra's inspired anthem, replete with the very essence of Indianness, by the more deliberate more cosmopolitan Page 105 composition, Jana Gana Mana, the outleaping apostrophe to the... those eight years ran not only the occult insight of genuine patriotism but also the mystical vision of the aspiring Yogi. Sri Aurobindo brought to his work the full reality of the Being hailed by Bankim Chandra in Bande Mataram. The national soul felt by historical India is not merely the presiding genius of the human collectivity in the land bounded by the Himalayas and by rivers and seas. The dis... myriad knowers and arid lovers of God, must be herself a face and form of the Divine and wrapped in the atmosphere of the Supreme Being must she be envisaged and invoked. That was the message of Bankim Chandra's song and of Sri Aurobindo the politician, that was the core of the Aurobindonian Nationalism which made this song the throbbing life-blood of Bengal and, through Bengal, the entire sub-continent ...
... heroes under his inspiration. Many of his "boys" actually went to the gallows with smiling faces and the cry he had made India-wide of "Bande Mataram" - "I bow to You, O Mother" - with which Bankim Chandra Chatterji's famous patriotic song begins. Sri Aurobindo was never an armchair theorist, a doctrinaire politician. He was a dynamic figure who charted out in embryo most of the constructive policies Gandhi ...
... Writings "Shama'a" I was unable to greet duly the first appearance of this new magazine of art, literature and philosophy edited by Miss Mrinalini Chattopadhyay; I take the opportunity of the second number to repair the omission I had then unwillingly to make. The appearance of this quarterly is one of the signs as yet too few, but still carrying a sure... inadequate information of what we ourselves are doing in these matters. It is to be hoped that this magazine will be an effective agent in curing these deficiencies. It has begun well: the editor, Miss Chattopadhyay, has the needed gift of attracting contributions of the right kind and there is in "Shama'a" as a Page 623 result of her skill a pervading and harmonising atmosphere of great distinction... the terse and pregnant force that is supposed, and surely with justice, to be the essential quality of the poetic style of the Kurral: a dialogue in poetic prose, "The Vision", by Harindranath Chattopadhyay, in which we get imagination, beauty and colour of phrase and a moving sentiment,—but not yet, I think, all the originality and sureness of touch of the poet when he uses his own already mastered ...
... The god himself of the enchanting flute, The god himself took up thy pen and wrote. 16 As for Bankim, there are two poems: the shorter 'Saraswati with the Lotus' and the longer 'Bankim Chandra Chatterji'. "Thy tears fall fast, O mother" begins the first, the emotion held taut in its six poignant lines; but the second is more elaborate: O master of delicious words! the bloom Of... seems to have told Sri Aurobindo that Bankim's writing was not Bengali! 14 After coming to India, Sri Aurobindo soon learnt enough by his own efforts and was able to appreciate the novels of Bankim Chandra and the poetry of Madhusudan. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo went further still, for in 1898 he engaged a teacher Page 49 — a young Bengali litterateur by name Dinendra Kumar Roy — perhaps... to imply the offering of new lights to replace the old and faint reformist lights of the Congress." Sri Aurobindo,, Vol. 26, p. 13.) Page 57 the personality and achievement of Bankim Chandra are among the earliest exhibits that we have of Sri Aurobindo's English prose style. Excepting in their boldness of thought and energy of expression, they do no betray the age of the author (he ...
... Bankim - Tilak - Dayananda Bankim - Tilak - Dayananda Early Cultural Writings Rishi Bankim Chandra 16-April-1907 There are many who, lamenting the by-gone glories of this great and ancient nation, speak as if the Rishis of old, the inspired creators of thought and civilisation, were a miracle of our heroic age, not to be repeated among degenerate ...
... Book One Book One Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram Rishi Bankim Chandra 16-April-1907 There are many who, lamenting the by-gone glories of this great and ancient nation, speak as if the Rishis of old, the inspired creators of thought and civilisation, were a miracle of our heroic age, not to ...
... Ratan Sarkar who was the best Bengali physician of the time. Added Sri Aurobindo casually, "I was at Baroda at that time. They wired to me about her hopeless condition." Another example: Bankim Chandra's grandson was at death's door. All the best doctors gave up and left. Then Bankim sat in front of his family deity, Radhaballav, with the resolve not to move till he got God's Grace. He got it ...
... Matthew, 92, 119 Aryaman, 208 Asia, 272 Asura, 19,45-6,80,98, 162,208-9,226, 253, 334, 349, 379 Axis Powers, the, 66 BABYLON, 199 Bach, 393,424,427 Ba1arama, 44, 207-8 Bankim (Chandra Chatterjee), 21 Beatrice, 203 Beethoven, 393-5, 424 Bengal, 21 Bergson, 143 Berkeley, 137 Bhaga,208 Bible, the, 100, 127, 152, 186, 192,397 Bois de Fontaineb1eu, 287 ...
... after this series of incendiary political articles had been discontinued, Sri Aurobindo wrote for the Indu Prakash on a more subdued key a set of seven essays (signed "by a Bengali") on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, although the interest was mainly literary, the political slant too revealed itself sharply, for example in a passage like the following: Page 184 Calcutta is yet a stronghold... energetic beyond belief." 32 And, of course, the Mutiny of 1857 had among its leaders quite a few sannyasins and Gurus who swayed the population against the British rulers. It is possible that Bankim Chandra's most famous novel, Ananda Math (1882), usually cited as the main inspiration behind the 'Bhavani Mandir' scheme, was itself inspired by the sannyasins' revolt of 1772 at Rungpur. That Bankim's... generally, and Ananda Math in particular, exercised a potent influence on Sri Aurobindo may be inferred both from his early articles in the Indu Prakash (1893-4) and his 1907 essay on 'Rishi Bankim Chandra' in the columns of the Bande Mataram. It is almost as though Sri Aurobindo is drawing our attention to the filiations between 'Bhavani Mandir' and 'Ananda Math': The Mother of his [Bankim's] ...
... 62 'Sriranga', 2 nd Main, 1" Cross, T. K. Layout, Saraswatipuram - Mysore 570 009 - India COLLECTION VANDE MATARAM Already Published BANDE MATARAM Bankim Chandra Chatterji's great song with an introduction by Sri Aurobindo. 48 pages, hardbound or paperback * AT THE FEET OF M OTHER INDIA A selection of poems, writings ...
... made heroes out of mud and whose bespelling profundity gave the very act of death the sense of a supreme ecstasy. The unique union of sweetness, simple directness and high poetic force in Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Bande Mataram is difficult to reproduce with absolute accuracy in English verse. But the inspired drive of it is admirably caught in general by Sri Aurobindo: Page 84 Mother ...
... Hugo, stands as the most representative French poet, the embodiment of French resthesis par excellence. Such a great name is Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali literature. We need not forget Bankim Chandra, nor even Madhusudan: still one can safely declare that if Bengali language and literature belonged to any single person as its supreme liberator and fosterer savita and pusa – it is ...
... associates, whom he visits and is visited by." Among them were several barristers, including Chitta Ranjan Das, Basanta Kumar Das, Bijoy Chandra Chatterji; there was our R Mitter (Pramatha Nath Mitra); the list also included the names of Ramananda Chatterji, Gispati Kabya-tirtha, Lalit Mohan Das, and some others. The list of names shows us Sri Aurobindo's wide-ranging interests. Those names were, in... interested in Indian culture, in education, and other aspects of Indian life and society. Gispati Kabyatirtha, for instance, was a founder member of Calcutta's Sanskrit Sahitya Parishad. Ramananda Chatterji was the founder editor of the Bengali magazine 1 Rapture of trance. 2 Upalabdhi = realization. Page 277 Prabasi (1901, from Allahabad), as well as the founder... remained unperturbed Page 278 in the thatched hut in Coolie Lines, or even in the dilapidated shed which was kept locked from outside all day long; only in the evening did Sudarshan Chatterji, a revolutionary, bring him some dried fruit and nuts to keep his body and soul together. Sri Aurobindo would not have minded any of those discomforts. But during those forty-five days or so ...
... (v) The demand of the Nationalists: Swarajya as the goal (vi) Tilak and Sri Aurobindo (vii) The Mantra of Bande Matram (viii) Birth of new literature, art and science (ix) Bankim Chandra, Jagdish Chandra Bose, Rabindranath Tagore (x) The Revolutionaries (xi) The coming of Gandhi (xii) The role of Annie Beasent (xiii) Jalianwala Bagh (xiv) Chittranjan ...
... Chandrasekharam, Veluri, 411, 427, 440, 536,540 Chatterji, Amarendranath, 285-6 Chatterji, Baidyanath, 317 Chatterji, Bejoy, 222,324 Chatterji, B. C., 217, 239, 272 Chatterji, Bankim Chandra, 15, 16, 19, 27, 49, 50, 58ff, 184,194, 219-20, 228, 235, 280, 281, 321, 514 Chatterji, N.C., 730-1 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath, 511 ...
... marrying Swarnalata, the daughter of Rajnarayan Bose, in accordance with Brahma Samaj rites. Rajnarayan himself was an outstanding product of the new India that was then rising. A contemporary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and a close friend of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rajnarayan represented in himself the composite culture of his time — Vedantic, Islamic and European ...
... lecture thus: "... I see this rejuvenated nation again illumining the world by her knowledge, spirituality and culture, and the glory of the Hindu nation again spreading over the whole world." Bankim Chandra, greatly appreciative, wrote: "Let there be a shower of flowers and sandal on the pen of Rajnarain Babu." Dayananda Saraswati (1824-83), the founder of the Arya Samaj, was a great reformer ...
... Kanta Gupta. Of those who are no more, Bejoy Kumar Nag was one — his name became Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basik. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: “Sakra”. Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later ...
... 1893-94 Contributed to the Indu prakash of Bombay a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' exposing the hollowness of the then Congress policy; another series on Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Learning Sanskrit by himself; learnt also Marathi, Gujarati and Bengali. 1895 First literary publication. Songs to Mirtylla (poems written ...
... 'Nowadays girls don't change their surname after marriage. They keep their own. And it is also legally accepted.' "Do you know, Dada enquired, how titles like Chattopadhyay, Mukhopadhyay, Bandopadhyay, Gangopadhyay were shortened to Chatterji, Mukherji, Bannerji, Ganguli? Let me tell you" After winning the battle of Plassey, when Clive became the ruler and peace returned to the country, a group... Once while writing a girl's surname Dada made a mistake. She said: 'Dada, I am a Chatterji. I love my family name. Since one loses one's maiden name after marriage I have decided not to get married. The girl was in a jovial mood. So Dada told her: "If you love your family name so much, you should marry a 'Chatterji'. Then you could retain your name." There were many people at the office.... could not pronounce the name. 'Your name's much too difficult. You've all brought a petition (aarji in Bengali) and your names are all long and difficult. I will call you Mukherji. And you will be Chatterji, and you will be Bannerji. And after hearing each one's petition he granted them their request. Page 19 One Brahmin didn't turn up with them, a Gangopadhys He preferred to wait ...
... they take care to see that their own writings may not be understandable to the people. And their popular style makes a muddle when they begin to write about serious things. NIRODBARAN: Basanta Chatterji has left Anilbaran and has now taken up his pen against you. He has written an article, "The Veda and Sri Aurobindo", in which he says that like Westerners you have not accepted the reality of the... learning, does it mean she is not a goddess? Where have I said that the Vedic gods are unreal? PURANI: Sri Aurobindo has nowhere said that; on the contrary, he has spoken of them as personalities. Chatterji hasn't read anything. In The Life Divine itself there is a passage on this point. (Purani read out the passage.) ...
... day someone came and said many fine things—on education, on literature, and on our country etc. We got eager to know his name. After putting us off for a moment, he finally gave out that he was Bankim Chandra. The talks used to be in English.... Another day someone else appeared and announced in a strident, dreadful voice: 'I am Danton! Terror ! Red Terror!', and harangued us on the necessity and ...
... (after some time) : Anilbaran wants to know if he should reply to Basanta Chatterji. SRI AUROBINDO (after short pause) : Yes, he can write that Sri Aurobindo hasn't denied the existence of the gods; on the contrary he has affirmed it. He has said that in the Vedas they are not psychological images but realities. Chatterji has misinterpreted Sri Aurobindo. Anilbaran can also write that the Vedic ...
... AUROBINDO: Do people want stupid rather than intellectual novels to be written? PURANI: Tagore in his novels analyses in detail the various psychologies which common people can't understand. Sarat Chatterji can be said to be non-intellectual writer. NIRODBARAN : Yes, except for Shesh Prashna(The Last Question) . SRI AUROBINDO: His last novel? NIRODBARAN: Yes; this book is seen differently by... NIRODBARAN: But love, in the sense of being faithful to one person alone, even if that person is dead—it is this that the heroine can't bear. Isn't this a European attitude? PURANI: Sarat Chatterji advocates free marriage or no marriage. He is for free love, as far as I can understand. SRI AUROBINDO: But why is free love European? In Europe no one advocates such an idea except a few intellectuals ...
... — several of his poems, 'Baji Prabhou', 'The Birth of Sin', 'Epiphany' and others appeared in the paper for the first time; it also published his translation of the first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra's Anandamath. In the later issues can be found some remarkably constructive prose contributions such as 'A System of National Education', 'The National Value of Art', 'The Brain of India', etc... time being — I will take them later."' Under Sukumar's instructions Nagendrakumar had booked the passages in the names of Jatindra Nath Mitter of Uluberia (a town not far from Calcutta), and Bankim Chandra Bhowmik of Nilphamari, in Rangpur district, names to be assumed by Sri Aurobindo and Bijoy for the journey. Actually, they were not fictitious names and addresses but were taken by Sukumar from... There were two stages of the journey. The first, and much the shorter passage, was from Chandernagore to Calcutta. Sri Aurobindo relied on Motilal to make the arrangements. He also sent word to Amax Chatterji, the young revolutionary from Uttarpara of whom I have spoken earlier, to give his assistance. As regards the second part of the journey, the longer and much more risky passage, he wrote to his maternal ...
... that of imitation, there came about also in the next phase a reaffirmation of all that was Indian as also impulsion to fresh creativity in the field of spirituality, literature, poetry and art. Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Tagore, on the one hand, and Dayananda, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, on the other, gave a new impetus not only to a new awakening but also to creation of new forms of culture on ...
... custom to marry very young. Rabindranath Tagore was twenty-two years old and his wife Mrinalini was eleven when they married ; Debendranath was twelve to fourteen while his wife was six years old; Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's age was eleven to his bride's five. And, it was around the age of twenty-three that Sri Ramakrishna married his little bride of six: Saradamani Devi. Page 92 In 1864 ...
... Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy. It has been approved by Sukumar Mitra. The facts are as follows: Sri Aurobindo asked Motilal Roy to make arrangements for his departure. Motilal wrote a letter to Amar Chatterji at Uttarpara, in which he informed him of Sri Aurobindo's intended departure from Chandernagore in a boat on 31 March and asked him to make arrangements to change the boat at Dumur Tala Ghat and to... smiled and said: "You have hit the mark; but how did you know?" Nagen said: “Somehow I felt it." "It is true," said Sukumar, "but take care no one else should find out." As previously arranged Amar Chatterji, along with his co-worker Manmatha Biswas hired a boat at Uttarpara on the thirty-first of March and met Sri Aurobindo at the Dumur Tala Ghat. They ferried him to the Calcutta-side of the river. To... leave. Nagen bowed and both went down the gangway. The only people who knew about Sri Aurobindo's departure were: Motilal Roy, Suresh Chakravarty or Moni, who was already at Pondicherry, Amar Chatterji, Manmathanath Biswas, Surendra Kumar Chakravarty, Sukumar Mitra, Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy, Bijoy Kumar Nag, who accompanied Sri Aurobindo, and Rajendranath Mukherji, Zamindar of Uttarpara. The steamer ...
... purposes." A little farther the Sedition Com-mitee's Report again refers to Bhawani Mandir. "The central idea as to a given religious order is taken from the well-known novel Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra. We find the glorification of Kali, under the names of Sakti and Bhawani (two of her numerous names) and the preaching of the gospel of Force and Strength as the necessary condition for political ...
... 1940 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 27 JANUARY 1940 PURANI: Anilbaran was asking if a contradiction of Basanta Chatterji could be written, pointing out his mistake or his ignorance. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, that can be done. SATYENDRA: Who is this man? SRI AUROBINDO: He is Anilbaran's pet controversialist. (Laughter) SATYENDRA: He hasn't read your ... AUROBINDO (before Purani and Satyendra came in) : I have read the Hymns . There I have distinctly said that the Vedic gods are no mere imageries but realities. I don't understand where this Basanta Chatterji found me denying them. NIRODBARAN: Satyendra has also shown me what you have written. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't remember if I have written anything against Sayana in my introduction to The Secret ...
... Reminiscences Champaklal's Treasures Promode Kumar Chatterji Sri Aurobindo'S COMMENTS: His sketches are very living and very expressive. He is certainly an artist. Yamuna : the river is good but the figure is self-satisfied. Krishna and Vidur : Vidur is good. Kailas : not bad. Shiva with cobra : good. GENERAL REMARK: The artistic part ...
... modern man is in need of such clear rays. "His heart has grown insensible to the sorrows and struggles of humanity." The poetry of Sethna reminds us of our forgotten identity. SUNETRA CHATTOPADHYAY Page 429 ...
... and an Old Classic 02-October-1909 We have before us a new edition of Krittibas's Ramayan, edited and published by that indefatigable literary and patriotic worker, Sj. Ramānanda Chatterji. Ramānanda Babu is well known to the Bengali public as a clear-minded, sober and fearless political speaker and writer; as editor of the Modern Review and the Prabasi he has raised the status... "Mahadev receiving the Descent of the Ganges". We would only suggest to the readers whose artistic perceptions are awakened but in need of training, to use the comparative method for which Sj. Ramānanda Chatterji has supplied plentiful materials in this book; for instance, the three illustrations of the Kaikayi and Manthara incident which are given one after the other,—Sj. Nandalal Bose's original and ...
... My mother had sent all my things, including the marble idol of Radha which I used to worship. Also lots of books: Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, some sanskrit books, Gandhi, Tagore, Saratchandra Chatterji, Kakasaheb Kalelkar, K.M. Munshi, the poets Kalapi, Meghani and other great men and women. There were two books I cherished most. In my girlhood I often read the Bhagavad Gita , and Edwin Arnold's ...
... caturvarnya, 90 , 120 Chaitanya, 204 Chandala, 29, 44 Chandernagore,71 Chandragupta Maurya, 178 charity, 102, 112, 129 see also altruism Charkha, 170,215,219,225 Charlemagne, 77 Chatterji, Bankim Chandra, 9, 21 , 155 China, 88 , 137, 202, 220 Communist China, 252 and India, 252, 253 and Tibet, 252, 253 Chokha Mela, 29 Christ, 77, 137, 142, 144, 170, 175,205, 213 Christianity, 59, 129 ...
... brought a world out of the combination of their inner and their outer observation, vision, experience. Of course if you have a world in yourself, that is another matter. 22 September 1936 Bankim Chandra Chatterji Depreciation of Bankim is absurd; he is and will always rank as one of the great creators and his prose stands among the ten or twelve best prose-styles in the world's literature. December... are other examples. As for Bengali we have had Bankim and have still Tagore and Sarat Chatterji. That is sufficient achievement for a single century. I have not answered your question—but I have explained my phrase and I think that is all you can expect from me. 15 September 1933 Saratchandra Chatterji What is stamped on Saratchandra's work everywhere is a large intelligence, an acute... it took me several months to finish it. This is not because I object to "light" literature, but because I had only an occasional quarter of an hour in three or four days to glance at it. If Sarat Chatterji does not mind my treating his book to the same tortoise dharma, I will undertake to read it; but I can make no promise as to time etc. Possibly it will take less time than the Round Table Page ...
... Augustine, St., 150 Augustus, 207 Australia, 106 Avatara(s), 49, 55, 69, 161, 205, 261, 277, 286, 390 BAAL,220 Babylon, 223 Bacon, 16 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, 114, 197 Bartho1omews, St., 52 Baudelaire, 48 Beethoven, 88 Behaviourism, 326 Benda, Julien, 119 - La Trahison des Clercs, 119 ...
... 272 Canon Overton 305 Carpenter, Edward 438 Cassirer, Ernest 267 Chadwick,J.A.32 Chandidas 45 Chatterjec, Bankim Chandra 9 Chaucer, Geoffrey 9 Chetty, Shanker 14 Chitrangada 363,458 Clark, A.B. 9 Clemens, Prudentius 336 Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 ...
... 1949 5 The article in question is "Bankim Chandra (1893 - 1894)", published as Sri Aurobindo's in the Supplement to the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library (vol. 27, pp. 351 - 55). Both Sri Aurobindo and Upendranath apparently assumed that this article was a continuation of Sri Aurobindo's "Rishi Bankim Chandra", which had been published the previous week. If they had carefully... The Writing on the Wall The Doctrine of Passive Resistance (seven articles) By the Way By the Way Rishi Bankim Chandra By the Way A Mouse in a Flutter The Gospel According to Surendranath A Man of Second Sight Graduated Boycott... noted that Sri Aurobindo mentioned this verse satire and no other. There is no reason to believe that the long satirical verse-play The Slaying of Congress was written by him. Rishi Bankim Chandra . Published in the Bande Mataram on 16 April 1907 . In 1923 it was reprinted as a pamphlet entitled Rishi Bunkim Chandra by the Prabartak Publishing House, Chandernagore. In 1940 a slightly ...
... temporary phase. When the first excitement had passed, there was a healthy interfusion of the new and the old, and the primacy of the West was no more blindly accepted. In the creative work of Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath, in the tremendous visions of Vivekananda, in the spectacular ministry of Dayanand Saraswati, in the seasoned evangelism of Ranade and Telang, the 'new' forged syntheses with... Rishi by V.S. Srinivasa Sastri. What an inspiring calendar of modern Rishis: Rammohan, Keshab Chunder Sen, Debendranath Tagore, Vidyasagar, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Narayana Guru, Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Ranade, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Subramania Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo: these are among the more well-known names of the last one hundred and fifty... came A slow miraculous gesture's dim appeal. The persistent thrill of a transfiguring touch Persuaded the inert black quietude And beauty and wonder disturbed the fields of God. Bankim Chandra, who was born two years after Ramakrishna, inaugurated the literary renaissance and gave India the reviving mantra, Bande Mataram; and twenty years after Ramakrishna (who was to restore spiritual ...
... The state of my mind has undergone a change. But of this I shall not speak in this letter. Come here, and I shall .¹ Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobindo Mahaprayane", Prabartak, Vol. XXXV, No. 9 (Paush 1357), p. 363. See also Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", pp. 818-19 ². The manuscript of this letter bears the date 17 February 1907. This is evidently a... gratitude. In March (most probably) Lele returned to Bombay. After returning to Calcutta from western India, Sri Aurobindo took a room at 23, Scotts Lane. It was here that he met Amarendranath Chatterji, afterwards a well-known revolutionary leader. The interview for giving Amar the initiation was arranged by Upendranath Banerjee. Amar wrote in 1950 about this first meeting in the following terms:... fear in your mind about it." Amar : "Will you not say something yourself? Is what Upen has said the last word? .¹ Cf. Purani, Evening Talks, Second Series, pp. 62-63. .² Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", Galpa Bharati , Vol. VI, No. 7 (Paush 1357), p. 816. Page 104 Smiling, Sri Aurobindo answered, "The last word is fearlessly taking the oath ...
... artistically designed palatial homes. Such is the part of this earth we call India. It is this picture, this figure that comes to us when we speak of our nation. This is the gross body of our nation. Bankim Chandra's song Bande Mataram describes this aspect very beautifully. Thirty-three crores of people live on this land with their joys and sorrows, their good and bad desires: they are all part of its subtle ...
... wrangled over, whose result might be hanging or transportation for life, some of these accused persons without as much as glancing at what was happening around them, were absorbed in reading novels of Bankim Chandra, Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga or Science of Religions or European Philosophy. * Looking at these lads… one felt as if the liberal, daring, puissant men of an earlier age with a different training ...
... time Bepin Pal had no connection with the Bande Mataram. Somebody said or wrote that he resumed his editorship after I was arrested in the Alipur Case. I never heard of that. I was told by Bejoy Chatterji after I came out from jail that he, Shyamsundar and Hemprasad had carried on somehow with the paper, but the finances became impossible, so he deliberately wrote an article which made the Govt come ...
... other born into its last glow of productive brilliance, but outliving it to develop another strain and a profounder voice of poetry, released the real soul of Bengal into expression. The work of Bankim Chandra is now of the past, because it has entered already into the new mind of Bengal which it did more than any other literary influence to form; the work of Rabindranath still largely holds the present ...
... Towers, a retired member of the ICS. He was called 'Pandit Towers' perhaps because his knowledge of Bengali did not go beyond Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. Once Sri Aurobindo took a passage from Bankim Chandra to his teacher. The old man could not understand it at all and said, 'But this is not Bengali!' In May 1892 Sri Aurobindo passed the first part of the Classical Tripos examination in the first ...
... Whenever Ramaswami spoke about his tutor, he spoke with love and respect. Nolini Kanta Gupta gave him lessons in the Bengali language also. In the new house Ramaswami rendered into Tamil Bankim Chandra Chatterji's short story "Jugal Anguria" and got it published in some periodical — I have forgotten the name, it might be "Swadeshimitran". lyengar's handwriting looked like a string of tiny pearls. Bharati... more, Bejoy Kumar Nag was one — his name became Vijayakantan in Tamil. In order to escape from the clutches Page 20 of the British Government he had assumed the pseudonym Bankim Chandra Basik. Likewise, Suresh Chandra Chakravarti was known to the people of Pondicherry by one name alone: "Sakra". Sourindranath Bose went by his own name. Nagendranath Nag and Biren Roy came later ...
... contentment depends on so many things. Specially if one is poor. The local zamindar wanted our upright Brahmin to testify falsely in a case. The Brahmin refused. Thus it was that Khudiram Chattopadhyay left his village Dere to go and settle at Kamarpukur, about seven kilometres away from Dere, and some twenty kilometres south of Burdwan. Both these villages are in the Hooghly District of Bengal ...
... the Hitavadi , read Sri Aurobindo's speech, he told Amar Chatterji that Sri Aurobindo did wrong to speak about his spiritual experiences. Panch Koti quoted a line of scripture to support his view. Amar replied to him, "My Guru creates Shastra, he does not follow it." ³ ¹ Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin , pp. 3-10. ² Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", Galpa Bharati , Vol... Vol. VI, No. 7 (Paush 1357), pp. 825-26. ³ Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobindo Mahaprayane", Prabartak , Vol. XXXV, No. 9 (Paush 1357), p. 364. See also Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", pp. 818-19. Page 123 At that time some young men of the Yugantar party used to come to Sri Aurobindo at 6, College Square for reading the Gita. Sri Aurobindo... him his sandals that she took them away – that he had to wait – nothing of this has made him angry. "² On 30 May 1909 Sri Aurobindo delivered the historic Uttarpara speech. It was Amarendranath Chatterji who went to Calcutta from Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo to speak to the Dharma Rakshini Sabha. He knew Sri Aurobindo through the secret society organisation and because of his previous initiation ...
... when the seasons are good. We think of the same places when in some foreign land we are assailed by the pangs of home-sickness." Such was the sentiment expressed by the magazine's editor, Ramananda Chatterji. Page 60 The warrant of arrest was the fruit of much debate in the highest administrative circles. Letters and telegrams, proposals and counter-proposals had been triangularly exchanged ...
... talking of Cosmic Consciousness. All these ideas are there in the general Prana and have equal validity from the point of Cosmic Consciousness. They may be as much true as his own i.e. when Basanta Chatterji contradicts him there is some truth in what he says. He has to see what distortion the mind has brought in democracy-personal ambitions-boycott-S-he has lost his head-like Europe-part of universal ...
... 8 September 1969 When I told you in my talk last Wednesday that I went, like the Lord, to prison, but, unlike Him, saw nothing, perhaps you 190These are noble characters in Bankim Chandra's novel. The author of the article is saying here that Sri Aurobindo is equal to all of them at once. 191Foreigner, in Urdu and Hindi. The word often carries a derogatory connotation. ...
... or give up speaking and singing! One Anilbaran is enough Page 386 for a single Ashram and variety can be the spice of Yoga as well as of life. But what is the matter with Bejoy Chatterji? 152 This fantastic case has lifted him up beyond earthly realities ? Or he has been taking bhang with the Sannyasis? Whence these stupendous imaginations ? You might suggest to him that if he wants ...
... police are now attempting to force on some demonstration which will give them an excuse for turning Barisal into a second Rawalpindi. The unprovoked blow given by a Gurkha to Srijut Satis Chandra Chatterji was obviously a prearranged affair, leaving the victim the choice between swallowing the insult and an act of retaliation which might have led to an émeute . Page 463 We think that Srijut ...
... the future that had been before us, there seemed to be overhead a leaden sky from which human thunders and lightnings rained. No man seemed to know which way to move...." It was Amarendranath Chatterji who had gone to Calcutta from Uttarpara to fetch Sri Aurobindo, on behalf of the organizers 1 of the 'Society for the Protection of Religion.' "I went to the Sanjibani office to fetch Sri Aurobindo ...
... into politics. He became the de facto editor of the 'extremist' Calcutta daily, Bande Mataram. The paper took its name from the opening line of a song in a famous Bengali novel— Ananda Math by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, and meant simply, "Mother, 1 bow to Thee"! But now it became a rallying political slogan, a powerful battle-cry, and even a potent mantra. As Sri Aurobindo himself remarked: ...
... then, the Punjab has been profoundly quiet, and the opposition to the Convention Congress and the convocation of the Hindu Sabha, presided over by so inoffensive a personage as Sir Pratul Chandra Chatterji, were the only signs of life it gave. We wonder, is it the first-mentioned activity which has led to the raids, searches and arrests? The almost universal opposition to a body which has faithfully ...
... 32 A Unit of Force Sri Aurobindo took part in the Barisal Provincial Conference held on 14 April 1906. He was in the front row of three in the procession, with Bepin Pal and Bejoy Chatterji. The president of the Conference, Abdul Rasul, passed with his English wife in a carriage. Other prominent leaders followed on foot in a procession. Nobody stopped them. But just as a band of young ...
... general welfare of the people around him and he evinced — despite the fact that he was "essentially a product of English education and European culture" 9 — a genuine enthusiasm for the works of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. Being a persona grata with European as well as Bengalee society. Dr. Krishnadhan was able to act as a link, a bridge, between the two; and, indeed, he came to be called the "Suez... about India and her culture, Sri Aurobindo couldn't have written in any other strain. In like manner, the poems on Indian themes the — Radha poems, for example, or those on Madhusudan and Bankim Chandra — were attempts to express his "first reactions to India and Indian culture after the return home and a first acquaintance with these things". 45 The literary echoes are certainly there, and ...
... Mortification at the success of Mahomedans in securing Anglo-Indian sympathy and favour and the exclusion of Hindus from those blissful privileges figured largely in the speech of Sir Pratul Chandra Chatterji who was hailed as the natural leader of Punjab Hinduism. These are not good omens. It is not by rivalry for Anglo-Indian favour, it is not by quarrelling for the loaves and fishes of British admi ...
... , (common man) appears to leave out the best and highest. NIRODBARAN: But Tagore's literary works—for example, his novels—can hardly be appreciated by the masses. In that sense, Sarat Chandra Chatterji can be considered more successful in living up to the democratic ideal. PURANI: In Hindi, somebody wrote on art recently under the title "Kasmai Devaya?" ("To What God?") and said, "Janardana" ...
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