Chitnavis : Sir Gangādhara Rao Madhavrao (1863-1929): leader of Prabhu community: Hon. Magistrate: President of Nagpur District Council 1888, & of Nagpur Municipality 1894: represented Central Provinces as Member of Gov.-General’s Legislative Council 1893-5: C.I.E. or Companion of the Indian Empire 1895: guest of the nation, representing Central Provinces at His Majesty the King’s Coronation 1902: conferred knighthood at the 1911 Delhi Durbar. [Buckland] Chitnavis fulfilled his allotted role in shifting the 1907 Congress from Nagpur to Surat.
... 22nd September was conceived in the brain of so harmless and insignificant a personality as Mr. Chitnavis. The attempt to expel Dr. Munje and his Nationalist colleagues from the Executive Committee was a failure because leonine tactics require a leonine personality to carry them through and Mr. Chitnavis was trying to wear the giant's robe without possessing the bulk and sinews of the giant. But their ...
... Bengalee , not contented with its arrogant demand for submission, goes on to declare that the Nationalists, because they refuse this claim, are traitors to their country, that the men who opposed Mr. Chitnavis' autocracy at Nagpur or Sir Pherozshah's at Calcutta or Mr. K. B. Dutt's at Midnapore are rowdies and the Nationalist leaders, Mr. Tilak and Mr. Khaparde in the West or Srijuts Bipin Pal, Aurobindo ...
... which they are unfortunately too much addicted, they tried to remedy their original error by riding roughshod over procedure and the unwritten law that guides the conduct of all public bodies. Mr. Chitnavis, one of the Secretaries, called on his own initiative a fresh meeting to elect a new Executive in which the Moderates should predominate. Dr. Munje, also a Secretary, was perfectly Page 723 ...
... Committee elected an Executive Committee which had a Nationalist majority. Soon after, the Moderates unconstitutionally wanted to have a new Executive Committee elected. But when one secretary, Chitnavis, called a meeting of the Reception Committee for this purpose, another secretary. Dr. B.S. Moonje, would not allow the meeting to be held; and so a pandemonium resulted. The Moderates, having first ...
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