Chittaranjan C. R. Das C.R. Das : (1870-1925) was the eldest son & 2nd of Bhuban Mohan Das’s eight children. Inspired by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, early in life he came in contact with Bipin Chandra Pal. In 1886, he was admitted to Presidency College, Calcutta University & sent to London in 1890 to get admitted to the ICS. There he first met Sri Aurobindo in October 1892 while being, like most Indian students there, taken up by the politics of England’s parliamentary elections. He had failed that year’s entrance exam for ICS but the next year though he stood 43rd among the fifty who passed, the Service took in only 42! Chitta was admitted to the Inner Temple & called to the Bar in 1893. Back in India, he was sworn in as an advocate of the Calcutta High Court in December 1893. By 1907 he established himself as a successful lawyer both in civil & criminal law. He defended both Brahma Bāndhab Upādhyāya & Bipin Chandra Pal in their sedition cases. His successful defence of Sri Aurobindo in the Bomb Case Trial in the Sessions Court of Alipore brought a lucrative practice & his active role in the Congress, a lifelong friendship with Motilal Nehru. ― Hemendranath: “In 1918, while a Bench of the Calcutta High Court held that the Calcutta Improvement Trust could not acquire private land at will, another Judge of that Court had ruled in an analogous case that that Trust had the power of such acquisition. To reconcile these conflicting rulings a Special Bench was formed with the Chief Justice, Justice Sir Woodroffe, & Mr Chitty. Upon this the Patrika suggested that the Bench should have included an Indian Judge owning land in place of Chitty. When the Patrika was prosecuted from contempt of Court, it engaged Messrs Jackson, Norton, Chakraborty Byomkesh, & Chittaranjan Das. While Jackson, Norton, & Chakraborty failed to get the Judge’s understanding, Das managed to get it by explaining that the paper had not intended to cast any reflection on the High Court but merely to raise various points of controversy & answer them albeit the article did use expressions that should have been avoided ‘as such the article might be improper but that did not constitute contempt of court’. To this Das added a distinction between civil & criminal liability. That sufficed to exonerate the Patrika.” R.C. Majumdar: “The fact that Gandhi carried his pro-British resolution in 1919 in spite of the opposition of prominent Indian leaders like Tilak, C.R. Das & Jinnah, & again, without more ado, carried the opposite resolution eight months later (September 1920), again in the teeth of opposition by C.R. Das & other leaders, proves beyond doubt that he had already attained the position of spiritual guru in politics, whose word was law. This was further demonstrated by the Nagpur Congress of 1920 where leaders like C.R. Das ‘who came to scoff, remained to pray’…. The Calcutta resolution (of Special Congress Session on 4th September 1920 at Calcutta) was the first, but not the last, of Gandhi’s political somersaults…. [The] third Para of the Non-co-operation resolution moved by Gandhi & accepted by the Congress…conveys the definite idea that Swaraj was demanded only to redress Panjab & Khilafat wrongs…. The inclusion of Khilafat wrongs as a ground for demanding Swaraj would perhaps appear to many as nothing short of grotesque. Even the Panjab wrongs, grievous though they were, should not have been put forward as the basis of demand for Swaraj. By adopting this Para, political India went back upon what had hitherto been regarded as the fundamental issue, so tersely put by Tilak: Swaraj is my birth-right & I shall have it…. The resolution on Non-co-operation passed in the Special session of the Congress at Calcutta had to be ratified in the regular session…. It was generally expected that there would be a fresh trial of strength between Gandhi & the opponents of Non-co-operation. But, curiously enough, no such thing took place, & the resolution was ratified with only a few dissentient voices. This was mainly due to another inexplicable & sudden political somersault, – this time on the part of C.R. Das. Subās Chandra Bose, who shortly afterwards became the most confidential lieutenant of Das, gives the following version of the whole affair: ‘Mr Das & his followers mustered strong at Nagpur hoping to cross swords with Mr Gandhi once again. But through the latter’s tactful handling of the situation an understanding was arrived at between him & Mr Das. The boycott of the legislatures, to which Mr Das was chiefly opposed, was no longer a live issue as the elections had already taken place. It was therefore possible to persuade Mr Das to come to an agreement. When this was done, the non-co-operation resolution was ratified with practical unanimity, though Pandit Malaviya, Mrs Besant, Mr Jinnah & Mr B.C. Pal remained irreconcilable.’ The explanation is vague & unconvincing. Das did not indicate in the Calcutta session that his opposition was limited to the boycott of legislature. Even if it were so, the holding of one election could not be a decisive factor, as there was to be another election after three years. Besides, Bose’s own statement that Das started for Nagpur with a strong contingent to fight against Gandhi takes away the force of his argument, for even before Das started for Nagpur, the election was over & the boycott of legislature ‘had ceased to be a living issue’. Here, again, one might ask, what happened during his stay at Nagpur – perhaps during less than twenty-four hours – which induced Das to give up the fight & join wholeheartedly with Gandhi? The incident further shows the beginning of dictatorial regime (or guruvāda) in Indian politics….” In December 1921, Das, Motilal, & Lajpat Rai & Maulana Azad were among Gandhian leaders arrested. In a final bid to retrieve the situation Malaviya met Viceroy Reading who agreed to release the over 10,000 arrested Satyagrahis if Gandhi withdrew the agitation, saying it was possible to introduce provincial autonomy within the ambit of the 1919 Act. Das & Azad wanted to give Reading’s idea a chance but Motilal refused. In 1922, Gandhi, arrested on a charge of sedition, was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment. The upshot of that year’s Congress held at Gaya forced Das, Motilal, Ajmal Khan & Viṭhalbhai Patel (q.v.) to form of the Swaraj Party (q.v.) within the Congress. When Chitta visited Sri Aurobindo in June 1923 to obtain his support in his political career, Sri Aurobindo promised Chitta only spiritual not public support to Swaraj Party & suggested he leave politics & take up sādhanā. Since, in spite of failing health Das refused, he advised him to attend to his spiritual life as much as possible & promised his help in it. In Bengal, led by C.R. Das the Swaraj Party became the largest single party capturing 46 seats out of its 139 seats but Das declined the offer made by Lord Lytton, the Governor of Bengal, to form a new ministry. The Swarajists elected to the Central Legislative Assembly in 1923 found an ally in Jinnah. Together they commanded a majority & demanded release of all political prisoners, repeal of repressive laws, provincial autonomy & immediate summoning of a Round Table Conference to draw up a scheme for full control of the Councils over the Government. But in Feb.1924, following an attack of appendicitis Gandhi was released & immediately disrupted their progress. Nehru & Das tried in vain for his endorsement. Gandhi hustled them into a compromise by which he would not disrupt their progress if they became his foot-soldiers & quickly sealed this pact at that year’s Congress over his presided. It was this sort of fate that Tilak had warned them against at Amritsar in 1919. Hemendranath: In 1925, the Swaraj Party of Bengal created a great fervour in the country. On 29th March, at the behest of Lord Lytton, Lt.-Governor of Bengal, Das declared: “...I am opposed to the principle of political assassination... if violence is to take root in the political life of our country it will be the end of our Swaraj.... I equally abhor any form of repression; it will only encourage political assassination.” Pleased by this signal, the Secretary of State for India Lord Birkenhead (q.v.), offered to consider any constructive proposals Das could make: “Give us evidence of sincere co-operation & India & you will not find England a niggardly bargainer.” This Das did in his last public speech, “Swaraj & Dominion Status”, given as President of the Faridpur Conference on 2nd May: “...Swaraj implies, firstly, the freedom of working out the consolidation of the diverse elements of the Indian people; secondly, we must proceed with this work on national lines – not going back 2000 years ago, but going forward in the light & spirit of our national genius & temperament.... Thirdly, we must not be obstructed by any foreign power.... I do not like either Home Rule or Self-Government... my culture is antagonistic to the word rule, home or foreign.... Dominion Status today is in no sense servitude. It is essentially an alliance, by the consent of those who form part of the Empire.... [It] affords complete protection to each constituent... secures to each the right to realise itself, [thus] expresses & implies all the elements of Swaraj.... I believe... that the British Empire as a federation of diverse races, each with its distinct life, civilisation, mental outlook, if properly led by the statesmen at the helm, is bound to make a lasting contribution to the problem of knitting the world into the greatest federation – the Federation of the Human Race... but it involves apparent sacrifice on the part of the constituent nations, & the giving up for good the Empire idea, with its ugly attribute of domination.... ...We have been gravely told that Swaraj is within our grasp if only we cooperate with Govt. in working the present Reforms Act [of 1919].... But I am not willing to sacrifice the substance for the shadow.... The Government should divest itself of its wide discretionary powers of constraint... proclaim a general amnesty of all political prisoners... guarantee to us the fullest recognition of our right to the establishment of Swaraj within the Commonwealth in the near future & in that meantime... a sure & sufficient foundation of such Swaraj should be laid at once. What a sufficient foundation is, & must necessarily be, is a matter of negotiation & settlement... not only between the Govt. & the people as a whole, but also between the different communities, not excluding the European & Anglo-Indian communities.... I believe that with a change of heart on the part of the Government... such as I have described, the revolutionary movement will be a thing of the past....” Birkenhead was to “make an important announcement” on 7 July. But, broken by his exertions & rigours of the prison-life Das passed away on 16 June, 1925. Sri Aurobindo’s message in Bombay Chronicle of 22 June: “Chittaranjan’s death is a supreme loss. Consummately endowed with political intelligence, magnetism, personality, force of will, tact of the hour & an uncommon plasticity of mind, he was the one man after Tilak who could have led India to Swaraj.” [Durga Das’s India–From Curzon to Nehru & After, 1969; R.C. Majumdar’s History of the Freedom Movement in India, Vol.1, Calcutta, 1963; S. Bhattacharya; Lajpat Rai’s Young India – An interpretation & a history of the nationalist movement from within, Servants of the People Society, 2, Court Street, Lahore, 4th Reprint, 1927; GOI’s India in 1923-24:268-9ff; Deshbandhu Ch. Das by Hemendranath Das Gupta, Builders of Modern India series, 1977; S.P. Sen’s Dictionary of National Biography, in 4 volumes, Calcutta, 1972; SABCL Vol.26; P. Heehs’ A&R ’Dec85:227; Sri Aurobindo Circle 1984:36, & 1977:8; A.B. Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo, & Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, 2007; Bhattacharya Abinash, “Sri Aurobindo” Mother India, July 2012:528-39]
... than one year. There's British justice for you! Chittaranjan Das (1870-1925) —later known as Deshban-dhu (Friend of the Country)—was then thirty-eight years old, and a rising barrister. He was the son of Attorney Bhuban Mohan Das, who was a close friend of K. K. Mitra's. At the time there remained only Rs. 3000 in the defence Fund. C.R. Das accepted the job. With some initial hesitation though... Beachcroft, who "couldn't somehow believe I could be a revolutionary." Coming back to the progress of the trial, two days before his own arrest, on 11 December 1908, K. K. Mitra had requested C. R. Das to take up the defence of his nephew Ara. K. K. Mitra was suddenly arrested along with several other prominent men — Ashwini Kumar Dutt, Shyam Sundar Chakraborty, Subodh Mullick, Manoranjan Guha... me with chains. If to preach freedom is a crime, then I am a criminal and let me be punished." Here are extracts from Sri Aurobindo's statement read out —and, as likely as not, prepared —by C. R. Das before Judge Beachcroft. "The whole of my case before you is this. If it is suggested that I preached the ideal of freedom to my country which is against the law, I plead guilty to the charge ...
... "India must be bled." The Indian student community, including our A. A. Ghose, C. R. Das and K. G. Deshpande, reacted strongly to the public insult. In consequence Naoroji was elected and became a Member of Parliament, but in the process "I headed the list of the unsuccessful," as C. R. Das averred. Chittaranjan Das had gone to London in 1890 to study for the Indian Civil Service, and was turned... 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 about India. That showed his interest. At that time the India Society was started. The idea of terrorist activity... failure in the riding test was only the occasion, for in some other cases an opportunity was given for remedying this defect in India itself." Page 217 Thus both Sri Aurobindo and Chittaranjan Das were 'excluded' from the Indian Civil Service, as was S. N. Bannerjee, by the British Government —exclusions that were to rebound on it. Sri Aurobindo, however, avowed that it was he who ...
... the same day, where about two thousand Muslims took the vow of Swadeshi. Meeting after meeting were held by public-spirited men of Bengal. Rabindranath was there, as were B.C. Pal, K.K. Mitra, C. R. Das, Satish Mukherji, Monoranjan Guha Thakurta, and scores of eminent men. It was finally decided to establish a National Council of Education. It was on 11 March 1906 that the National Council of... was one of the vice-presidents. Then there were Subodh Chandra Mullick, Bepin Chandra Pal, Page 323 P. Mitter, Surendranath Banerji, Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Chittaranjan Das, Aravindo Ghose, Satish Chandra Mukherji, A. Rasul, Aswini Kumar Dutt, Radha Kumud Mukherji, etc. And Dr. Nilratan Sarkar, that enemy of death. Add a galaxy of eminent personalities of the then ...
... either case.... Aurobindo On Himself , XXVI.438 × C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo's lawyer in the Alipore bomb case. There are three letters; one dated November 18, 1922, to C.R. Das, and the two others to Barin, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, dated November 18, 1922 and December 1, 1922. The letters are included at the... spoke to her about the publication. She said it was easier for her in America than in England, but she had to see. We'll see. Page 271 ADDENDUM ( Letter from Sri Aurobindo to C.R. Das, his lawyer in the Alipore bomb case. ) 18 November 1922 Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years I think, since I have written a letter to anyone. I have been so much retired and ...
... they were starting the Bande Mataram C.R. Das insisted that Bipin Pal should be the editor, while they insisted that Sri Aurobindo should be the editor. Dutt told Das, "We have persuaded him to come from Baroda to take up the editorship of the paper." SRI AUROBINDO: What? Who persuaded me? I came on my own to start a nationalist movement. There was no C.R. Das at that time. In fact, Bipin Pal had ...
... Subodh and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C. R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemprasad Ghose and Shyamsundar Chakrabarti joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally Bepin Pal ...
... vividly lived the scene. She was but eleven years old at the time, but she recalled the wild excitement when the news of Arabindo Babu's release was brought to the house. Had not all of them seen how C.R. Das, her mamababu, had worked day after day, night after night, consulting big law books, pacing the floor, for months on end? His labours had finally been crowned with success. And when the released... prisoners reached their house, what joy there was! A jubilant welcome was given to the guests. After which the ladies of the house went to the kitchen. The young men out of 1 Sahana Devi, C.R. Das' niece, was a great singer in those days. I met her first in Pondicherry in 1935. Such an affectionate nature is hard to find. Page 271 the jail took an enthusiastic bath of liberation ...
... idea, if for nothing else then for coming to a settlement? Disciple : The Congress says the question cannot be solved as long as the third party is there. Sri Aurobindo : I told C. R. Das (in 1923) that this Hindu-Muslim question must be solved before the Britishers go, otherwise there was a danger of civil war. He also agreed and wanted to solve it. Disciple : The Congress ...
... unity; the other, defence. If there is no unity, then India will be prey to another power. We can't afford to have a civil war in India, for that would surely invite another power to occupy her. Even C. R. Das told me that this Hindu-Muslim question must be solved before the British leave and he was no less a patriot than anyone else. EVENING SATYENDRA: What is this flame-throwing business the Germans ...
... make it an authoritative biography. 14 May 1933 [B. R. DHURANDHAR TO A. B. PURANI:] My friend and colleague Mr. P. B. Kulkarni is the author of several books in Marathi, including a life of C. R. Das. He is now writing a biography of Sri Aurobindo Ghose. He has been collecting material for many years and has already written around 200 pages. As he wants the biography to be authentic he is trying ...
... Andamans for life, some were sentenced to transportation or rigorous imprisonment for several years; and some fifteen, including Nolini Kanta Gupta, were acquitted along with Sri Aurobindo. Presently, C.R. Das appealed to the High Court on behalf of those who had been convicted, and as a result Barindra and Ullaskar had their death sentences commuted into transportation for life. There were other reductions... ceased to be a "traveller between life and death", and he has become instead a Pilgrim of Eternity. After a whole year in prison, Sri Aurobindo came out on 6 May 1909, and went straight to C.R. Das's residence and later to his maternal uncle's house - the Sanjivani Office - at 6, College Square. One who saw him then has since recorded that Sri Aurobindo sat "outwardly unconcerned and unperturbed... and they found in Chittaranjan a true Defender of the Faith and a great prophet of the Future. At that time, Chittaranjan was known to be a rising criminal lawyer, a sensitive poet, a dedicated patriot, a flaming idealist and an adoring son and servant of the Mother. He came upon the court scene at Alipur, and the prospect brightened up at once for the Defence. Chittaranjan, although he was ...
... PURANI: Abhay says this is the time to preach non-violence to people in Europe when they are down with the curse of war and violence. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, to preach but not to practise! EVENING C.R. Das has delivered a speech in answer to the Madras Governor. He says that it is easy to sneer at non-violence during war, but it was the non-violent movement that overcame the terrorist activities that ...
... and reconciled their quarrels and went back to Baroda." He had constituted a Working Committee comprising P. Mitter, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore, Sister Nivedita, and himself. From the beginning, Sri Aurobindo used to contribute big sums for the work of the secret society; C.R. Das and P. Mitter also contributed. But he got a bit disappointed at the continued quarrels among the workers. "Again a quarrel ...
... but on business lines. But Gandhi does not want such industrial organization, he is for going back to the old system of civilization, and so he comes in with his magical formula "Spin, spin, spin." C. R. Das and a few others could act as a counterbalance. It is all a fetish. December 30, 1938 The Japanese have a wonderful power of self-control. They don't lose their temper or quarrel with... can be independent and many such units can be scattered all over the country and they can combine or coordinate their activities for a common purpose. January 29, 1939 You know what [C. R.] Das said about criminals? He said, "In my whole legal career I have not met worse types of criminals than in politics." It is better not to destroy the capitalist class as the Socialists want to:... don't object to "Allah-ho-Akbar"____ Why should not the Hindu worship his god ? Otherwise, the Hindus must either accept Mohammedanism or the European culture or become atheists____ I told C. R. Das [in 1923] that this Hindu-Muslim question must be solved before the Britishers go, otherwise there was a danger of civil war. He also agreed and wanted to solve it____ Instead of doing what was ...
... Stores—daily check. 4) Stocktaking. 5) Press. Another Press absolutely necessary but no money. Notes and Memos - III Elliot Rs. 50 paid on account of pay, not case. Rs. 20 paid by C. R. Das to E. through our office. He says we have nothing to do with that, but must pay it separately. Notes and Memos - IV Selections—A. Ghose Correspondence—Editor Reports & Telegrams etc.—S ...
... not to build except on a perfect foundation.' In June 1923 C.R. Das, who was then on a political tour of South India, came to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo. Das, Motilal Nehru and like-minded leaders had by then broken away from the Congress to found the Swaraj Party and participate in the elections to the legislative assemblies. C.R. Das requested Sri Aurobindo to give his support to the new party... changed circumstances after the war, to disclose his identity but refrain from revolutionary activities. The next morning 'Gabriel' left, to carry out Sri Aurobindo's instructions. During 1922 C.R. Das wrote to Sri Aurobindo urging him to reenter politics and assume the leadership of the Congress which was then in the throes of a controversy between the b'charigers' and 'non-changers' over the question... party. Sri Aurobindo declined to do so openly but assured Das of his spiritual help. It seems that at this time C.R. Das also sought to be initiated into Sri Aurobindo's Yoga but Sri Aurobindo did not agree to accept him as a disciple. Commenting on this many years later Sri Aurobindo said: 'He was the last of the old group. He came here and wanted to be a disciple. I said he wouldn't be able to go through ...
... administrative life. My interest was in poetry and literature and the study of languages and patriotic action. NIRODBARAN: We have heard that you and C. R. Das used to make plans, while in England, for a revolution in India. SRI AUROBINDO: Not only C. R. Das but many others. Deshpande was one. When I went to Baroda from England I found out what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong ...
... they should be prepared for it. At that time no one attached any value to what I said although some afterwards remembered and admitted, when the trouble first began, that I have been right; only C. R. Das had grave apprehensions and he even told me when he came to Pondicherry that he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous problem had been settled. But I have not been discouraged ...
... lovers win the Star Of Love whose unique miracle alchemy Can resolve Hate's anarchy into a Harmony." Hari Krishna Mandir D.K. ROY Poona – 5 March, 1963 DESHBANDHU C. R. DAS My appeal to you is this, that long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil and agitation will have ceased, long after he is dead and gone, he will be looked ...
... witnesses into submission and win his cases. In the early stages of the trial, a number of lawyers appeared on behalf of Sri Aurobindo and the other defendants but after it had reached the Sessions stage C.R. Das took charge of the Defence, particularly that of Sri Aurobindo. He was then a rising barrister with a growing reputation, had known Sri Aurobindo in England and was closely connected with him in the... case set the seal on his reputation and he soon became one of the greatest lawyers of his day, and later a leader of the nation in the political sphere. Indeed, it can be said that the appearance of C.R. Das changed the course of the trial so far as it affected Sri Aurobindo, and in the famous speech Sri Aurobindo delivered at Uttarpara, after his acquittal, indeed he says: 'When the trial opened in the... not been for Sri Aurobindo, the case would have been over long ago, for he was the one person, more than any other, whom the Prosecution was anxious to convict. The final speech for the Defence by C.R. Das spread over eight days. It is still recognised as a masterpiece of the art of legal advocacy and his inspired words towards the close of the speech when he addressed the Judge and Assessors have long ...
... administrative work. My interest was in poetry and literature and study of languages and patriotic action. Disciple : We heard that you and C.R. Das used to make plans of revolution in India while in England. Sri Aurobindo : Not only C.R. Das but many others. Deshpande was one. Disciple : You used to write very strong memoranda for the Gaikewad; you once asked him to go and give ...
... across distant seas and lands. Therefore I say that the man in his position is not only standing before the Bar of this Court, but before the Bar of the High Court of History” – thus said Deshbandhu C.R. Das during his peroration at the famous trial of Sri Aurobindo in Calcutta, in 1908. These prophetic words have been more than fulfilled, far beyond anybody’s ken and the process is further expanding ...
... organisers came and gave us lectures to join them. So we chose our leaders and plunged into the movement. Somewhere in July, the tempo increased. I remember that, in September or October, C. R. Das 194 and his wife - or maybe it was his son, I don't remember - were arrested, and the whole of Calcutta was affected by it. There was great excitement and movement. Then picketing began. They went... he took two fish from two hundred or three hundred of them? But all this didn't strike me then. We even held pujas 211 there. We invited Subhash Chandra Bose and he came for the puja. C. R. Das also was invited, but I don't know whether he was there. Anyway, we had good fun during those two months of prison life. Oh, I forgot to mention one thing. When the Non-Cooperation 210 ...
... interested in Bengali literature. Bankim's youngest brother, Purna Chandra Chatterjee, gives a personal account of Dr. Ghose. "Every evening," he wrote in Narayan, a Bengali magazine edited by C. R. Das, "we would meet at Dr. Krishna Dhan's house. I was a deputy magistrate in Rangpur at that time. Dr. Krishna Dhan was an exceptional person, I have rarely met with one so highly educated, so spirited ...
... at Nagpur in December 1920. Sri Aurobindo's friend of former days Dr. B.S. Moonje of Nagpur, made a direct approach to the recluse at Pondicherry. Leaders like Lajpat Rai, G.S. Khaparde, Baptista, C.R. Das, Moonje himself and many others felt that the Gandhian emphasis on the Punjab excesses and the Kilafat question was an indefensible narrowing down of the Nationalist demand, while the religious overtones... presided over the session, and made the demand 'for Swaraj more comprehensive than the mere redress of the Punjab and Kilafat wrongs. But the non-cooperation plank couldn't be successfully assailed, and C.R. Das himself, who came with a huge contingent of delegates from Bengal with the avowed purpose of wrecking non-cooperation, ultimately supported it instead. The Mahatma carried the day, and the Gandhian... having found our own nationhood, make it free. 14 When the non-cooperation movement had exhausted its initial force by 1922, Chittaranjan Das, Motilal Nehru and others wished to give a new orientation to Congress activity. It was about this time that Chittaranjan requested Sri Aurobindo to return to Bengal and take up the leadership of the Congress. Sri Aurobindo's reply (18 November 1922) was ...
... the first time that there was an all-India movement with the exception of Punjab and Bengal. In Punjab, the Arya Samaj rejected the theosophical movement of Besant and in Bengal the leadership of C. R. Das was too powerful to make a dent. Probably what led to the failure of the movement was the ambivalence in its accepting passive resistance, which then was the only available plan of action. Its failure ...
... The Alipore Trial served in no small measure to make Sri Aurobindo's name a household word in India. Having sensationally demolished the prosecution's case against Sri Aurobindo, his counsel C.R. Das, a great name in Indian politics during the 1920s, ended his moving peroration as follows: ...Long after the controversy will be hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation... encourage casual visitors, who generally had only a sightseer's interest or a prying journalistic curiosity, on important occasions he relaxed the rule of seclusion. Prominent Nationalist leaders like C.R. Das, the poet Tagore, the educationists James H. Cousins and C.R. Reddy, his former pupil K.M. Munshi, and several others met Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry and had fruitful discussions with him. ...
... Discovered noble traits in hardened convicts and Jail officials. Saw in fellow under-trials pioneers of a new race in Bengal. Wrote four articles on the philosophy of the bomb. C. R. Das's magnificent defence oration. 1909 May 5 : Sri Aurobindo was acquitted and released. May 30 : His historic speech at Uttarpara, describing his visions and... July: Arya stopped publication, giving 1easons. Visit of Wyllie Pearson, and his stay for sadhana. 1922 November: Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das's invitation to Sri Aurobindo to return to politics. His 'No', as he was then engaged in preparing to build on a 'perfect foundation' 'a higher consciousness.' 1923 June: ...
... Disciple : For example, Robespierre at, one time could not pass the sentence of death; on a criminal. Sri Aurobindo : That was in his young age and he got over that. Disciple : In C.R. Das there were many personalities : the lawyer, the poet, the politician etc. Sri Aurobindo : In your article you have said that Das's speeches 'were not logical. But in earlier days all his speeches ...
... 321; changes in physical appearance, 322; fasting in jail, 322; levitation, 322; on Divine Intelligence, 325; C. R. Das as Defence Counsel, 326ff; his peroration, 328; acquittal and release, 328; The Mother of Dreams, 330; at his uncle's place, 331; C. R. Das on, 331; letter to Bengalee, 332; Uttarpara Speech, 333ff, 385; Divine odes in jail, 334; Karmayogin and Dharma, 335... 525; on Tilak's death, 527; editorial in Standard-Bearer, 527; call to the young, 528; reply to Moonje on Nagpur CongressPresidentship, 528ff; talk with Saraladevi, 530; reply to C. R. Das, 531; discussion with Das, 531-2; on HinduMuslim unity, 532; refusal to return to Bengal, 532; "evening talks", 532ff, 543, 544; on khadi, kilafat, 533; on corruption and lust for power, 534; talk... 206,216,225,227,264,267, 296, 341 ff, 349, 390 Gooch, G. P., 713 Gossain (Goswami), Narendranath, 320ff, 323-24, 325,334 Goswami, Yogi Bejoy, 63 Guhathakurta, Chittaranjan, 234 Guhathakurta, Manoranjan, 63, 287 Gupta, Nolini Kanta, 14, 193, 285, 288-89, 298, 306, 309, 329, 335, 370, 376, 380ff, 405, 536, 541, 655, 690, 709, 725, 740, 742,763 ...
... on business lines. But Gandhi doesn't want any such industrial organisation, he is for going back to the old system of civilisation and so comes in with his magical formula, "Spin, spin, spin." C. R. . Das and a few others could act as a counterbalance. It is all a fetish. I don't believe in that sort of autarchy, for that is against the principle of life. It is not possible for nations to be like ...
... and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C. R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Chose and Shyam Sundar joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. " The editorial staff ...
... were kept in one hall. Sri Aurobindo passed most of his time in meditation. When the accused were brought to the court for the hearing, he hardly attended to the evidence or the conduct of the case. C. R. Das was engaged to defend Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo was guided by an inner voice to leave the defence completely in Das's charge. His view of life was thus undergoing a radical change in jail. In... answer from it. . . ."¹ On 6 May 1909 Mr. Beachcroft delivered his judgment. Sri Aurobindo and most of the others were acquitted. After they had been released, according to S. R. Das, cousin of C. R. Das, "Those who were acquitted came straight to my cousin's house .... Sri Aurobindo sat among them – the same wistful, distant look in his eyes – outwardly unconcerned and unperturbed. He had, as it... all heard the name of the man who put away from him, all other thoughts and abandoned all his practice, who sat up half the night day after day for months and broke his health to save me, – Srijut Chittaranjan Das. When I saw him, I was satisfied, but I still thought it necessary to write instructions. Then all that was put away from me and I had the message from within, 'This is the man who will save ...
... religious institution. It begins with religion and ends in commerce, everywhere you will find the same thing. 28 February 1924 On my visit to Motibabu, Motibabu told me that according to Mr. C. R. Das Sri Aurobindo is lost to India. Mr. Das had come to Pondicherry after seeing Motibabu and said, Motibabu's work in Chandernagore is not satisfactory. Mr. Das and Motibabu hold opposite views, ...
... organization not on political but on business lines. But Gandhi does not want any Page 59 such industrial organization and so comes in with his magical formula "spin, spin, spin." C. R. Das and others could act as a balance against him. It is all a fetish. Denmark and Ireland organized in the same way. Only now they are going to suffer because other nations are trying to be self ...
... Historical Interest Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To the Editor of the Bombay Chronicle Chittaranjan's death is a supreme loss. Consummately endowed with political intelligence, constructive imagination, magnetism, driving force combining a strong will and an uncommon plasticity of mind for vision ...
... just sat down to our usual discussions as on any other day, when all on a sudden the court-room seemed to grow silent and still. Chittaranjan's voice rose slowly in a crescendo of measured tones. We all stood up and listened intently attentive in pin-drop silence as Chittaranjan went on speaking, as if divinely inspired and like one god-possessed: "He stands not only before the bar in this Court but... and had it published in one of his papers. It has since been included in his Bengali work, Dharma O Jatiyata. Sri Aurobindo had to devote a great deal of his time in jail to his counsel, Chittaranjan Das, for whatever he had to say had to be given in writing. I found they kept him supplied with foolscap sheets and a pencil in the court room itself, and he went on wrting out his statements there... there. He wrote quite a few pages every day. In these statements he had to explain in lengthy detail his ideas and ideals, the aims and policy of the Bandemataram and Yugantar papers. Chittaranjan included all that in his speeches in court. Could the original manuscripts be recovered, they would be precious documents today. One day I mentioned to him that I had not had a chance to read English ...
... reason or mainly by his reason—e.g. Bertrand Russell, Bernard Shaw, Wells etc. Tagore thinks by vision, imagination, feeling or by intuition, not by the reason—at least that is true of his writings. C. R. Das himself would not be an intellectual; in politics, literature and everything else he was an "intuitive" and "emotive" man. But, as I say, these would be distinctions not ordinarily current. In ordinary ...
... religious books and in writing. He is said to be accessible to almost anyone known or unknown, who goes to call on him." What a far cry from present-day 'leaders'! Among the most frequent callers were C.R. Das, Sri Aurobindo's advocate during the Alipore Bomb Case, the Modern Review's editor Ramananda Chatterji, and the Sanskritist Gispati Kavyatirtha. 1 G. C. Denham was then Special Assistant ...
... and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes Telegrams about a Planned Political Reception [1] [Telegrams from Aravinda Ghose and Chittaranjan Das, Harrison Road, Calcutta, to Kaminikumar Chanda, Silchar, and from Aravinda Ghose and Rabindranath Tagore, Harrison Road, Calcutta, to Muktear Library, Netrakara:] JOIN PALS RELEASE DEM ...
... become a district magistrate in the I.C.S.? Rather he looked like a mendicant, a fakir! He was just like any other prisoner, a criminal, a thief, a robber. He had nothing to discuss with his lawyers, C. R. Das and Byomkesh, no comments to give them about his case. He would sit in a corner of the dock and sometimes laugh uncontrollably, becoming almost red in the face. What he saw there he alone knew. During... was in some other world far from this earth. Only the body, separated from his consciousness was held on the shoulder of the warder. I Took Care of Him Thus a whole year passed for us. When C. R. Das could not get any assistance from Sri Aurobindo, he would stand looking helpless, wipe away his tears in dismay and go away. We would say among ourselves, “Political leaders, when the blows fall hard ...
... of Swaraj is eclipsed by the Khilafat agitation. 1923, June 5 - Chittaranjan Das meets Sri Aurobindo. 1923, Sept -Creation of the Swarajya Party. 1925, Jan. 5 - Lala Lajpat Rai and Purushottama Tendon meet Sri Aurobindo. 1925,June 16 - Deshbandu Chittaranjan Das passes away. 1926,Nov. 24 -Sri Aurobindo withdraws completely ...
... United Congress 10-April-1908 Bipin Chandra Pal moved a five-point resolution setting forth the lines under which the Congress may be revived. The resolution was seconded by Sj. Chittaranjan Das, after which two other men spoke. Sj. Aurobindo Ghose rose up last. He admitted having a hand in drafting the resolution but denied the charge of inconsistency on the ground that this new movement ...
... attention to the proceedings in the courtroom and the goings-on in jail. His inner voice had told him that he would be acquitted for lack of evidence, and so it happened. In his peroration an inspired C.R. Das, Aurobindo’s lawyer, had spoken the following words about his client: ‘Long after this controversy is hushed in silence, long after this turmoil, this agitation ceases, long after he is dead and gone ...
... ns like Vidula (from the Mahabharata) and his original play Perseus the Deliverer appeared in those papers or in the Modern Review. Songs of the Sea, Sri Aurobindo's translation of C.. R. Das's Sagar-Sangit, was published only in 1923 and hence does not strictly belong to the Baroda period, but it is conveniently discussed in this chapter along Page 68 with the other... give back to us our lost heritage! Love of Nature, like love of Motherland, can also be elevated to breathless oration akin to religious devotion and consecration. Making a reference to C.R. Das's Sagar-Sangit and to his own verse translation in English, Songs of the Sea, Sri Aurobindo wrote in 1947: The sea to the Indian imagination is a symbol of life, - one speaks of the ocean... and beyond them (but also comprehending them), it is something more elemental, more primordial, - the ultimate Existence itself! As the sea is to Ellidda in Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea, to C.R. Das and to Sri Aurobindo too, the sea is a symbol of romance, symbol of the siege and the constitutive resolution of contraries, a museum and power-house of infinite consciousness-force. The arts of ...
... and strength to the people. In Bengal we were so afraid of the police. I think it was Gandhi who imparted strength there. SRI AUROBINDO: Did Bengal need it? NIRODBARAN: What do you think of C. R. Das? SRI AUROBINDO: He was the last of the old group. He came here and wanted to be a disciple. I said he wouldn't be able to go through in Yoga as long as he was in the political movement. Besides ...
... Subodh and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sunder joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had ...
... t C.R. Das had, when in 1909 he prophesied before the judge who was trying Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Case on the trumped-up charge of sedition and revolutionary action: "The able and 76. The Legacy of the Lokamanya by Theodore L. Shay. 77. Quoted by T.L. Shay in his book,The Legacy of Lokamanya. Page 214 prophetic advocacy of Chittaranjan ( C.R . Das) raised... impression Sri Aurobindo's personality had made upon the sensitive mind of C.R. Das. What was there in Sri Aurobindo in 1908-9 on the basis of which one could predict that "his words would be echoed and re-echoed not only in India but across distant seas and lands"? Subhash Chandra Bose, the chief lieutenant of C.R. Das, - C.R. Das became later in 1918 the foremost pilot of Bengal politics and one of... Page 296 instructions to his Counsel, but he was asked by his unfailing guide, the Divine, to leave the entire charge and responsibility to C.R. Das, who conducted the case with an inspired zeal and ability. C.R. Das's peroration was and has since remained a classic of intuitive prophecy, couched in a garb of glittering eloquence. We have already quoted some of the last lines ...
... from this year. September-October Sri Aurobindo and the Mother move to 9, Rue de la Marine (south-west section of the present Ashram block). 1923 June 5 Meeting with C. R. Das. 1924 January The Century of Life published. Group meditation discontinued. 1925 Meeting with Lala Lajpat Rai and Purushottam Das Tandon. 1926 November ...
... Part IV: Correspondence with Early Disciples Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Chittaranjan Das Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years I think, since I have written a letter to any one. I have been so much retired and absorbed in my Sadhana that contact with outside world has till lately been reduced to a minimum. Now that I am looking outward ...
... Letters of Historical Interest Letters of Historical Interest Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To Chittaranjan Das "Arya" Office Pondicherry the 18ᵗʰ November, 1922 Dear Chitta, It is a long time, almost two years I think, since I have written a letter to anyone. I have been so much retired ...
... meditations held from this year. September-October Sri Aurobindo and the Mother move to 9, Rue de la Marine (southwest section of the present Ashram block). 1923 — June 5 Meeting with C. R. Das. 1924 — January The Century of Life published. Group meditation discontinued. 1925 — Meeting with Lala Lajpat Rai and Purushottam Das Tandon. 1926 — November 24 The ...
... begun to move in our midst for the creation of a new and greater India. Page 52 × Narayan , edited by Mr. C. R. Das. ...
... Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 2 nd Edition, 1956). Technical Terms in Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy (Sri Aurobindo Karyalaya, Anand, 1949). Ray, Prithwis Chandra. Life and Times of C. R. Das (Oxford University Press, Bombay, 1927). Read, Sri Herbert. Collected Essays in Literary Criticism (Faber & Faber, London, 1938). Richards, LA. Coleridge on Imagination (Roudedge ...
... the physical plane," in other words, the forces of disease etc. 20 June. At the request of the Bombay Chronicle , Sri Aurobindo sent a message on the death of C. R. Das, which was published in their issue of 22 June: "Chittaranjan's death is a supreme loss. Consummately endowed with political intelligence, constructive imagination, magnetism, a driving force combining a strong will and an uncommon... all those who had come passed before him. Moni had composed a Bengali poem which he read. Sri Aurobindo liked it and gave him a garland. During this year, apparently, Sri Aurobindo translated C. R. Das's Sagar Sangit into English verse. For this the latter sent Rs.1000. V. Ramaswamy (Va-Ra) went back to Tanjore during the year. In October 1913 Sri Aurobindo moved to 41 (afterwards 10), Rue... Sri Aurobindo changed his residence from 41, Rue Francois Martin to 9, Rue de la Marine. After this time 41, Rue Francois Martin was called the "Guest House" On 18 November a letter was written to C. R. Das. During 1922 the fissure between the Prabartak Samgha and Sri Aurobindo had grown wider. In 1923 there were further differences over the question whether Supennind can be attained by following ...
... Manoranjan's son Chittaranjan became for a time a centre of great excitement and violent agitation in those days. There was a session of the Bengal Provincial Conference at Barisal which was attended by all the leaders like Sri Aurobindo and Bepin Pal. But there came a clash with the Government, the police raided the pavilion and attacked the procession with lathis. The boy Chittaranjan went on shouting ...
... Three times in those momentous eight years he was accused of sedition, yet never convicted: on the most famous occasion of the three, when he went through a year's undertrial detention in jail and C.R. Das, the future leader of Bengal, appeared as his counsel and, by a curious stroke of fate, the judge at his trial was one Mr. Beachcroft whom he had beaten to second place in Greek and Latin in ...
... visit often but did not live here. One brother Chittaranjan passed away sometime later. The rest Amiyoranjan, Kanakranjan and Robiranjan and sisters Gauri and Chobi lived close to the Mother. Manoranjan’s family too settled here since 1944. His wife Jyotsna with children — Arun, Karobi, Ashok, Runu, Barin and Madhuri consisted the family. Chittaranjan’s wife Minnie and daughter Chum also settled here ...
... Manoranjan's son Chittaranjan became for a time a centre of great excitement and violent agitation in those days. There was a session of the Bengal Provincial Conference at Barisal which was attended by all the leaders like Sri Aurobindo and Bepin Pal. But there came a clash with the Government, the police raided the pavilion and attacked 'the procession with lathis. The boy Chittaranjan went on shouting ...
... influence of others more accustomed to legal notions and legal phraseology than to the plain utterance of the heart. The accused was strongly represented, Srijuts Ashutosh Chaudhuri, Aswini Banerji, Chittaranjan Das and A. K. Ghose appearing for him in the case, and had he chosen, as he did not choose, to make a sensational trial of the Yugantar case and win for himself popular notoriety, he could easily ...
... which the outside world has no knowledge. Many prominent as well as less known persons sought and obtained interviews with him during these years. Thus, among well-known persons may be mentioned C. R. Das, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sarala Devi, Dr. Munje, Khasirao Jadhava, Tagore, Sylvain Levy. The great national poet of Tamilnad, S. Subramanya Bharati, was in contact with Sri Aurobindo for some years during ...
... English wife in a carriage. Other prominent leaders followed on foot in a procession. Nobody stopped them. But just as a band of young men came behind, the policemen lathi-charged the unarmed boys. Chittaranjan, the son of Monoranjan Guha Thakurta, was assaulted and pushed into a tank. Although he was severely injured the police could not stop him from shouting 'Bande Mataram.' That exemplifies the tyranny ...
... "Aurobindo is not a man, he is a god." Next he comes to Calcutta, to the political field which, you know, is not much better today, or is perhaps worse. Sri Aurobindo said to us, quoting C.R. Das's opinion that "the political field is a rendezvous of the worst kind of criminals"; and that field, when Sri Aurobindo worked in it, he raised to a level of sincerity and integrity, at least in his ...
... 16 . Tarapada Patra was in charge of Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, the publisher of Sri Aurobindo’s books and Ashram books. He later settled in the Ashram. 17 . Minnie, wife of Chittaranjan Ganguly, brother of Manoran-jan, Kanak, Robi and Amiyo Ganguly. 18 . Millie, wife of Anil Bhattacharya, elder brother of Sunil Bhattacharya. 19 . Ambalal Sarabhai, a noted ...
... tell you about Chittaranjan, the son of Monoranjan Guhothakurta. Sri Aurobindo, Bipin Pal, along with several other regional leaders turned up in Barisal for a meeting of a regional conference of Bengal. The gathering kept shouting Vande Mataram as they waited for the visiting leaders. When the leaders arrived, the Police made a lathi-charge. However, the young boy, Chittaranjan, continued shouting... shouting Vande Mataram . The police pounced on him, beating him ruthlessly as he slumped to the ground, bleeding. But he did not cease even once his cry of Vande Mataram . After he had recovered, Chittaranjan proudly told his father: “I cried out Vande Mataram as many times as the police hit me with their sticks. They could not silence me.” Just imagine how powerful this matri-mantra is! This ...
... January - Sri Aurobindo meets the Maharashtrian yogi Vishnu Page 586 - Bhaskar Lele at Baroda. May 2 — Sri Aurobindo is arrested in the Alipore Bomb Case. He is defended by Chittaranjan Das. June 30 — A large area at Tunguska in Siberia is devastated, supposedly by the falling piece of a comet. July 22 — Tilak is sentenced to six years' transportation to Burma for ...
... the outside world has no knowledge. Many prominent as well as less known persons sought and obtained interviews with him during these years. Thus, among the well – known persons may be mentioned C. R. Das, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sarala Devi, Dr. Munje, Khasirao Jadhava, Tagore and Sylvain Levy. The great national poet of Tamilnad, S. Subramanya Bharati, was in contact with Sri Aurobindo for some years ...
... Aurobindo as under-trial prisoner in Alipore Page 78 Jail and the subsequent court-scenes with Eardley Norton the most brilliant criminal lawyer in India as Crown Prosecutor, Chittaranjan Das shielding Sri Aurobindo 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. Beach croft sitting in judgment over... Nothing again could be proved and with its fizzling out the last political storm round Sri Aurobindo died down. For years the Congress kept wooing the self-exiled lion to return to his ldngdom. Chittaranjan Das and Lala Lajpat Rai delivered in person their earnest appeals. All to no avail, for though Sri Aurobindo still remained leonine a Call more pressing than that of any Congress or national ...
... with a different voice. Mr.Rajagopalacharya, the ex-Prime Minister of Madras, says that the only panacea for Hindu-Muslim unity is the joint To put before you, a letter from Lala Lajpat Rai to Mr. C.R. Das. It was written, I believe, about 12 or 15 years ago and that letter has been produced in a book recently published by one Indra Prakash and that is how this letter has come to light. This is what ...
... words - "Verweile doch" - to be ·an echo of "Fair wily doc" or, still more satisfyingly, "Farewell, doc." As for the other quotation, we may imagine the opening words " Das Ewig" - to stand for C. R. Das in a barrister's wig and we shall be surprised to learn that the lines -signify: The Eternal Feminine Is leading us onward. Well, no matter how mistakenly, how hazily, some connotation ...
... they should be prepared for it. At that time no one attached any value to what I said although some afterwards remembered and admitted, when the trouble first began, that I had been right; only C. R. Das had grave apprehensions and he even told me, when he came to Pondicherry, that he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous problem had been settled. But I have not been discouraged ...
... religion and ends in commerce, everywhere you will find the same thing. Interview with Sri Aurobindo Ghose by a Sadhak 1924-10-25 On my visit to Motibabu, Motibabu told me that Mr. C. R. Das told him that Sri Aurobindo is lost to India. REPLY: Mr. Das had come to Pondicherry after seeing Motibabu and said, Motibabu's work in Chandernagore is not satisfactory. Mr. Das and Motibabu ...
... Mohammedan." Similarly, Lala Lajpat Rai came to the conclusion that this behaviour pattern had its primary source in the Quran and the Hadis. Lalaji wrote as follows in a confidential letter to Deshbandhu C.R. Das: "I have devoted most of my time during the last six months to the study of Muslim history and Muslim Law and I am inclined to think that Hindu-Muslim unity is neither possible nor practicable. Assuming ...
... round Sanskrit and Bengali poetry Renderings from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, from Chandidas, Vidyapati, Horu Thakur, Nidhu Babu and others, from Bhartrihari, from the Sagar-Sangit of C.R. Das, from the Vedas and the Upanishads, from Bankim Chandra and Dwijendralal Roy— all these make for both variety and volume. Sri Aurobindo was willing to turn his hand to these exercises in translation—more ...
... 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 Affair. By now C.R. Das himself had become a nationalistic politician of prominence. He was called ‘Deshbandhu’, Friend of the Nation, and had become, at the time Bose put ...
... India: Minto and Morley (1934), edited by Mary, the Countess of Minto, quoted on p. 52 2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 1, p. 861 3. Quoted in P. C. Ray's Life and Times of C. R. Das (1927), fn p. 58. 4. Paradise Lost, Book II, 11. 796 ff. 5. Bande Mataram (Weekly Edition), 10 May 1908 6. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, pp. 22-23, 25 7... Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 4 44. Cf. Eardley Norton's Foreword to Bejoy Krishna Bose's The Alipore Bomb Trial (1922) 45. Ibid., pp. 4-5. [Cf. P. C. Roy Chowdhury's C. R. Das and His Times (1979), p. 59, and Purani, The Life, p. 109] 46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 5 47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 29, p. 667 48. P. C. Roy, Life & Times... 1. Based on Sri Aurobindo's ''Kara Kahini, Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, No.27,p. 120 2. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, pp. 1-2 3. P. C. Roy, Life & Times of C. R. Das, p. 71 4. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 2, p. 7 5. Ibid., p. 9 6. N. K. Gupta, Reminiscences, p. 34 7. ft., p. 35 8. Ibid.. pp. 37-39 9. Sri Aurobindo ...
... incorporate a Bande Mataram Company to raise the necessary finance. 5 In the meantime, Subodh and Nirod Mullick offered to keep the paper going, and Bepin Pal, enjoying as he did the support of C.R. Das and others, remained editor; but differences unfortunately developed between him and two of the editorial assistants, Shyamsundar Chakravarti and Hemendra Prasad Ghose, and so Pal retired towards... seemed to sound like the death-knell of the British Raj to the perturbed pillars of the bureaucracy. At Barisal on 14 April 1906, for example, when the procession was being dispersed, the boy Chittaranjan - son of Manoranjan Guhathakurta, a stalwart of the nationalist movement - continued shouting Bande Mataram! while the police went on belabouring him even after he had fallen on the ground ... tricolour hoisted on the Government Page 233 buildings and the Governor himself was made a prisoner. 31 And the boy heroes in our Puranas: Dhruva, Prahlad, Krishna himself! And Chittaranjan Guhathakurta at Barisal! Young men had no lack of examples, whether drawn from literature and myth or from modem European or contemporary Indian history. The "Hour of God" had brought out ...
... that were confined to petition, prayer and protest to the alien Authority which held India under subjection.... On the November evening referred to above, there were gathered Bipin Chandra Pal, Chittaranjan Das, Surendranath Halder, Page 391 and Sarat Chandra Sen — all familiar faces; the only exception was a retiring figure sitting quietly in a chair, whose name I later came to know ...
... move within limits; if they were to allow themselves to be as clear-minded as that, their occupation would be gone. It is not everybody who can be as cynical as Birkenhead or as philosophical as C. R. Das and go on with political reason or political humbug in spite of knowing what it all came to—from arrivisme in the one and from patriotism in the other case. In another essay, Russell writes: ...
... arrival here, he first fell at Sri Aurobindo's feet and then raised his head there was no Sri Aurobindo! (laughter) He had quietly vanished into his room. And you may have known from his letter to C. R. Das how very careful he was to secure his base, his ground, and be absolutely sure Page 18 before launching out on anything. So there had been no Ashram as such. ...
... millenniums at least and is going to carry on much longer and has accumulated quite enough power to survive. Sri Aurobindo added that he had warned the people of Bengal almost forty years earlier, and C.R. Das too - in the early 1920's had entertained grave apprehensions, and even told Sri Aurobindo while on a visit to Pondicherry that "he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous [communal] ...
... developed tuberculosis and then, when there was no chance of his surviving, sentenced to the heaviest punishment, he had been kept once again in that death-cell. Thanks to the petition of the barrister Chittaranjan Das arrangements were made to remove him to the hospital, but he was not given bail. In the end, due to the Governor’s generosity, he was allowed to die in his own home, looked after by his own ...
... Court the accused were confined in a large prisoners' cage and here during the whole day he remained absorbed in his meditation attending little to the trial and hardly listening to the evidence. C. R. Das, one of his Nationalist collaborators and a famous lawyer, had put aside his large practice and devoted Page 60 himself for months to the defence of Sri Aurobindo who left the case entirely ...
... the accused were confined in a large prisoner's cage and here during the whole day he remained absorbed in his meditation, attending little to the trial and hardly listening to the evidence. C. R. Das, one of his Nationalist collaborators and a famous lawyer, had put aside his large practice and devoted himself for months to the defence of Sri Aurobindo, who left the case entirely to him... they should be prepared for it. At that time no one attached any value to what I said, although some afterwards remembered and admitted, when the trouble first began, that I have been right; only C. R. Das had grave apprehensions and he even told me when he came to Pondicherry that he would not like the British to go out until this dangerous problem had been settled. But I have not been discouraged ...
... one hand and an unsheathed sword in the other, while pledging their lives, total dedication and secrecy to the society. P. Mitra would become president of a council of five consisting of Aurobindo, C.R. Das, whom Aurobindo had known in England, Surendranath Tagore of the famous Tagore family, and Sister Nivedita. Sister Nivedita (1867-1911) was the foremost Western disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She... he had put it all into my head … I never expected him and yet he came to teach me. And he was exact and precise even in the minutest details.’ 51 In his peroration at the end of the trial, C.R. Das, now Aurobindo’s lawyer, pronounced the following words about Aurobindo which are since then written in the pages of history: ‘Long after this controversy is hushed in silence, long after this turmoil ...
... this honour. [2] In this telegram, date-stamped on arrival 19 September 1920, he reiterated his decision. To Chittaranjan Das. 18 November 1922 . A barrister of Calcutta who became famous for successfully defending Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908 - 9), Chittaranjan Das (1870 - 1925) later entered politics and became the leader of the Swarajya Party, which advocated entering the... 27 - 28). The explanations in cypher concerning these "books" have not survived. [6] June - July 1913. [7] August 1913. The manuscripts ("MSS") referred to are Sri Aurobindo's translation of Chittaranjan Das's Bengali poem cycle Sagar Sangit , for which Das agreed to pay him Rs. 1000. [8] Circa 1913. [9] 1913 (between April and October 1913, Sri Aurobindo lived in a house on Mission Street... stopped all forms of writing. The "volume of poems" mentioned was probably Ahana and Other Poems (1915). The intended recipient of the letter is not known for sure, but it is likely that it was Chittaranjan Das (see below). To a Would-be Contributor to the Arya . 3 September 1919 . A letter to an unknown person who had sent a poetry manuscript to Sri Aurobindo for publication in the Arya ...
... my spiritual Force for that. He told me that he began practice with only Rs. 15-30 a month. But that is no unusual. Certainly not. It's done in America every day. It was the same with C.R. Das. Apart from legal acumen, I want more to see how far Doraiswamy's character has been changed and moulded by the Force. Lord, man, it's not for changing or moulding character that this Asram exists ...
... launched ostensibly on the twin issues of the Punjab massacre and the Khilafat Page 215 injustice, had, after the initial excitement and enthusiasm, floundered in futility. Some leaders like C.R. Das were anxious to retrieve the position and to "give a more flexible and practically effective turn to the non-cooperation movement" 39 and they also wanted to enlist Sri Aurobindo's services to encompass ...
... Subodh and Nirod Mullick as the principal financial supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sundar joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had ...
... the floor, and even the canvas of Sri Aurobindo's camp-cot was torn so that he used to lie down carefully on the untorn side and sleep. However, life on the whole became easier, for around this time C.R. Das sent Rs.1000 for Sri Aurobindo's translation into English verse of Das's Bengali poems, Sagar Sangeet. Towards the end of the year 1913 an incident occurred which showed how implacable the British ...
... Bassora, which was Exhibit 299/3 in the Alipur Case, was spotted just when the MS was about to be sold as waste paper to the Government Contractor. 21. Quoted in PC. Ray, Life and Times of C.R. Das, pp. 63-4 . 22. The Religion of Man, pp. 81-2. 23. The Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 349. 24. Quoted in F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance, p... conscious of this that it filled my whole horizon." It was evidently this experience that Fr. de Chardin later translated into the affirmations of The Phenomenon of Man. 79. Letter to C.R. Das dated 18 November 1922. 80. Translated from the original German by Medhananda {The Advent, April 1958, pp. 68,71). 81. See A.B. Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, p. 167. ...
... Jatin and Barin. Jatin, it appeared, had become too rigid a disciplinarian and was losing his hold on the youth. Sri Aurobindo formed a committee of five consisting of P. Mitter, Sister Nivedita, C.R. Das, Surendranath Tagore and Jatin to be in overall charge of the revolutionary work in Bengal. Although some differences continued, the work under P. Mitter's leadership increased enormously. Hundreds ...
... of the man who put away from him all other thoughts and abandoned all his practice, who sat up half the night day after day for months Page 7 and broke his health to save me,—Srijut Chittaranjan Das. When I saw him, I was satisfied, but I still thought it necessary to write instructions. Then all that was put from me and I had the message from within, "This is the man who will save you ...
... of Birkenhead, a British Conservative statesman and lawyer, became Lord Chancellor (1919-22) and Secretary of State for India (1924- 28) and was ennobled as the first Lord Birkenhead. Chittaranjan Das (1870-1925), later called Deshbandhu (Friend of the Country), eminent lawyer, nationalist and a visionary who defended Sri Aurobindo in the Alipore Bomb Case. Page 293 ...
... not allow any disturbing mental waves to interfere between. A still heart, a clear mind and untroubled nerves are the very first necessity for the perfection of our Yoga. I enclose a letter for C. R. Das. Please transmit it & get a reply written or verbal. You will see, I did not authorise Bhaga to ask him for money; at the same time, in doing so, he obeyed an unspoken general vyapti from myself... disappointed us that I send off this letter, without farther waiting. If he comes, I shall write to you as soon as anything is settled. [7] [August 1913] Dear M. I enclose a letter to C. R. Das. Please let me know as soon as possible whether he has received the MSS. Also let me have the address of your West Indian friend in that connection which you omitted to give in your last letter,—of... this time—we shall see afterwards when I have recovered my physical equilibrium. I expect Rs 40 for July & the money for August (current) which will complete our regular account for the present if C. R. Das sends in the rest of his money as proposed. By the way, his agents Grindlay & Co send me Rs 300 with a note saying that I shall get Rs 1000 for the translations. Is the Rs 300 part of the Rs 1000 ...
... Dr. Ghosh was particularly fond of Sri Aurobindo, and had high hopes of his 7. Among his Indian companions in England, mention may be made of K.G. Deshpande, Sir Harisingh Gaur and Chittaranjan Das. Page 12 "Auro" 's brilliant future. But a cruel fate lay in wait for him. He was informed by Messrs. Grindlay & Co. that the steamer by which Sri Aurobindo was sailing had ...
... impulse of self-expression in the Songs of the Sea as in this poem I was not busy with anything of the kind but was only rendering into English the self-expression of my friend and fellow-poet C. R. Das in his fine Bengali poem Sagar Sangit . I was not even self moved to translate this work, however beautiful I found it; I might even be accused of having written the translation as a pot-boiler, ...
... being settled. The first terms that were proposed did not meet with Sri Aurobindo 's Page 35 approval. But next day an open letter from Swami Vishwananda appeared agreeing with C.R. Das : The Mahant abdicates in favour of Prabhat Giri and the power of management of the temple rests with a committee that can, if necessary, dismiss the Mahant and the committee would appoint a separate ...
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