Cotton, Henry : Sir Henry John Stedman Cotton (1845-1915), son of J.J. Cotton of Madras Civil Service: educated at Magdalen College School, Brighton College, & King’s College, London: Bengal Civil Service 1867: numerous appointments before becoming Secretary to Bengal Govt., Revenue Dept. 1888: Secretary in Financial Dept. 1889: Chief Secretary 1891-6 (when Sri Aurobindo passed ICS & arranged for his posting in Arrah, as requested by Dr. K.D. Ghose): Acting Home Secretary to Govt. of India 1896: Chief Commissioner Assam 1896-1902: retired 1902: wrote to London Times opposing Curzon’s policy in Tibet: author of New India, or India in Transition, besides official publications: took a prominent part in starting the Indian National Congress (1885), & was the president of INC’s 20th session held at Bombay in 1905. [Buckland]
... School%20History/History.htm Gardiner, Robert Barlow, ed., Admissions Registers of St. Paul's School from 1876 - 1905 . London: George Bell and Sons, 1906. Ghosh, Pansy Chhaya, "Cotton, Henry (Sir)". In Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 1. Calcutta: Institute of Historical Studies, 1972. Moulton, Edward C., "Cotton, Sir Henry John Stedman (1845 - 1915)". In Oxford ...
... Baroda He obtained, with the help of James Cotton, Sir Henry's son, an introduction to H.H. the late Sayaji Rao, Gaekwar of Baroda, during his visit to England. James Cotton was Sir Henry's brother not his son. Sir Henry Cotton was much connected with Maharshi Raj Narayan Bose—Aurobindo's maternal grandfather. His son James Cotton was at this time in London. As a result of these favourable... brother, Lieutenant Madhavrao Jadhav. [It was] 1 James Cotton, brother of Sir Henry (who was a friend of Dṛ K.D. Ghose) who introduced Sri Aurobindo to the Gaekwar. Cotton became secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club where two of the brothers were living; Benoybhusan was doing some clerical work for the Club for 5 shillings a week and Cotton took him as his assistant; he took a strong interest... favourable circumstances a meeting came about with the Gaekwar of Baroda. Page 33 Cotton was my father's friend—they had made arrangements for my posting in Bengal; but he had nothing to do with my meeting with the Gaekwar. James Cotton was well acquainted with my eldest brother, because C was secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club where we were living and my brother was his assistant ...
... intercede on behalf of A. A. Ghose. The first was James Sutherland Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, who as we have seen had already helped to provide Benoybhusan with a job. J. S. Cotton was born in India at Coonoor, in the district of the Nilgiris of the Madras Presidency. In his letter dated November 19, 1892, J. S. Cotton writes 1 : ". . . My present object in addressing you is to endeavour... then said, "My failure in the I.C.S. riding test was a great disappointment to my father, for he had arranged everything for me through Sir Henry Cotton. He had arranged to get me posted at Arrah [in Bihar] which was regarded as a very fine place and near Sir Henry. He had requested him to look after me. All that came down like a wall." He continued after a pause: "I wonder what would have happened... test and was looking for a job, the Gaekwad happened to be in London. I don't remember whether he called us or we met him.... I think I applied for the job when the Gaekwad was in England. Sir Henry Cotton's brother asked me to do it and through his influence I came in contact with the Gaekwad- "We consulted an authority about the pay we should propose. We had no idea about these things. He said ...
... their father sent only £ 100 instead of £ 360. At any rate the brothers could no longer afford their old apartment at St. Stephen's Avenue. Sir Henry Cotton 2 was 1.Members of the Indian Civil Service (I.C.S.). 2.Cotton, Sir Henry John Stedman (1845-1915): entered the Indian Civil Service in 1867, rose to be the Chief Secretary in Bengal in 1891, the Home Secretary to the Government... and his brothers had to live. "We lived for one year on five shillings a week that my elder brother was getting by helping the secretary of South Kensington Liberal Club, who was a brother of Sir Henry Cotton's. We didn't have a winter coat. We used to take tea, bread and ham in the morning and some sausages in the evening. Manmohan could not undergo that hardship, so he went to a boarding house where... the Broad Walk in Kensington Gardens." Beno and Ara had their rooms at the top of the building. There was no heating arrangement or fire in the office where assuming the last post, Sir Henry immediately took steps to improve the miserable condition of the tea-garden labourers of Assam. He was a most liberal Civilian and became a leading champion of Indian nationalism. He is the author of ...
... Book Two Book Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram The Sphinx 14-June-1907 Sir Henry Cotton has developed a sudden love for Lala Lajpat Rai. Though he has, like all Anglo-Indians—official or ex-official,—condemned and condemned unheard Ajit Singh, his love for Lajpat Rai knows no abating. He asked... the floor of the House. The statement shows that Mr. Morley thinks he knows more about Indian affairs than we Indians do; and his reference, obviously, was to Members of the Parliament like Sir Henry Cotton who tease the Secretary of State for India with inconvenient questions about Indian subjects. With characteristic conceit Mr. Morley replied that he should be very unlikely to make a statement without ...
... would not live with an atheist as the house might fall down on her. Afterwards Benoybhusan and Aurobindo occupied a room in the South Kensington Liberal Club where Mr. J. S. Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, for some time Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, 1 was the secretary and Benoy assisted him in his work. Manmohan went into lodgings. This was the time of the greatest suffering and poverty ...
... Denzil Ibbetson and deportation, from the stick of the Constable and the gun of the Gurkha, from sunstroke and the Civil and Military Gazette , from Pax Britannica and the Nawab of Dacca, from Sir Henry Cotton and Mr. Rees, from Fuller, Morley and Shillong Hare, Good Lord deliver us! From lesser plague and pestilence, from cholera and motor-cars, from measles and moderation, Good Lord deliver us! But ...
... smoking and playing cards at the Liberal Club after avoiding the riding test. DR. MANILAL: Was your father alive at that time? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, he was arranging with Sir Henry Cotton a post for me in Bihar under Sir Henry. But he died of shock soon after. DR. MANILAL: What shock? SRI AUROBINDO: He asked me to return to India by a particular ship. I don't know why on that ship. The ship was... supposed to be a spy. He may have reported me to the Government. DR. MANILAL: How did you get the job in Baroda? SRI AUROBINDO: I think I applied for it when the Gaekwar was in England. Sir Henry Cotton's brother asked me to do it and through his influence I came in contact with the Gaekwar. DR. MANILAL: I thought that your political career began with the Bengal Partition. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh ...
... meeting of a President of the British Association. We think at the recent Tyabji-Bose meeting in London, Babu Romesh Chandra Dutt must have discoursed, therefore, on the greatness of Islam, and Sir Henry Cotton on the saving grace of Brahmo-Theology. We anxiously await full reports of their speeches. Page 186 ...
... London as a landlady. My failure in the I.C.S. riding test was a disappointment to my father, for he had arranged everything for me through Sir Henry Cotton. He had arranged to get me posted at Arrah which was regarded as a very fine place and near Sir Henry. He had requested him to look after me. I wonder what would have happened if I had joined the Civil service. I think they would have chucked... to the pound which was equivalent to Rs 13; so he took ten pounds as a quite good sum. I left the negotiations to my eldest brother and James Cotton. The Gaekwar went about telling people that he had got a Civil Service man for Rs 200. (Laughter) But Cotton ought to have known better. NIRODBARAN: How much were your monthly expenses? SRI AUROBINDO: Five pounds. It was quite sufficient at that ...
... time". 5 After his brother's quarrel with Mrs. Drewett, Sri Aurobindo and his eldest brother, Benoy Bhusan, "occupied a room in the South Kensington Liberal Club where Mr. J.S. Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, for some time 5. Life of Sri Aurobindo by Purani. Page 7 Lt. Governor of Bengal, was the secretary, and Benoy assisted him in his work. Manmohan went into... found congenial." The Gaekwar of the State of Baroda happened to be in England at that time. He was one of the most enlightened rulers of the Indian States of that period. James Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, who was well-acquainted with the Ghosh brothers, had been taking interest in them. He now negotiated with the Gaekwar in behalf of Sri Aurobindo. The result of the negotiation was... house might fall down on her." Sri Aurobindo's name was registered at St. Paul's and at Cambridge as Aravinda Ackroyd Ghosh, because when he was born, one Miss Annette Ackroyd, who later married Henry Beveridge, the then Officiating District and Sessions Judge of Rangpur, happened to be present at the christening ceremony, and was requested by Dr. K.D. Ghosh to give the child an English name. ...
... mother tongue, Bengali (which he did not know at all), and learn a little Hindustani because Dr. K.D. Ghose, delighted at his son's success in the ICS examination, had arranged with the help of Sir Henry Cotton to get a posting for Sri Aurobindo at Arrah in Bihar on completion of his probationership. Sri Aurobindo could have avoided the strain of studying so many subjects by taking lightly his classical... only Manmohan who was upset at what Sri Aurobindo had done. Both James Cotton and G.W. Prothero, the senior tutor at Cambridge who knew Sri Aurobindo well, thought that grave injustice had been done and decided to intercede with the Civil Service Commission, the final authority for selecting the candidates. In a letter to Cotton, Prothero wrote: 'I am very sorry to hear what you tell me about Ghose... almost entirely failed, and he has had to keep his two brothers as well as himself, and yet his courage and perseverance have never failed....' In transmitting this letter to the authorities Mr: Cotton wrote: 'It happens that I have known Mr. A.A. Ghose and his two brothers for the past five years, and that I have been a witness of the pitiable straits to which they have all three been reduced through ...
... pressure that they exerted on the Secretary of State for India? Those were the letters Sukumar had written during his father's incarceration in Agra Jail to men like Ramsay MacDonald, Keir Hardy, Sir Henry Cotton and others, and the replies he had received from them. "For Page 67 the first time, no doubt under pressure from British Members of Parliament, the police, who never before had ...
... rise out of the narrow groove of class interests or racial pride and prejudice, can only be influenced by one consideration, the best way to preserve the Empire in India. Even in the minds of Sir Henry Cotton and Mr. Mackarness that cannot fail to be a dominant consideration. If any educational work has to be done in England, it is to convince these classes that it is only by the concession of control ...
... virtually stranded: the father silent, no remittances, food scarce. In this crisis they were fortunate in finding a timely benefactor in James Cotton, brother of Sir Henry Cotton, who was a well-known figure in India and a friend of Dr. K.D. Ghose. James Cotton was then Secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club which had its office at 128, Cromwell Road. The boys went and saw him and, realising ...
... all castes and creeds joined. Subscription dinners had been organised in honour of prominent public men, even outside that Club, the last one being less than two years old, when the friends of Sir Henry Cotton met him at a dinner at the Calcutta Town Hall. Babu Narendranath Sen organised a public dinner some years back, to celebrate the birthday of Buddha, where people of all castes and more than one ...
... trumpets contains at least one salutary truth which our countrymen would do well to take to heart. We are in the habit of attaching an absurdly exaggerated importance to Sir William Wedderburn and Sir Henry Cotton and the small group of so-called friends of India who figure so largely in the news sent over to this country. But in England these men do not figure largely. There is not one of them who can command ...
... M.17 Murray, D.L. 5 Murray, Gilbert 55 Murry, Middleton 308, 355,412,414 Myers, F.W.H. 334,436 AWa256,458 Nehru, Jawaharlal 17 Nevinson, Henry 29 Newbolt, Sir Henry 412 Nidhu,Babu45 Nietzsche 30,400 Nirodbaran358,386,416 Noyes, Alfred 331,408 Olson, Elder 434 Omar Khayyam 262 O'Neill, Eugene 268 On Yoga, ibid... 8 Maitra, S.K.33,34 Mallarme317 Marlowe, Christopher 337 Masefieldjohn 268 Mehta, Phirozeshah 10 Meleager 45 Mickiewicz, Adam 376 Miller, Henry 4,281 Milton, John 7, 142, 214, 243, 265, 309, 336, 356, 362, 371, 377, 378, 381-386, 461,462 Mirandola, Pico Delia 332 Morgan, Charles 316 Mother, The (Madame Mirra Richard)... Clark, A.B. 9 Clemens, Prudentius 336 Clough, Arthur Hugh 53 Cocteaujean 268 Collected Poems and Plays 39 Collins, Douglas C. 455 Cotton, James S. 8 Coulton, G.G. 412 Cousins, James H. 17 Coxe, Louis O. 398,408 Crane, Hart 390 Dante 33,102, 111, 330,333,334,371,372, ...
... the fees and wrote a letter lecturing to me about extravagance! ( laughter) But it was not true; I and my eldest brother at any rate, were living a quite Spartan life. My brother worked with Henry Cotton's brother in the Liberal association (Kensington) and used to get 50 shillings a week. On that and a little more we two managed to live. We had bread and a piece of bacon in the morning; at night ...
... Madhavrao – but was not successful. It was a disappointment to my father because he had arranged everything for me through Sir Henry Cotton. He had arranged to get me placed in the district of Arrah which is regarded as a very fine place and also arranged for Sir Henry Cotton to look after me. "All that came down like a wall. I wonder what would have happened to me if I had joined the Civil... " ² Though these letters were expressly written to influence the I. C. S. Commissioners, they yet throw sufficient light on the embarrassing ¹. Prothero to Cotton. 20 November 1892. India Office Library, London. ². Cotton to Macpherson. 19 November 1892. India Office Library, London. Page 12 economic pressure under which the three brothers lived for almost eight years;... Cromwell Road was perhaps the most trying of Aurobindo's stay in England. They were all so hard pressed that Benoybhushan had to agree to be an assistant to James S. Cotton, who was Secretary of the Club, for five shillings a week. Cotton's help to the three brothers in their difficulty is an unforgettable obligation. During this period Aurobindo used to get a slice or two of bread and butter and a cup ...
... particular. I tried riding again at Baroda with Madhav Rao but it was not successful. My failure was a great disappointment to my father because he had arranged everything for me through Sir Henry Cotton. A post was kept for me in the district of Arah which is considered a fine place. All that came down like a wall. (pause) I wonder what would have happened to me if I had joined the civil service... willing to propose Rs. 200/- per month as a good sum. It would be more than £10/- and it is surprising that he thought it was very good! But I left the negotiations to my elder brother and James Cotton. I knew nothing about life at that time. Disciple : What were the expenses in those days? Sri Aurobindo : Before the war, it was quite decent living for £5/-. Our landlady was an angel ...
... It is alleged that, but for the untoward incident of the Curzon-Wyllie murder, some if not all the deportees would by this time have been released. We have our doubts about this conclusion. Sir Henry Cotton and some of his colleagues were always ever-hopeful about the effect of their pressure, and their expectations were more than once disappointed. No ministerial pronouncement ever lent any colour ...
... the sickening British lie—repeated ad nauseam before Europe and America—that England governs India for the benefit of the Indians. The paper which so often contains articles from the pen of Sir Henry Cotton joins in this infamous chorus of denunciation no less than the Daily News which always so overflows with the pure milk of undiluted Liberalism, that is to say British Liberalism. Let us hope ...
... allowances. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes; we lived for one year on five shillings a week which my eldest brother was getting by helping the secretary of South Kensington Liberal Club, who was a brother of Sir Henry Cotton. We didn't have winter coats. We used to take tea, bread and ham in the morning and some sausages in the evening. Manmohan could not undergo that hardship, so he went to a boarding house where he ...
... December 1903 and January 1904 alone, 1 and the tidal waves of this agitation were presently to overwhelm all Bengal, and the effects were to be felt in almost every part of the country. As Sir Henry Cotton, who had retired after serving the Bengal Government under seven Lieutenant-Governors, wrote in the Manchester Guardian of 5 April 1904: The idea of the severance of the oldest and most... 12 million Hindus. It is, perhaps, arguable today that the earlier partition, had it been accepted, might have prevented the more disastrous partition of 1947! Page 205 Sir Henry Cotton's words of caution at the Bombay Congress (1904) having gone unheeded, it was inevitable that the next Congress at Benaras (1905), following close upon the "settled fact", should take a somewhat... e in East Bengal, and the separation scheme has been universally and unanimously condemned. 2 Again, as President of the Bombay session (December 1904) of the Indian National Congress, Sir Henry castigated the British administration in India and described their ignoration of the mounting opposition to the proposed partition as "a most arbitrary and unsympathetic evidence of irresponsible and ...
... in the Punjabee and by Lajpat Rai's own evidence. That Lajpat Rai was acquainted with Shyamji Krishnavarma when he was in England, was known already; so were many men who worked with him, Sir Henry Cotton among others, when he was only an enthusiastic Home Ruler and violently opposed to violence. The project of a Nationalist Servants of India Society well-equipped with a library and other appointments ...
... at the risk of displeasing their party bosses and of their renomination in Parliament, some members took a bolder stand than the Moderates of the Indian Congress. A few names spring to mind: Sir Henry Cotton, Mr. Keir Hardie, Dr. H. V. Rutherford, Mr. Frederic Mackarness, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, all members of the House of Commons. They were ably assisted by a number of journalists, among whom was our ...
... fragile That would waft me in the sky And with the wind I’d play awhile. Who are you, who are you then? Light, white and all round Maybe a strand of white cotton From nother continent bound? Were I now a cotton strand Warm and tender I would be In the nest a snug, soft band For the little chickadee. A fleck of cloud I am born I come to rest on your hand Melted... lake.* 15. Bebe S’endort *Ton berceau comme un hamac Tout doucement se balance. Faiblement, dans le silence, La pendule fait tic-tac. On entend dormir le lac.* *22.09.1953 Henry Spiess* 16. The Night *In the misty dark of night, Atop a steeple soaring high, The moon within her circle bright, Like the dot on an ‘i’.* 16. La Nuit *C’etait dans la... For the iridescent ripples are sparkling.* *The pike, the trout, and the grayling Must have had a great fright: On the dark stream-bed trailing We can see a strange light.* La lune — Henry Spiess Ce soir, la lune est cassee; *Il en manque un grand morceau, Car il est tombe dans l’eau Parmi la vague irisee.* *Le brochet, la truite et l’ombre Ont du tous avoir grand’ ...
... Service, which his family would not have allowed him to do." 37 His father was thinking great things about Sri Aurobindo's future as a brilliant administrator in India and had even, through Sir Henry Cotton, arranged provisionally to get a posting in the district of Arrah. But "all that came down like a wall"; as for Sri Aurobindo himself, he remarked quizzically: "I wonder what would have happened... came as a Page 36 disappointment, not only to Sri Aurobindo's brothers in England, but also to well-wishers like his tutor Mr. Prothero and his friend, Mr. James S. Cotton. The former wrote to Cotton a letter which he transmitted to the Civil Service Commissioners. After giving an enthusiastic account of Sri Aurobindo's character and abilities, Prothero added: That a man of... had no intention then of taking up a purely academic career. 42 His friend, James Cotton, was able to arrange an interview with the Gaekwar of Baroda, the late Sayaji Rao, who was then on a visit to England. The interview was a success, and Sri Aurobindo secured appointment in the Baroda State Service. Mr. Cotton had completed the negotiations, and the Gaekwar was indeed "very pleased to have an ...
... expressing his contempt for the Moderates' bankrupt policy of prayer and protest. Sri Aurobindo had also attended the 1904 Bombay Congress. It was at this 20 th session of the Congress that Sir Henry Cotton in his Presidential address mooted for the first time the ideal of 'a Federation of free and separate states, the United States of India.' With the stipulation, however, that the whole country should ...
... of life a long process of death. Even in the best of times half of the agricultural population never knew from year's end to year's end what it was to have their hunger fully satisfied. Sir Henry Cotton, Commissioner of Assam, averred, "The resources of India will vie with those of America itself ... yet no country is more poor than this." Affirmed Digby in 1900, "Because among other things we... absolutism so completely through the civil administration of the country [India], if that can be called civil which is in its spirit so military." As regards the artisans, the import of Indian cotton and silk goods into England was either prohibited or burdened with high duties, in effect killing India's manufactures and enabling England to reverse the flow of trade and sell its own inferior goods ...
... did not owe his inspiration for Indian political freedom to either of these things. 4. Mr. Kulkami says that Sri Aurobindo was introduced to the Gaekwar by Mr. Henry Cotton. In fact, it was Henry Cotton's brother, James Cotton, who knew Sri Aurobindo's eldest brother, Binoy Bhushan Ghose, who introduced Sri Aurobindo to the Gaekwar. 5. Mr. Kulkami says that it was one Swami Hamsa that... sympathy and warm-hearted support of these two gentlemen who represented the real culture of England. Mr. James S. Cotton of the South Kensington Liberal Club was one of the editors of the Academy . He was born in India, at Coonoor, and was a brother of Sir Henry Cotton, I.C.S.,' who took a prominent part in starting the Indian National Congress. Mr. G. M. Prothero was a senior tutor... 19 November 1892 (From Mr. James S. Cotton to Sir Arthur Macpherson. Secretary, Judicial and Public Dept. India Office.) Letter dated 20 November 1892 (From Mr. G. W. Prothero to Mr. J. S. Cotton; sent by Cotton to the C. S. Commissioners) When the rejection seemed final two Englishmen – Mr. Cotton and Mr. Prothero – took up Aurobindo's cause. ...
... Valentine, 269 Chitrangada, 100, 106, 185 Clough, Arthur Hugh, 639 Colebrooke, Henry, 13 Confucius, 212 Continent of Circe, The, 450 Conversations of the Dead, 338 Cornville, 134,140 Cotton, Sir Henry, 36-7, 204, 206 Cotton, James S., 31, 33,37, 38 Cousins, James H., 610ff Craegan, Superintendent, 308 ... David-Neel, Alexandra, 395, 396, 399, 525 Dayanand Saraswati, 15, 16, 19, 60,452 Defence of Indian Culture, A, 404,448 de Mello, Melville, 760 Derozio, Henry, 14,25 Deshmukh, C. D., 760 Deshpande, Keshavrao G., 47,55,56,57,64, 189,193 Deuskar, Sakharam Ganesh, 190 Dev, Radhakanta, 14 Dharma, 50, 201, 335, 336... 353, 354-55 Navajata, 775 Nava Sakti, 284, 308 Nehru, Jawaharlal, 490,728,735 Nehru, Motilal, 229, 522,531 Netter, William T., 778 Nevinson, Henry, 205,207,269 New Lamps for Old', 56ff, 184,190, 228, 281 Newsman, J. H., 490 Nietzsche, 441-42 Nirodbaran, 215, 577-78, 589, 594, 599ff, 604, 608-09, 655, 657, 693-94 ...
... Raja's place. Visited Swami Brahmanand at Chandod. with Dutt. Was doing Pranayam and Yoga. Attended the Bombay sessions of the Congress presided over by Sir Henry Cotton who made a vigorous protest against the proposed partition of Bengal. Wrote the booklet 'No Compromise' of which thousands of copies were secretly printed and circulated by ...
... had suddenly grown furious when Manmohan, weary of her bigotry, insulted Moses, and she had thrown the three brothers out of her house. James Cotton had become acquainted with them through his father in India, Sir Henry, who was a friend of their father. Cotton paid Benoybhusan five shillings a week to assist him in his job as Secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club. He also allowed the brothers... in London on a visit, the first of his many visits to Europe. With an introduction from James Cotton, A. A. Ghose applied for a job in the Maharajah’s administration. The prince soon understood that he could acquire for a song the services of a highly qualified functionary, an I.C.S. man in fact, for Cotton had reckoned that Rs. 200 a month was a reasonable salary and had convinced his protégé of the... all things Indian would be kept far from them. ‘I knew nothing about India or her culture,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo in reference to these years. Gentleman and Scholar Manchester, centre of the cotton industry, was the second most important English city, the symbol of the new industrial society and the image of the world’s future. ‘It was the shock city of its age, busy, noisy and turbulent. It ...
... cultivation of cotton. Even Egypt did not produce it until several centuries after it was grown in the Indus valley." Mark the word 'cultivation'. At Mehrgarh on the Bolan River in Central Baluchistan Jean-François Jarrige and Richard H. Meadow 89 found hundreds of cotton seeds in a hearth belonging to Period II dating back to the fifth millennium B.C. But the discoverers 90 tell us: "The cotton seeds were... Culture in about 2500 B.C. we do not come across the veriest trace of even wild cotton in spite of extensive excavation. So we may safely credit the statement of the Allchins 91 in 1968: "The earliest evidence for the cultivation of cotton comes from the Indus Civilization." Otherwise too, merely the history of cotton-cultivation would be affected. The situation as between the Harappa Culture... Rigveda was composed. The more inland country where some of the post-Rigvedic literature was produced is also shown to have been cotton-producing or at least cotton-using. Wheeler 97 refers to a "reputed example from Lothal" - that is, in Gujerat. Sankalia 98 reports cotton at Nevasa (Ahmedabad District) and at Alamgirpur near Delhi - with the latest date c. 1000 B.C. He 99 lists also Maharashtrian ...
... was interested in the Fabian Society and was very moral."' Chapter IV "There are inaccuracies such as his statement that I was introduced to the Gaekwad by Henry Cotton. It was not Henry Cotton but his brother, James Cotton, who knew my brother (and was being helped by him in his work) who introduced me to the Gaekwad because he took interest in us." Chapter V and VI "About Swami ...
... ruled by the foreigner. By then, my father was no longer in this world. Before leaving it he had made plenty of plans for me. He had even planned for his civilian son to work in Arrah in Bihar; Sir Henry Cotton was to be my guardian, so that my entry into the glamorous British society would be smooth and easy. So many of his dreams were centred upon me, and it was really a cruel irony of fate that a mere... is this attitude towards life that has helped the west to the preeminence it has acquired today. Anyway, now at least we had found a place to sleep, so after thanking Mr. Cotton we went to his club. Later, it was this same Mr. Cotton who wrote on my behalf to the British government so that I might be selected for the I.C.S. The club was situated in one of the most fashionable parts of London - South... Page 76 people that he had got a civilian for Rs.200. It is surprising my eldest brother and James Cotton were quite satisfied with Rs. 200 per month. I had left the negotiation to them as I knew nothing about life at that time. "So there you are, I had been tricked! But neither Mr. Cotton nor any of us three brothers was the least bit practical or knowledgeable as regards money, otherwise we ...
... people concerned." Henry W. Nevinson writes in his The New Spirit in India: "Such was the Partition of Bengal, prompted, as nearly all educated Indians believe, by Lord Curzon's personal dislike ³ of the Bengali race, as shown also by his Convocation speech of the previous February, in which he brought against the whole people an indictment for mendacity." Sir Henry Cotton, who had already... interests of the Muslims who formed the majority community there, and their condition bettered. But the very people of East Bengal for whom the change was proposed would have none of it. Sir Henry Cotton wrote in the Manchester Guardian of England on the 5th of April, 1904: "The idea of the severance of the oldest and most populous and wealthy portion of Bengal and the division of its people... Aurobindo hailed the Partition as a blessing in disguise, for he saw in it the hammering blows of benign Providence beating the torpid nation into a new life, a new aspiration, and a new shape. As Henry W. Nevinson puts it in his book, The New Spirit in India: "He (Sri Aurobindo) regarded the Partition of Bengal as the greatest blessing that had ever happened to India. No other measure could have ...
... Large portions of the Indian population were engaged in various industries down to the close of the eighteenth century.... The Indian cities were populous and magnificent. " - New India by Sir Henry Cotton. 95. The brutal oppression of the Indigo cultivators by the British Indigo planters led to a mass upsurge of such magnitude and intensity that it was called "the first revolution in Bengal... spiritual. He is a worshipper of Krishna and a high-souled Vedantist.... His notions of life and morality are pre-eminently Hindu and he believes in the spiritual mission of his people. ..." Henry W. Nevinson, an English M.P., who travelled in India with his eyes wide open, and his mind sympathetically attuned to the pulse of the new life which he witnessed all over India, had a talk with Sri... under which the three brothers had been labouring in England on account of the irregularity and subsequent stoppage of remittances from their father, he had taken a job as an assistant to James Cotton who was secretary of the South Kensington Liberal Club where the three brothers had been staying. Manmohan makes a rather amusingly sarcastic reference to his elder brother in one of his letters ...
... imitations of great poetry, is as palpable as the similarity. 1 Some familiar examples may be taken from English literature. Crude as is the composition & treatment of the three parts [of] King Henry VI, its style unformed & everywhere full of echoes, yet when we get such lines as Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just And he but naked though locked up in steel Whose conscience with... mind fainteth, thou art seized with a trembling in thy thighs, therefore thou desirest peace. Verily, O son of Pritha, wavering & inconstant is the heart of a mortal man, like the pods of the silk cotton driven by the swiftness of every wind. This shameful thought of thine, monstrous as a human voice in a dumb beast, makes the hearts of Pandou's sons to sink like (shipwrecked) men that have no raft ...
... regards cotton. The Rigvedics flourished in the very Indus Valley where the Harappa Culture cultivated cotton for nearly a thousand years. And yet the Rigveda which is commonly considered to have been composed from 1500 to 1200 or 1000 B.C. - that is, to have started immediately at the end of the Harappa Culture whose usually accepted date is 2500-1500 B.C. - has not the faintest reference to cotton. And... shows, I think, the precise point of our disagreement, and I think we have to stop at that. Yours ever sincerely, Bede Griffiths Page 275 References 1.Henry Chad wick, "The Paths of Heresy", review of Elaine Paget's The Gnostic Gospels in the Times Literary Supplement, March 21, 1980, p. 409, col.4. 2. Ibid., loc. cit. 3.Sri Aurobindo... (London: Collins, 1970), p. 225. 47. Selected Writings on Contemplation, p. 228. 48. The Ladder of Perfection (trans, by L. Sherley-Price), I: 8. 49. The Life of Blessed Henry Suso by Himself, p. 227. 50. The Sparkling Stone: Chs. 10. 12. 51.E. A. Peers, Studies of the Spanish Mystics, I: 334. 52. The Hour of God (1959), pp. 31, 38-40. ...
... the present concrete order of things. 'Physical' is thus opposed to all that is juridical, abstract, extrinsic to reality." 8 The above text is referred to by Bruno de Solages, S.J., and Henry de Lubac, S.J., after remarking on a certain passage thus: "Here, as often elsewhere, Pere Teilhard uses 'physical' simply as opposed to 'juridical'." 9 The passage in question is: "If things are to... concerning the Church: "This centre or focus of spiritualisation completely lacks connections with the human World in movement around itself. Around Rome, there is not an Iron Curtain, but a curtain of cotton-wool padding, deadening all noise of human discussions and aspirations: the World stops short at the gates of the Vatican." No doubt, Teilhard was told on 9 November of the same year by a representative ...
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