Dane, Sir Louis : Louis William (1856-1946): ICS, arrived in India 1876, served in Panjab as Pvt Secretary to Lt-Gov. 1872-82: Officiating Registrar of the Chief Court 1886: Settlement Officer, Gurdāspur 1887: Deputy Commissioner Peshawar 1892: Chief Secretary to Punjab Govt. 1898: Resident in Kashmir 1901: Foreign Secretary to Govt. 1903: Head of British Mission to Kabul 1904-5 to bulldoze another Treaty with the Emir of Afghanistan: K.C.I.E.: Lt. Governor of Punjab 1908-13: with Lord Hardinge in the Delhi Durbar 1911: wounded in 1940 when Sir Michael O’Dwyer was killed. [Buckland]
... like Sir George Clarke, the entire cessation of political agitation, because the political agitator is the spiritual granduncle of the political assassin. Others seem to want the entire Indian community to leave their ordinary avocations and turn detectives, in order to supply the deficiencies of that costly police force through which the bureaucracy governs the country. But Sir Louis Dane's diatribe... dignity to which popular sentiment is advancing, it is democracy. If the Councils do not provide a channel for the advance of that sentiment, it will seek other means of self-accomplishment. Sir Louis Dane on Terrorism The amazing lecture given by the Satrap of the Punjab to the Maharaja of Darbhanga and the other gentlemen who were ill-advised enough to approach him with their expressions of... the insensate folly which persists in these delusions and, by lumping all political agitation into one category, does its best to bring about the calamity which it imagines. The fewer rulers like Sir Louis there are in this country, the better for the nation and the Government; for they are the best allies that Terrorism has. Page 394 The Menace of Deportation Once more rumours of deportation ...
... t Versailles of India - Mahabalipuram. Vedapuri itself fell asleep. The destructive force of Islam came and went; the Portugese came and called the town 'Puducheira' and Dutch 'Pœbser', and the Danes - all trying to get some of the gold the Romans had lost, - and built their trading offices, their 'comptoirs'. In the 17th century came the French, who built on the shore the largest and most powerful... last moment. I only hope He does not wish us to learn how to live on a minus quantity like B...."14 In April 1911 Sri Aurobindo moved with his associates from Rue Suffren to a house in Rue St. Louis and lived there till April, 1913. This house is now called Raghavan House. Before we proceed with our narrative it would be useful to have a clear idea of the civic life of Pondicherry at the... made up all sorts of stories at their sweet will. As they found it difficult to gather correct and precise information, they would just fabricate the news." 18 In the Raghavan house in St. Louis Street, Sri Aurobindo's birthday was celebrated on the 15th August. "Some local people, Sada, Pitrus, David and four others, besides the members of the house, took part in the celebration. Sri Aurobindo ...
... plays in the Grand Masters' circuit with his old friends Rod Laver, Ken Rosewall and others. And as a person he remains as unassuming and friendly as we could hope to meet. A few years later the Dane Törben Ulrich also Page 81 gave a fine display of tennis on the same green cement court. He was the reigning champion of Denmark. Both he and Krishnan represented their respective... friends were gathered. A grand salon, therefore ornamental and awe-inspiring. But nothing awed little Mirra. "I'll show you something: how one should dance." The little friends cleared the space, the Louis xv (or xviii, whichever) pedestal tables were shoved out of the way, and "I went to a corner of the room to get the longest distance from one corner to the other. I told them, 'One single step to the... park, when I saw there ... I saw the park filling up with lights —that is, the electric lights had vanished —with all kinds of lights: torches, lanterns, etc. And many people were walking about ... in Louis XIV costume! My eyes were wide open as I stood staring at all this. I was holding on to the balustrade to be sure not to fall down! For I was rather unsure of myself. I was looking at all that when ...
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