Deuskar : Sakhārām Ganesh, a Mahārāshtrian writer whose family had lived long in Bengal. An able writer in Bengali, he was author of Desher Katha, & the first person to use the word “Swaraj” (in his life of Shivaji). He was among the early writers in the revolutionary journal Yugāntar, & the chief organiser of “political festivals” in Bengal, like the Shivaji festival held in June 1906. He had “extended to Tilak a pressing invitation to attend the Shivaji coronation celebrations at Calcutta that year. Bengal leaders wanted Tilak’s guidance in what they had been planning & doing since the partition question had activised them.” [Karandikar:224-25]
... these revolutionary groups was a Maharatta named Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar who was an able writer in Bengali and who had written a popular life of Shiva ji in Bengali in which he first brought in the name of Swaraj, afterwards adopted by the Nationalists as their word for independence... " 196 It is said that Sri Aurobindo sent Barin to Deuskar, requesting him to write an authentic book on the British e... exploitation of the economic resources of the country, and Deuskar readily acceded to the request. "He published a book entitled Desher Katha describing in exhaustive detail the British commercial and industrial exploitation of India. This book had an immense repercussion in Bengal, captured the mind of young Bengal and assisted more than anything else in the preparation of the Swadeshi movement. ...
... been ready for the Boycott [movement]. In this one instance it may be said of him that he not only wrote history but created it." I have also quoted from Desher Katha 1 by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar (1869-1912). Son of a Marathi Brahmin who had settled in Bengal, Sakharam was born in Deoghar. He studied in the Deoghar School and later became a teacher there. He was Barin's teacher of History.... 1904, Desher Katha sold ten thousand copies in four editions within the year. The fifth edition came out in 1905. The government of Bengal banned the book in 1910 and confiscated all the copies. Deuskar was the first to bring in the name of Swaraj, and Sri Aurobindo was the first to endow it with its English equivalent, 'Independence.' The Nationalists adopted this word, and Swaraj became the chief ...
... Government fearlessly. Around this time a book in Bengali entitled Desher Katha was also causing a sensation. Its author was Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar, a Maharashtrian revolutionary who was an able writer in Bengali. At Sri Aurobindo's request, Deuskar wrote the book in which he exposed, in vivid detail, how the British had ruthlessly exploited India, commercially and industrially, in the course ...
... The programme of this organisation was at first Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott—Swaraj meaning to it complete independence. The word Swaraj was first used by the Bengali-Maratha publicist, Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar, writer of Desher Katha , a book compiling all the details of India's economic servitude which had an enormous influence on the young men of Bengal and helped to turn them into revolutionaries. The ...
... he meant by the word nothing more than Colonial Self-Government, but the word rang out with a compelling charm and seemed to satisfy both the Parties. It had been used in Bengal by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar in his stirring book, Desher Katha (in Bengali) and also by Tilak. 94 To the Nationalist it meant nothing short of complete autonomy, free from foreign control. But the compromise arrived at in ...
... On being told who the author was, Surendranath is said to have exclaimed that Sri Aurobindo alone could have written it. 18 The word 'Swaraj' itself had first been used by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar, one of the ablest members of the Bengali revolutionary groups, in his popular biography of Shivaji in Bengali. He also wrote, on Sri Aurobindo's suggestion, Desher Katha, a book giving in overwhelming ...
... History and Geography; English History; and Political Science (Western). He also set examination papers, for instance, Fifth and Seventh Standard papers in History were set by him. Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar taught Bengali at the College. And if we don't speak of Satish Chandra Mukherji, the founder of the Dawn Society, it will be unpardonable. He was the Superintendent of the Bengal National College. ...
... propagate the Swadeshi idea which at that time was only in its infancy and hardly more than a fad of the few. One of the ablest men in these revolutionary groups was a Mahratta named Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar who was an able writer in Bengali (his family had been long domiciled in Bengal) and who had written a popular life of Shivaji in Bengali in which he first brought in the name of Swaraj, afterwards ...
... 61, 62, 103 ,104, 149, 174,214 Indian conception of, 39 parliamentary, 93, 172,214,221 in the West, 103 see also political systems destruction, 21, 91 , 123,124, 128 ,241 means of, 228, 251 Deuskar, Sakharam Ganesh, 40(11) Devil, 143 Dharma (Bengali weekly), 47 dharma, 48(111), 69·70, 15 I, 152, 182 in ancient times, 165 , 177 basis of democracy, 39 India's, 49, 158 see also Sanatana dharma ...
... of destitution comes to 300 million. This is what colonial rule in India was. Towards the end of the 19th century, one person who drew attention to the economic plight was Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar. He was a Bihar-born Maharashtrian (18691912), who spent most of his life in Bengal, and was an excellent teacher and writer in both Marathi and Bengali. An active public worker, his blending of rural ...
... This idea had not struck anyone till then except one or two persons for whom it was more of a whim than anything else. But now there appeared a book called Desher Katha written by Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar who, though he was a Marathi, wrote Bengali very well. It was he who, for the first time, used the word 'Swaraj'. He explained too, with the help of many well-substantiated proofs, how the British ...
... 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, 344ff, 359,361, 368, 370, 399,449 Divina Commedia ("The Divine Comedy'), 92, 663-64 Diwakar ...
... no time became many. At Calcutta Jatin set up his residence at 108C, Upper Circular Road. It became a training ground and the Society's study centre. P. Mitter, Surendranath Tagore, A. Rasul, S. G. Deuskar, Debabrata Bose and others met here every Sunday evening, and discussed revolutionary subjects. Bengal, of course, had secret societies running in its blood. Remember Rajnarain Bose who formed ...
... India's economic life was well documented at the time in Dadabhai Naoroji's Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (1876), in Romesh Dutt's Economic History of India (1901), and in Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar's Desher Katha (1904); the last two books, in particular, had a great influence on the birth of the Swadeshi movement. Page 40 with an alarming rapidity. In some parts of ...
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