Garth, Sir Richard : (1820-1903), son of Rev. Richard Garth: Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court 1875-86: knighted 1875: Privy Councillor 1889: wrote A few Plain Truths about India. In 1890, C.R. Das went to London to qualify the ICS. He failed in 1892 & sat again in 1893 & passed 43rd. That year only 42 instead of the 50 as previously announced were taken in. In his letter Sir Richard wrote to senior Mr Das he said: “I tried my best, but the fiery speeches of your son at Oldham have spoiled everything. I could not persuade the India Office.” [Buckland; Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, Hemendranath Das Gupta, Builders of Modern India Series, 1960, 1969, 1977]

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Bande Mataram > By the Way

... found championing the Mahomedan hooligans who, for the present, are the good friends, allies and brothers-in-arms of Anglo-India in its fight against Swadeshi. A certain Mr. Garth, said to be a son of the late Sir Richard Garth, Chief Justice and one of the cheap and numerous tribe of "Friends of India", was the oratorical hero of the occasion. This gentleman was delivered in Mango Lane on Monday of... do not exactly understand this phrase. Does Mr. Garth mean that it is the Mahomedans who are being plundered, their men wounded and injured, their women outraged, while the officials give their assailants a free hand and are busy repressing any attempt at self-defence? That would be the opposite of what the Bengali papers represent. But Mr. Garth then assures the world—which ought by this time... time to be quite dumb with awe—that he, Mr. Garth, is quite satisfied of the absolute falsity of the charges against the local officials. He does not pretend—this easily-satisfied Mr. Garth—that there is a single fact or the smallest fragment of evidence to disprove these charges which the officials impugned have Page 392 not tried and the Anglo-Indian journals have not been able to disprove ...