Ghose, Lalmohan : (1849-1909), brother of the Manmohan in whose house Sri Aurobindo was born; he was a barrister of Calcutta High Court. Since 1882, the Bengal Press had repeatedly insisted on convening a national conference of educated Indians (see Bannerjea S.N.) along with the idea of education the British public on the eve of general elections to the Parliament found support in other provinces of India. The Bengal group of orators that proceeded to England early in 1885 was reinforced by addition of Chandāvarkar from Bombay & Ramaswamy Mudaliar from Madras. In his speech delivered in England in May, Lalmohan said, “You have given us western education only to show how bitterly we have been wronged in the past, what unjust & offensive distinctions still prevail & what pledges still remain unfulfilled.... The country is ruled by an oligarchy, demoralised by irresponsible power, a selfish & unscrupulous community who are for ever snatching the cup from the very lips of the natives of India. The members of the Civil Service have so cunningly shuffled the political cards that all the trumps & picture cards remain in the hands of the dealer, & the natives of India are nothing but pariahs & outcastes in the land of their birth.” [The Times of India, 4th June, 1885] He was elected president of the 1903 Madras Session of the Congress. He translated Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Bengali epic Meghanādavadha kāvya into English.
... which autocracy might Page 242 creep into any part of the system, were not likely to leave such a glaring defect of freedom uncorrected, if it had ever existed. Mr. Lalmohan Ghose The death of Mr. Lalmohan Ghose removes from the scene a distinguished figure commemorative of the past rather than representative of any living force in the present. His interventions in politics have for many... felicity of style and charm of manner and elocution. Mr. Gokhale has something of the same debating gift, but it is marred by the dryness of his delivery and the colourlessness of his manner. Mr. Lalmohan Ghose possessed the requisite warmth, glow and agreeableness of speech and manner without those defects of excess and exaggeration which sometimes mar Bengali oratory. We hope that his literary remains... forward far ahead of the mass of his contemporaries. It was the lack of steadiness and persistence common enough in men of brilliant gifts, which kept him back in the race. His brother Mr. Manmohan Ghose, a much less variously and richly gifted intellect but a stronger character, commanded by the possession of these very qualities a much weightier influence and a more highly and widely honoured name ...
... Indian mind, displaced as it was from its own orbit by an unnational education. Mr. Morley's outspokenness was welcome to the House? Well, it was tenfold more welcome to his "enemies" in India. Mr. Lalmohan Ghose in one of his more recent speeches, has said: "Dazzled by the meretricious glitter of a tawdry imperialism, conspicuous members of Parliament are now trying to sponge from their slate the teachings ...
... politics he has always led and still leads. The Congress in Bengal is dying of consumption; annually its proportions shrink into greater insignificance; its leaders, the Bonnerjis and Banerjis and Lalmohan Ghoses have climbed into the rarefied atmosphere of the Legislative Council and lost all hold on the imagination of the young men. The desire for a nobler and more inspiring patriotism is growing more ...
... nor in the Bombay Presidency Association, nor in the councils of the wise economists and learned reformers, nor in the brains of the Mehtas and Gokhales, nor in the tongues of the Surendranaths and Lalmohans, nor under the hat and coat of the denationalised ape of English speech and manners. It was born like Krishna in the prison-house, in the hearts of men to whom India under the good and beneficent... when he came. To hope that conciliation will kill Nationalism is to mistake entirely the birth, nature and workings of the new force, nor will either the debating skill of Mr. Gokhale nor all Dr. Ghose's army of literary quotations and allusions convince Englishmen that any such hope can be admitted for a moment. For Englishmen are political animals with centuries of political experience in their blood ...
... "As for the piece in the Daily News about me, it was stuck in simply because it is a Radical paper. We have no family relation to Lalmohan Ghose whatever, but his brother who bears the same name as myself is a great friend of my father's. All the Ghoses came originally from the Punjaub on the Afghan border. The word means "fame", and they were a tribe of the proud warrior caste. But our family... , that is about twenty-four minutes before sunrise, on 15 August 1872. His birth took place in the house of Barrister Monmohun Ghose, in Calcutta.! The name of Monmohun Ghose's wife was Swarnalata, just as it was the name of K.D. Ghose's wife. Dr. Ghose and Monmohun Ghose were very great friends and so were the Swarnalatas. Between 1872 and 1877 Aurobindo apparently stayed at Rangpur, where his... Dr. Ghose, who was then thirty-four, Swarnalata, who was twenty-seven, and the four children, Benoybhushan, Manmohan, Aurobindo and Sarojini. In 1880 Dr. K.D. Ghose returned alone from England to rejoin his service. He left Swarnalata and the children in England. On January 5, a son, Barindra Kumar, was born at Croydon, England. His name is listed in the birth register as "Emmanuel Ghose"! Swarnalata ...
... British rule, Nationalism was already born.... It was not born and did not grow in the Congress Pandal... nor in the brains of the Mehtas and Gokhales, nor in the tongues of the Surendranaths and Lalmohans, nor under the hat and coat of the denationalised ape of English speech and manners. It was born like Krishna in the prison-house, in the hearts of men to whom India under the good and beneficent... made a plea for boycott in his Sanjivani; and on 17 July, a correspondent "G" had strongly advocated boycott in the columns of the Amrita Bazar Patrika. Was "G" really Aurobindo Ghose? Was it Barindra Kumar Ghose? 14 Anyhow, all climaxed in the events of 7 August, and the swadeshi-boycott offensive received the tardy imprimatur of the Congress in December 1906. Sri Aurobindo had thus reason... to our late Vice-Principal Mr. Ghose in ,. present trouble." And a contributor to the Indian Patriot, who signed himself "A.S.M.", asseverated in the course of his eulogy: "Slaves of ease and security, the butterflies of the hour look small and pitiable by his side." The prosecution against the Bande Mataram and its supposed editor, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, pursued a strange career. E ...
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