Ghose, Manmohan : (1844-96), born in an old Kāyastha family in Vikrampur, district Dacca: son of Ram Lochan Ghose, a Subordinate Judge & friend of Raja Rammohan Roy, with whose views he sympathised: educated at the Krishnagar Collegiate School & Presidency College, Calcutta: founded Indian Mirror as a fortnightly 1861 which edited till March 1862: went to England in 1862, stood for the ICS Exam in London 1864 & 1865 but failed: called to the Bar 1866: joined Calcutta High Court as first Indian barrister: delivered series of lectures against the Open Competitive Examinations in London for the ICS: sent to England as delegate from Bengal to speak on Indian questions, 1885: visited England again in 1887, 1890, 1895 sometimes with family: very successful as barrister: became Secretary of the Bethune College 1873: a leader of the Moderates in Calcutta, & a supporter of Pherozshah Mehta: strong advocate of separation of judicial & executive functions of District Officers: Fellow of Calcutta University. [Buckland] A close friend Dr. K.D. Ghose; it was in his house that Sri Aurobindo was born.
... on Manmohan Ghose till all our heads were turned to the strange new-comer on that particular morning is not so improbable as it may seem. But of Ghose's background I scarcely knew anything. His enthusiasm for literature sufficed my curiosity." Manmohan was already well versed in Greek and English literature when he joined St. Paul's School, London. Aravinda A. Ghose and Manmohan Ghose were... Death, a book of poems by Manmohan Ghose. "At the back of the room, behind the rest, sat a young Indian with thick hair falling about his forehead, and dark lustrous eyes. It was he who had startled us with his impassioned tones. Where had he come from? How had he mysteriously joined us? Perhaps I deceive myself, but to my memory this was my first sight of Manmohan Ghose —an unaccountable apparition... un-English! We were not used to such things." The 'apparition', Manmohan Ghose, had entered St. Paul's School in the VII form as a Capitation Scholar. Binyon and Ghose became very close friends as time went on. Their friendship ripened into a lifelong one. And this has paid us a rich dividend. For, through the letters Manmohan wrote to Binyon, we get a wealth of information about the movements ...
... 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... middle name. Dr. Ghose used to send £360 per year for the maintenance of his three sons at Manchester. But even during the first six years of their stay in England, Dr. Ghose was unable to send regular remittances to Mr. Drewett, and so the latter, on his way to Australia, passed through Calcutta and collected his dues from Dr. Ghose. It is not known who took Aurobindo and Manmohan to St. Paul's School... to help or advise us. Our father, Dr. K.D. Ghose of Khulna, has been unable to provide the three of us with sufficient for the most necessary wants, and we have long been in an embarrassed position." ² Manmohan's letters to Laurence Binyon support this statement with a wealth of detail. In a letter of July, 1887, from 49, St. Stephen's Avenue, Manmohan wrote: "My position, by the way, is very ...
... born in England. We shall come to him in due course. "I was born in the lawyer Manmohan's house on Theatre Road," Sri Aurobindo replied in 1940 to a query. Lawyer Manmohan Ghose was no relation of Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose's, but they were such friends that the latter named his second son Manmohan. M. M. Ghose's wife also bore the name of Swarnalata. The two Swarnalatas were bosom friends, and called... asked her "if Dr. Ghose were a Christian and also Mrs. Ghose." Of Darjeeling "Sri Aurobindo remembered," writes Purani, "the roads with golden ferns, and also one or two minor incidents. One was this: 'There was a long dormitory where children used to sleep. Manmohan usually slept near the door. One night someone was late and knocked on the door requesting him to open it. Manmohan replied: I can't... Government of India —which might have added to K. D. 's bitterness against the English. Then in July 1885 Dr. Ghose was reverted to Khulna. He was to remain there for the next eight years, until the end of 1892 when he died ... in harness. It was in Bhagalpur that Benoybhusan and Manmohan Page 107 were born. Calcutta was Sri Aurobindo's birthplace. After him one child, the ...
... differ slightly from the reports as published in Evening Talks. Page 1 K. D. Ghose and Swarnalata had six children, – five sons and a daughter : Benoybhushan, Manmohan, Aurobindo, a son who died in childhood, Sarojini and Barindra Kumar. K. D. Ghose had a brother, Bama Charan Ghose, who served at Bhagalpur as a head clerk. The two brothers did not agree with each other. Page... Family Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose took his degree at the Medical College, Calcutta. His marriage took place in 1864, when he was nineteen years old, to Swarnalata, the eldest daughter of Sj. Rajnarayan Bose. Swarnalata's age was twelve. The marriage was performed according to the rites of Adi Brahmo Samaj, towards which Dr. Ghose had leanings. In 1869 Dr. Ghose went to Britain for further medical... medical studies. He had then two sons, Benoybhushan and Manmohan, whom he left with Swarnalata and a nurse, Miss Paget. He returned in 1871 with a further degree and in all outward manner a completely Anglicised man and an atheist. "Everyone makes the forefathers of a great man very religious-minded, pious, etc. It is not true in my case at any rate. My father was a tremendous atheist." ¹ There ...
... too long at Oxford for this reason, tho' it would be an advantage if I could get a degree." Manmohan Ghose's father was perhaps stern, but he was a reasonable man too. As Sri Aurobindo said, "He had great hopes of his sons, expected us to be Civilians, 1 and yet could be quite reasonable. When Manmohan wrote to him that he wanted to be a poet, my father made no objection; he said there was nothing... remittances from Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose had become irregular, and as time went on they grew increasingly Page 153 rare, till finally they almost stopped. Thus, for years, the three brothers were thrown mostly on their own resources as their father was unable to provide them enough for their most necessary wants. When the question of Manmohan's entering the University arose in... salary of five shillings a week and lodgings in the Club's office at 128, Cromwell Road. They lived there from September 1887 to December 1889. 1 In an undated letter about that time Manmohan describes the office of this Club. "I write to tell you my new address to which we have just moved from St. Stephen's Avenue. I will show it to you some day. It is very different from the old place, but I ...
... Dr. K. D. Ghose said of his eldest son, "Beno will be his father in every line of action. Self-sacrificing but limited in his sphere of action." Sri Aurobindo said of his eldest brother: "He is a very practical man, the opposite of poetic, takes more after my father. He is a very nice man and one can easily get on with him. He had fits of miserliness." And he added, "Manmohan and I used to... at any rate, were living quite a Spartan life," said Sri Aurobindo. "Manmohan was extravagant, if you like," he said with an amused twinkle in his eyes. "When I went to Cambridge, I was introduced to a tailor who made suits for me on credit. When I returned to London, he traced me there and got introduced to Manmohan also. Manmohan got a red velvet suit made —not staring red, but aesthetic. He used... India Government about the arrears that Manmohan had not paid and to the Baroda Maharaja for my arrears. I had paid almost all except £4 5sh. which I thought I was justified in not paying as he had charged double the amount for our suits. The Baroda Maharaja said I had better pay." Oscar Wilde had taken quite a fancy to the young Indian poet, Manmohan. "Mano used to visit him every evening and ...
... ran into a second edition in no time at all. At the Memorial Meeting held after the death of Manmohan Ghose in January 1924 Tagore, in his presidential address, paid him rich tributes. Speaking of his long-standing relationship with the late Manmohan's family he said, "I was in England when Manmohan, Aurobindo and their other brothers arrived with their mother. So I saw them even in their earlier... attainments who gives some culture to Christ Church," he wrote of Manmohan in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1890. "His verses show how quick and subtle are the intellectual sympathies of the oriental mind, and suggest how close is the bond of union that may some day bind India to us by other methods than those of commerce and military strength. Mr. Ghose ought some day to make a name in our literature." Oscar Wilde's... 1878 to late 1880; he was in fact in Manchester in 1879, when the three brothers came there. "I renewed my acquaintance with Manmohan after his return to India —through my own poetry. I was reading my Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat) on the verandah of our Jorasanko house and Manmohan made illuminating comments on the idea and metrical peculiarities of the poem. Even though unacquainted with Bengali, he ...
... made a second voyage to England with his family in 1879. Auro was just seven. Benoybhusan, the eldest son, was twelve years old and Manmohan, the second, nine. Soon after arriving in England, Swarnalata gave birth to her youngest son. He was named Barindra. Dr. Ghose's decision to educate his three sons in England all at the same time was not only unusual but even daring for those days. He could carry... story. Sri Aurobindo was born on August 15, 1872, the third son of Krishna Dhan Ghose and Swarnalata. Krishna Dhan, known in his lifetime as Dr. K.D. Ghose, was then posted as Civil Surgeon at Khulna. Sri Aurobindo was born at Calcutta in the house of Mono Mohun Ghose, a well-known barrister and a great friend of Dr. Ghose. Just as they were friends, so were their wives who had the same name, Swarnalata... night the children had gone to sleep in the dormitory of their school at Darjeeling. Sri Aurobindo's elder brother, Manmohan, had his cot beside the door. A boy was late in returning and began to knock at the door. There was no response from anyone, and the knocking continued. At last Manmohan, enraged, called out, 'I cannot open the door — I am sleeping!' Another incident concerns Rajnarayan, Sri A ...
... able official address Mr. Manmohan Ghose asks himself this very question and answers that the Congress represents the thinking portion of the Indian people. "The delegates present here today" he goes on "are the chosen representatives of that section of the Indian people who have learnt to think, and whose number is daily increasing with marvellous rapidity." Perhaps Mr. Ghose is a little too facile in... feature is the idea implied that because the Congress professes to discharge this duty, it may justly call itself national. Nor is this all; Calcutta comes to the help of Bombay in the person of Mr. Manmohan Ghose, who repeats and elucidates Mr. Mehta's idea. The Congress, he says, asserting the rights of that body to speak for the masses, represents the thinking portion of the Indian people, whose duty... above all a future member of the Viceroy's Council, would never have been a very easy task for a timid man like myself. But when he is reinforced by so respectable and weighty a citizen as Mr. Manmohan Ghose, I really cannot find the courage to persevere. I shall therefore amend the obnoxious phrase and declare that the National Congress may be as national as you please, but it is not a popular body ...
... and freely used their inclination. There were freer, weren't they! 2.Manmohan's younger daughter, Lotika Ghose, B. Litt. (Oxon), was a professor of English in the Bethune College, Calcutta. She edited several books of her father's work. Page 93 Book 1882 has this to report: "After Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose had joined the Bhagalpur Brahmo Samaj it received a strong impetus to work... advanced course of medical studies. 1 He was twenty-five years old and was the father of two sons: Benoybhusan (1867), and Manmohan (19.1.1869). Barin records that when his father first went to England, he put his wife and two sons in the care of his friend Miss Pigott. Dr. Ghose was among the first few Bengalis to go to England after the opening of the Suez Canal, completed by F. de Lesseps a few... Kristodhun Ghose 1 to be House Physician to the Medical College Hospital." Dr. Ghose was twenty years old. Next year. "Orders by the Lt. Governor of Bengal. 20 th April 1866 —The third Grade Sub-Assistant Surgeon Kristo Dhan Ghose to have medical charge of the Dispensary, Bhaugal-pore." The following year, the Lt. Governor of Bengal issued another order on 5 th April: "Baboo Kristodhun Ghose" to become ...
... imagination Manmohan could take his pupils to the inner soul of poetry and make them enjoy its beauty." It was indeed a different Professor Ghose at his desk from the one often seen going up and down the stairs of the College hat in hand, eyes downcast, and wearing an absorbed, unsmiling, and pensive look. No, he did not invite familiarity. Lamented Tagore, "The gift with which Manmohan was born was... mother used to correspond in Bengali written in Roman script." He had married Maloti Bannerjee, a girl of 16, in 1898, and had two daughters —Lotika, the younger one, was born in September 1902. Manmohan found himself a job before long (1895) as Professor of English Literature at Patna College. For the poet-at-heart it was a dull, tiring, ill-paid work. He was transferred to other places, including... Presidency College, Calcutta. "He was very painstaking," recalled Sri Aurobindo. "Most of the professors don't work so hard. I saw his books interleaved and marked and full of notes." At the College Manmohan carved Page 63 out a niche for himself. It was such a treat to hear his lectures on poetry that those who were not in the class passionately envied those who were, and students from ...
... intellectual capacity. You may think that since Dr. Ghose was very well placed in life and had himself taken his sons to England for their education, they would not have to face financial difficulties during their stay there. In actual fact, the situation was very different. It is true that initially they had a fairly easy time at Manchester, for Dr. Ghose used to send £360 a year for them, a sum sufficient... practice. But that was a sort of turning point in my inner life.' This shows how perceptive and sensitive he was, and endowed with an inner strength rare in a boy of that age. In September 1884 Manmohan and Sri Aurobindo were admitted to St. Paul's School, London, as day scholars. This was Sri Aurobindo's first experience of school life in England and it must have opened up new vistas for him, after... used to hold prayers at home with readings from the Bible. At times the eldest brother Benoybhusan, had to perform this duty. One day, before their dinner, the Bible reading had just finished when Manmohan, in a mood of exasperation and mischief, cried out: 'This fellow Moses was rightly served when his people disobeyed him!' This, you can imagine, set the house on fire, for Moses was for the old lady ...
... He somehow traced me there and found Manmohan and canvassed orders from him. Manmohan went in for velvet suits, not staring red but aesthetic, and used to visit Oscar Wilde in them. Then we came away to India but the tailor was not to be deprived of his dues. He wrote to the Government of Bengal and to the Baroda State for recovering the sum from me and Manmohan. I had paid up all my dues and kept £4... London. Late in the evening he came home and told his eldest brother, Benoybhusan, 'I am chucked.' Sometime later Manmohan dropped in and when he heard what had happened, 'he set up a howl as if the heavens had fallen'. Sri Aurobindo himself was quite unperturbed. But it was not only Manmohan who was upset at what Sri Aurobindo had done. Both James Cotton and G.W. Prothero, the senior tutor at Cambridge... official duties Dr. Ghose came across many instances of injustice and harshness to Indians from their English masters. Such treatment was intolerable to his independent character. In one instance, there was an open clash with the English Magistrate of the district in which the doctor was serving. Sometimes reports of misbehaviour and arrogance were published in local newspapers and Dr. Ghose would send the ...
... England if you only go to the right part. I stayed one whole Summer at Mallock Bank, and from there had a splendid walking tour —My brother, I, and another gentleman 1. Collected Poems of Manmohan Ghose, Page 145 A view of the Lake District early this century took the train to Monsel Dale and walked from there into Castleton Valley, slept at a very comfortable... pretty one —for, being a bleak and misty day it came on to rain when we were a mile from it and we had to turn back." There Manmohan, then in his late teens, would wander about, muse, or compose poetry if he so felt inclined. Sri Aurobindo remembered these walks. "Manmohan used to have at times poetic illness," he said with a reminiscent smile. "Once we were walking through Cumberland. We found that... Christ Church College, Oxford; while his friend, Laurence Binyon, went up to Trinity College, Oxford, only the next year, in 1888. Months went by, it was July, M. M. Ghose was now an ex-Pauline, while his younger brother A. A. Ghose was in Class M. VIII and two more years to go before he too would complete his studies at St. Paul's School. But the hols were here! Mano's letter is again from St. Stephen's ...
... praise to Manmohan Ghose? Has he done nothing that could touch Sarojini's level, though in another way? I did not speak of Harin because that was a separate question altogether—besides, whether in criticising or in paying compliments, present company is always supposed to be excepted unless they are specially mentioned, and for this purpose Harin and myself are present company. About Manmohan I said... 1936 On Some Indian Writers of English I should very much value your assurance that, scant though my stock is, I need not feel inferior to the other Indian poets who have written in English—Manmohan Ghose and Harindranath and Sarojini. I don't altogether appreciate your request for being declared by me "not inferior" to other "Indo-English" poets. What have you to do with what others have achieved... over-sensualised decadent that makes for death, and the spiritual which may bring rebirth. At present the decadent tendency may be stronger, but the other is also there. 24 January 1935 Manmohan Ghose I have not read much of my brother's poetry except what he wrote in England and in the early years in India before we ceased to meet. That was very cultured poetry and good in form, but it seemed ...
... not make England his adopted country, as Manmohan did for a time. If there was attachment to a European land as a second country, it was intellectually and emotionally to one not seen or lived in in this life, not England, but France. The steamer by which Aurobindo was to have left England was wrecked near Lisbon. The news came to Dr. Krishnadhan [Ghose] as a stunning blow. He concluded that... on him and he had to take up some appointment soon. There was no question of supporting the family at that time. That happened some time after going to India. [The name "Aurobindo Acroyd Ghose"] Sri Aurobindo dropped the "[Acroyd]" 2 from his name before he left England and never used it again. Page 36 × ...
... Aurobindo, after recounting the above incident to Purani 1. A copy of Alcestis of Euripides, which he used at the School, bears the inscription: 'M. Ghose, L. C. V., Midsummer 1884, Manchester Grammar School.' From M. M. Ghose's Collected Poems, vol. II. Page 129 and others, added: "I felt infinitely relieved and grateful to Dada. 1 We were then entering upon the agnostic... Manchester. For instance, when did he join the Grammar School there? Was he also privately coached by the Drewetts, like his younger brother Mano, before entering Page 127 Manmohan and Benoybhusan (probably with Rev. W. Drewett) in Manchester around 1882 Page 128 the School? Because, they were in Manchester by the second half of 1879, and it was only... a revolutionary movement. In my case it was all human imperfection with which I had to start and feel all the difficulties before embodying the Divine Consciousness." 1. Elder brother (= Manmohan). Page 130 ...
... my extravagance. It pained me to a certain extent, as we were living on such a meagre sum. Manmohan was extravagant, if you like. When I went to Cambridge, I was introduced to a tailor who made suits for me on credit. When I returned to London, he traced me there and got introduced to Manmohan also. Manmohan got a red velvet suit made—not staring red, but aesthetic. He used to go see Oscar Wilde in... his playing the poet dropped off. When Barin and I became politically famous, Manmohan used to say with arrogant pride, "There are only two and a half men in India. The two are my brothers and the half is Tilak." Manmohan and I used to quarrel pretty often but I got on very well with my eldest brother. Once Manmohan said to me, "I hear you have been living with Madhavrao Jadhav year after year... that tailor wrote to the Indian Government about the arrears that Manmohan had not paid and to the Baroda Maharaja for my arrears. I paid everything except four pounds, five shillings, which I thought I was justified in not paying as he had charged double the amount for our suits. The Baroda Maharaja said I had better pay. Manmohan used to have poetic illness at times. Once we were walking through ...
... But even the moon has its spots, and in Wordsworth the spots are of a fairly considerable magnitude. Manmohan Ghose too had mentioned to us these defects. Much of Wordsworth is didactic and rhetoric, that is, of the nature of preaching, hence prosaic and non-poetical although couched in verse. Ghose used to say that even the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality which is so universally admired is... APPENDIX Wordsworth I did not come to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth in my school days, it happened in college, and to a large extent thanks to Professor Manmohan Ghose. In our school days, the mind and heart of Bengali students were saturated with the poetry of Tagore: In the bower of my youth the love-bird sings, Wake up, O darling, wake; ...
... work on. A judge's, mind is different. NIRODBARAN (after Sri Aurobindo's walk) : Did you say Theatre Road was your village? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, I was born there in the house of the lawyer Manmohan Ghose. It was No. 4, I think. NIRODBARAN: Dilip says that that brought about his contact with you. (Laughter) PURANI: Have you read that criticism by Joad of Gerald Heard? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes ...
... But even the moon has its spots, and in Wordsworth the spots are of a fairly considerable magnitude. Manmohan Ghose too had mentioned to us these defects. Much of Wordsworth is didactic and rhetoric, that is, of the nature of preaching, hence prosaic and non-poetical although couched in verse. Ghose used to say that even the Ode on the Intimations of Immortality which is so universally admired is... Appendix I WORDSWORTH* I did not come to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth in my school days, it happened in college, and to a large extent thanks to Professor Manmohan Ghose. In our school days, the mind and heart of Bengali students were saturated with the poetry of Tagore: . In the bower of my youth the love-bird sings, Wake up, O darling, wake; ...
... From old issues of The Modern Review (courtesy Patrice Marot) 23 , 54, 214 , 425, 475, 557 12 Krishna Dhan Ghose, from Sukumar Mitra's article on Sri Aurobindo in Basumati, Phalgun 1358 38 Bankim Chandra Chatterji 59 Sarojini Ghose (courtesy Sri Lab Kumar Bose and the late Sri Nirmal Ranjan Mitra) 66 Sri Aurobindo at Deoghar, c.1894 (detail from a group... Chatterjee) 76 Rajnarain Bose's house (courtesy Sri Lab Kumar Bose and the late Sri Nirmal Ranjan Mitra) 86 Bombay's Victoria Terminus early this century (from an old postcard) 91 Manmohan with his two daughters (courtesy Smt , Lahori Chatterjee) 118 Sri Aurobindo and Mrinalini (from Abhay Singh's collection) 172 Kashmir's Dal Lake early this century (from an old postcard) ...
... act of an independent spirit. The Collector of Rangpur, Edward George Glazier was, as we had occasion to see, a very close friend of Dr. Ghose's. He had a clergyman cousin, Reverend William Drewett, who lived in Manchester. It was to him that Dr. Ghose brought his family. He put the three boys in the care of the Drewetts. Rev. Drewett was Congregational priest of the Stockport (now Octagonal)... home. He reached India in August 1879, just when his little Ara was completing his seventh year on this earth. Barindra Kumar Ghose, the revolutionary-to-be, was born on 5 January 1880. His mother registered her last son's name at Corydon as EMANUEL MATTHEW GHOSE. "Matthew was her doctor's name," explains Barin, "Emanuel was because I was born just a few days after Christ, and Barin was because... prey to storms. "Storms came alternately. A storm of joy Page 120 Krishna Dhan, Swarnalata, and their four children (left to right: Benoybhusan, Sarojini, Aurobindo and Manmohan) in England in 1879 Page 121 when she would laugh and laugh, followed by a storm of anger when she would pace about the room like a caged tiger, muttering curses under her breath ...
... stood 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... 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 years... 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 will ...
... it.’ 8 But the Drewetts emigrated to Australia, travelling via Calcutta to collect the arrears K.D. Ghose owed them for the boarding, lodging and education of his sons. The three brothers, under the tutelage of grandmother Drewett, moved to London. There, in September 1884, Manmohan and Aravinda were admitted to St Paul’s School, one of the best schools of its time. ‘Impressed by Aurobindo’s... poverty, for K.D. Ghose sent his sons hardly any money. ‘When they outgrew their old overcoats they could not buy new ones. At home there was no coal for the fire and hardly any food. During a whole year Aurobindo and Benoybhusan had to survive on “a slice or two of sandwich bread and butter and a cup of tea in the morning and in the evening a penny saveloy [a kind of sausage]” … Manmohan by this time had... One: Convergent Roads The Mother (biography) 5: Aurobindo Ghose In my view, a man’s value does not depend on what he learns or his position or fame or what he does, but on what he is and inwardly becomes. 1 – Sri Aurobindo Aravinda Akroyd Ghose was born on 15 August 1872 in Calcutta, at 4 Theatre Road. 91 ‘Aravinda,’ at the time an uncommon ...
... scrutiny. But Mr. Manmohan Ghose at least is a sober speaker; and if we have deserted his smooth but perhaps rather tedious manner for a more brilliant style of oratory, now at any rate, when the specious orator fails us, we may well return to the rational disputant. But we shall be agreeably disappointed to find that this vivid statement about the teaching of History is Mr. Ghose's own legitimate offspring... advisable to scrutinize Mr. Ghose's light-hearted statement; and if the policy he advocates is actually stamped with the genuine consensus of all peoples in all ages, then we shall very readily admit that there is no reason why the masses should not be left in their political apathy. But if it is quite otherwise and we cannot discover more than one precedent of importance, then Mr. Ghose and the Congress chairmen... offspring and not the coinage of Mr. Mehta's heated fancy: indeed, the latter has done nothing but Page 27 convey it bodily into his own address. "History teaches us" says Mr. Ghose "that in all ages and all countries it is the thinking classes who have led the unthinking, and in the present state of our society we are bound not only to think for ourselves, but also to think for those who ...
... acknowledges that he owed his own love for children to his father and to Rajnarain. In 1924, after the death of Sri Aurobindo's brother Manmohan, Rabindranath delivered the Memorial Address. "First, I looked upon poet Manmohan Ghose's maternal grandfather as one very near to me. It was from him that in my boyhood I first heard an interpretation of English literature, and he it was who... river in its course Dives into ocean, there its strength abides Not less because with vastness wed and works Unnoticed in the grandeur of the tides. Aurobindo Ghose. Page 86 ...
... Aravind Ghose. (2)His Highness is pleased to note that he has found Mr. Ghose a very useful and capable young man. With a little more of regularity and punctual habits he can be of much greater help; and it is hoped that Mr. Ghose will be careful in future not to injure his own interests by any lack of these useful qualities. (3)The Minister should try to make a good use of Mr. Ghose's abilities... 1 This is very characteristic of Mejdada ; it may even be described in one word as Manomaniac. Of course he thinks he is stopping your pension and that this will either 1. Manmohan's wife Malati. Manmohan was then posted at Purulia, in the district of Chota Nagpur. Page 130 bring you to reason or effectually punish you. But the main question is, 'What is to be done now... talents. (4)The Minister should also suggest from time to time the different uses to which Mr. Ghose's abilities can be Page 140 advantageously put. The Huzur will also occasionally direct the uses to be made of Mr. Ghose's services. (5) If convenient Mr. Ghose's services can be utilised in the Baroda College, only care should be taken that his interests do not suffer ...
... University in 1900, then continued his college studies at Dacca. His 'Mejodada' Manmohan, who was then professor at Dacca University, offered him hospitality. Barin then fancied the career of a farmer for himself. It did not work out. After a few meanders he opened a tea stall at Patna, 'near the Patna College: 'B. Ghose's TEA STALL Half-anna cup, rich in cream' Page 238 ... ice cream, as both 'Ghose Saheb' and her brother Subodh Mullick were there. The ice cream needed time to set. So Subodh said, "Come, let's play a game of card." Smilingly, Ghose Saheb replied, "Yes, let's. But I don't know your modern games of bridge or poker. Ages ago, in my boyhood I played whist a few times with old people." Lilabati explained the basics of the game to Ghose Saheb who was her... shoes in worse condition, looking like a vagabond," narrates Barin in his Bengali autobiography. "The butler was amazed to see me. He was hard put to it to believe that this was 'the brother of Ghose Saheb.' He dubiously ushered me into the fine drawing room near the portico, and disappeared upstairs to announce my arrival. Almost immediately Sejda hurriedly came down the grand staircase and spirited ...
... 3 . Esha was Dilipda’s niece. 4 . Latika Ghose, daughter of Manmohan Ghose, Sri Aurobindo’s second brother. 5 . Sachin, most likely Dilipda’s cousin. 6 . Tajdar Begum was a sadhika of the Ashram who came from the Royal family of Hyderabad. She was the step-mother of Dara and Rene. 7 . Gyanprakash Ghose was a well-known tabla player of Bengal renowned for ...
... quality of A. Ghose's lectures. "Mr. Arvind Ghose," said N. K. Dikshit carrying his thoughts back to his college days, "used to grace the Debating Society's meetings with his presence. Once or twice he was accompanied by Mr. K. G. Deshpande, B.A., Bar-at-law Rarely they addressed the meeting but when they did it was really an intellectual feast that seemed to us. Later on Ghose was appointed... Students It was the evening of 30 december 1938, barely a month after Sri Aurobindo's accident on 24 November. Those attending upon him stood around his bed. The talk turned to his brother Manmohan as a hard-working professor. Sri Aurobindo confirmed that generally the professors don't work so hard. Then, looking at Purani, he said, "I was not so conscientious as a professor." Purani begged... from the views of the writer. You should think for yourself and cultivate a habit of writing and in this way you will be the master of your own style." That appears to be the advice Professor A. Ghose generally gave to his students. Records R. S. Dalai, "He was revered by all, but being by nature shy and reserved was not easily accessible. His reading of English Texts was very simple and did not ...
... June 1910, the Chief Presidency Magistrate of Calcutta had pronounced the article 'To My Countrymen' as seditious. He sentenced Manmohan Ghose, the printer of the Karmayogin, to six months' rigorous imprisonment. Two weeks later, the Magistrate directed that Babu Arabindo Ghose "should be proclaimed an absconder Page 171 and that his property should be attached." Thereupon, the government... clarify later. He sent a letter to the paper The Hindu of Madras, which it published the next day, on 8 November 1910. BABU AUROBINDO CHOSE AT PONDICHERRY A Statement Babu Aurobindo Ghose writes to us from 42, Rue de Pavilion, Pondicherry, under date November 7, 1910: "I shall be obliged if you will allow me to inform every one interested in my whereabouts through your journal... by the strong reaction shown by Members of Parliament back home. "I have been somewhat exercised," he confessed to Morley on 14 April 1910, "by the questions in the House of Commons about Arabindo Ghose. He is the most dangerous man we have to deal with at present and he has great influence with the student class____ In the meantime Arabindo has disappeared and it will be very unfortunate ...
... the review of an annual of English literature. It is a symposium of many writers of the British Empire. From India four names have been chosen—one Kashi Prasad Ghose, Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and yourself . Do you know this Kashi Prasad Ghose? SRI AUROBINDO: No. Who is he? NIRODBARAN: Only poets have been included, and the Indian selection has been made by an Indian professor. SRI AUROBINDO:... AUROBINDO: Then I don't understand the rationale of the selection. Sarojini is alright. But, except for a few things, Toru Dutt does not come to much. And, if Toru can be included, surely Harin and Manmohan ought to be. They are better writers than she. If Romesh Dutt was still alive, he would have protested against his exclusion. He could have said, "If Toru, why not Romesh too?" NIRODBARAN: The ...
... Part One: Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra Alfassa Beyond Man Chapter Three: A Backdoor to Spirituality The India in which he arrived from Great Britain must have looked like a cultural desert to Aurobindo Ghose. The modern literature of the regional languages was still in its infancy (except in Bengal) and the literary production in English was of poor quality... quality. Far away now were the lush cultural pastures of Cambridge and London, where Aurobindo’s eldest brother, the poet Manmohan, had befriended Laurence Binyon, Stephen Philips and Oscar Wide, the last calling him ‘an Indian panther in evening brown.’ Small wonder that Aurobindo spent a substantial part of his salary on crates of English books ordered from Bombay and which, wherever he settled down... his unconditional surrender at the beginning, as a human being he hardly had any part in his own spiritual unfolding. Higher powers in him had taken up the reins of his destiny; out of Aurobindo A. Ghose was growing Sri Aurobindo. After his arrival in Pondicherry, Sri Krishna sketched out for him the lines of his further growth, ‘the map of my spiritual progress’. Between 1912 and 1920 Sri Aurobindo ...
... refuge in Theosophy!" 16 VIII. Manmohan's way of writing poetry: "I liked Manmohan's poetry well enough but I never thought it to be great. He was a conscientious artist of word and rhyme, almost painfully careful about technique. "Virgil wrote nine lines every day and spent the whole morning rewriting and rerewriting them out of all recognition. Manmohan did better. He would write five... came across any piece of excellent or vigorous writing in English he would jump and loudly proclaim, Aurobindo Ghose! All the legal and illegal, the organised activities or unexpected consequences of the movement were the doings of Aurobindo Ghose! And when they are the doings of Aurobindo Ghose then, even when lawfully admissible, they must contain hidden illegal intentions and potentialities.... If my... over Mr. Would-you-ah! and Mr. Manoeu(vre) bhai, the said Would-you-ah and Manoeu(vre) bhai must also get Rs. 50 each, and 'as Mr. Ghose has done good work for me, I give him Rs. 90.' The beautiful logical connection of the last bit with what goes before, dragging Mr. Ghose in from nowhere and everywhere, is so like the Maharajah that the story may possibly be true..." 11 III. Maulvi Sams-ul-Alam's ...
... order to be at once brushed aside. Nor did the author on whom Murry passed judgment Show such , Indianness. But the fact is significant that Murry jibbed at the poems of Manmohan Ghose on the score of temperament , Manmohan Ghose had been taken to England in his early boyhood and had ' passed through an English school and university. Reading him, Murry praised his knowledge of English verse-technique ...
... L Lalan the Fakir 84 Laocoon 18 London 10 Lombards 50 M Macbeth 19 Madhuchchanda 8 Madhyama 13 Mahabharata 103, 104 Mamata 9 Manmohan Ghose, Prof. 92,102 Mantra 25 Manu 5 Marcellus 23, 24 Matthew Arnold 102 Medhatithi Kanwa 8 Michael Angelo 19 Milton 9, 16 Mitra 1, 4, 5, 31 Montevideo 55 ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Four 21 Steal the Boy From Sri Aurobindo and Manmohan we have understood clearly enough their father's financial difficulties. Yet it is on record that from 1884, when Dr. Ghose was first posted at Khulna as the Chief Medical Officer of the District, he was drawing a salary of Rs.625. By 1890 (by then he was also... own establishment at Khulna to keep up in the European style he favoured. Apart from the main house where K. D. lived —a thatched cottage set 1. A look at the records reveals that Dr. K. D. Ghose had completed nineteen years of service by July 1892. By then he was holding several offices: "Drainage Commissioner, Member of Municipal Board; In-charge of Intermediate District Jail of Khoolna; Honorary... tandem when the doctor made his daily rounds; and, of course, quarters for a bevy of servants he employed. A big front garden full of smiling flowers nodded cheerfully to the doctor's patients. Dr. Ghose bestowed his personal attention on the animals and the garden instead of leaving their care entirely in the hands of his retinue. In that he was different from most of his contemporaries. But it ...
... AUROBINDO: He may have got that right. He says, "The place where Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta has not been fix yet. Nobody has tried to fix it, and it should be done." I was born in the lawyer Manmohan Ghose's house on Theatre Road. (Then Sri Aurobindo began to read and put marks in various places. He stopped at a place.) Have I said anything against immolation of the Satis anywhere? PURANI: Not ...
... II Sri Aurobindo was born around 5 a.m., that is, about twenty-four minutes before sunrise, at the house of Dr. Krishnadhan's friend. Barrister Manmohan Ghose in Theatre Road, 10 Calcutta, on 15 August 1872. Benoy Bhushan and Manmohan had preceded Sri Aurobindo, who was thus the third son of Dr. Krishnadhan and Swarnalata Devi. The time of unfolding dawn, an hour before sunrise: ... eminent Sanskrit scholar. The Ghoses of Konnagar were a no less distinguished family than the Mitras. Perhaps all the Ghoses "came originally from the Punjab on the Afghan border. The word means 'fame', and they were a tribe of the proud warrior caste". 1 Krishnadhan Ghose was born in this family about the year 1845, his parents being Kaliprasad Ghose and Kailasabasini Devi, a lady known... darkly lurks... 5 When Krishnadhan Ghose left Calcutta for Great Britain in 1869 to undergo a course of advanced medical studies, it was his father-in-law's earnest wish that the young sojourner in the West would not allow himself to be too easily dazzled and denationalised by the civilisation of the Occident † Nevertheless, when Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose returned to India in 1871 with a further ...
... reticent. I used to sit by him and had the natural advantage of studying some of the remarkable traits of his spiritual life at close quarters." He also mentions meeting Poet Manmohan Ghose at Subodh Mullick's house. Manmohan was often accompanied by one of his students, Sailendranath Mitra. The latter was wonderstruck to see how even in the thick of Sri Aurobindo's political activities the two brothers ...
... for dinner. A Japanese artist, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose and some other prominent people were present. Tagore visited the Sanjivani office now and then where he occasionally met Sri Aurobindo. Manmohan began his service as Professor of English at Patna and then went over to Dacca where he remained during 1906. He used to come to Calcutta occasionally, and though he used to keep himself away from... supporters. A company was projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sunder joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had to retire, I don't remember whether in November or December... the country and in the estimation of Englishmen, a letter written by Mr. Ratcliffe, the then editor of the Statesman of Calcutta, to the Manchester Guardian will make it clear: "We know Aurobindo Ghose only as a revolutionary nationalist and editor of a flaming newspaper which struck a ringing new note in Indian daily journalism. "It was in 1906, shortly after Curzon's retirement, that Sri Aurobindo ...
... Western scholars. Yet the subject-matter and thought of the major portion of these poems is entirely Indian. What then made Professor Spiegelberg make this remark? Laurence Binyon speaking of Manmohan Ghose in his Introduction to Songs of Love and Death remarks about the latter: "What struck me most was his enthusiastic appreciation of Greek poetry, not so much the books prescribed in school as... linguist Harinath De and a pupil of Manmohon Ghose, once told me how he often accompanied the latter to the house of Raja Subod Mullick where Sri Aurobindo was staying and how even in the thick of Sri Aurobindo's political period the two brothers happily reading and discussing Greek Poetry would be entirely lost to a sense of time. Manmohon Ghose's poetry mainly lyrical in inspiration has an... many of us are attracted to arts and literature remote from our own tradition and just because of qualities in them which these have not. Why should not an Indian feel a parallel attraction? Manmohon Ghose never forgot the Greeks and to the end his delight was in European Literature and European Art." That Sri Aurobindo (a more brilliant classical scholar) shared this appreciation of Greek Art ...
... these, but occasionally in his talks with us also Sri Aurobindo spoke of his teaching days. His brother Manmohan had likewise become a Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. His teaching too was greatly admired but there was a difference between them. Sri Aurobindo told us: 'Manmohan was very painstaking.... I saw that his books used to be inter-leaved, marked and full of notes. I was... the youngest brother was fourteen years of age and Sarojini a couple of years older. The eldest brother Benoybhusan, had returned to India by then to make a career in the Cooch Behar State Service. Manmohan had just completed his studies at Oxford and earned his M.A. degree; he would be returning shortly to India to distinguish himself as an outstanding Professor of English in Government Service. Amongst... impression on all those who came to know him in the College. Dr. C.R. Reddy, a colleague, recalls: had the honour of knowing him.... Dr. Clark, the Principal, remarked to me, "So you met Aurobindo Ghose. Did you notice his eyes? There is mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond. If Joan of Arc heard heavenly voices, Aurobindo probably sees heavenly visions."' Whilst teaching ...
... metre? At school? SRI AUROBINDO: No. They don't teach metre at school. I began to read and read and I wrote by a sense of the sound. I am not a prosodist like X. NIRODBARAN: Had your brother Manmohan already become a poet when you started writing? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. He, Laurence Binyon, Stephen Phillips and Arthur Cripps, who did not come to much in poetry afterwards, brought out a book in... and see everything clearly. That reminds me of a compliment given to my eyes by Sir Edward Baker, Governor of Bengal. He visited me in Alipore Jail and told Charu Dutt, "Have you seen Aurobindo Ghose's eyes?" "Yes, what about them?" asked Charu. "He has the eyes of a madman!" Charu took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad but a Karmayogi! PURANI: Nevinson, the correspondent... nice place. She found that instead of converting them to her view they began to look askance at her. Lord Minto said that he could not rest his head on his pillow until he had crushed Aurobindo Ghose. He feared that I would start the revolutionary movement again, and assassinations were going on at that time. But there was no ban. On the contrary Lord Carmichael sent somebody to persuade me to ...
... thick and soft bedding. Baroda being near a desert, both summer and winter are severe there; but even in the cold of January, I never saw Aurobindo use a quilt Page 90 Manmohan with his two daughters: Mrinalini (standing) and Lotika (seated) — a cheap, ordinary rug did duty for it. A plain blue woolen wrapper was his winter wear. As long as I lived with him, he... clad in coarse Ahmedabad dhoti and close-fitting jacket, his feet shod in old-fashioned slippers with upturned toes, a face sparsely dotted with pockmarks, 1 this slim young man was Sriman Aurobindo Ghose, a living fountain of French, Latin and Greek? I would not have been more surprised — and disappointed —had someone pointed to the hillocks of Deoghar and said, 'Look, there stand the Himalayas!' However... post-office, but remained buried in a notebook. Aurobindo used to say the less one reveals about oneself the better." D. K. Roy wondered, "Perhaps that is why he spoke so little." But laughed a lot. For A. Ghose was a man of few words but of uproarious laughter. "He never favoured dressing himself up, he was unacquainted with luxury. I never saw him change his ordinary clothes even while going to the royal ...
... few more taxes, a few more rash interferences of Government, a few more stages of starvation, and the turbulence that is now religious will become social. I am speaking to that class which Mr. Manmohan Ghose has called the thinking portion of the Indian community: well, Page 50 let these thinking gentlemen carry their thoughtful intellects a hundred years back. Let them recollect what causes ...
... already written to you about Akhil and on the 10th Manmohan telegraphed and wrote to Chittagong instructing him not to go to Bhawanipur but to collect the money and as soon as he had done this and sufficiently recovered from fever, to write and he would receive a call from here. It appears from your telegram today that he started before receiving Manmohan's telegram. I can give no other instructions than... only be done by myself aided closely by those like you who are being or will in future be trained directly under me in my spiritual discipline. AUROBINDO GHOSE Arya Office, Pondicherry. 18th November 1922. (Script Barindra Kumar Ghose.) Dear Barin, I waited for your letter in order to know precisely what portions Chitaranjan wanted to publish and why. It turns out to be as I said, but... have written in the letter. But I hope he will understand why the publication of it does not recommend itself to me. Pondicherry. 1st December 1922. AUROBINDO GHOSE My dear Barin, I have read carefully Jyotish Ghose's letter and I think the best thing is first to explain his present condition as he describes it. For he does not seem to me to understand the true causes and the meaning ...
... for Sarojini's education at Banki-pore. The two elder brothers Benoybhushan and Manmohan who had returned from England were earning also but they rendered no help to the family. When asked about this Sri Aurobindo said, "Dada is in Coochbehar state service and so he has to maintain a certain high standard of living. Manmohan is married and marriage is an expensive luxury!" In the autumn of 1898 Sri... granted the request. Sri Aurobindo's pay was raised to Rs.360. Unlike his brother Manmohan (also a professor in English) Sri Aurobindo never prepared himself for the class with elaborate notes. About his career as a professor Sri Aurobindo said in the course of a talk: "I was not so conscientious a professor as Manmohan. I never used to look at the notes and sometimes my explanations did not agree... left, sank off the coast of Portugal near Lisbon, Dr. K-.D. Ghose learned about this accident and concluded that Sri Aurobindo had been drowned. The shock was so great that he had a heart attack and died repeating Sri Aurobindo's name. An account of Dr. K .D. Ghose's death by Brajendranath De published in 1954 is reproduced here: "Dr. Ghose believed up to the very end, that his son had been admitted ...
... Rajangam, Timpati, Khitish, Nolinida, Satyen, Kanai, Bejoy, Purani and Nagaratnam (a local devotee) Centre: Punamchand, Champaben, Mrs. Kodandaraman, Mr. Kodandaraman Bottom: Champaklal, Moni, Amrita, Manmohan. Part V, "Talks and Interviews with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother", contains advice to sadhaks on various subjects. How can one know when he meets his psychic mate? Did Buddha live in the Supermind... best. 21 January 1960 The Mother The Mother with Champaklal and Kamala Part IV, "Correspondence with Early Disciples", contains letters by Sri Aurobindo written to Barindra Kumar Ghose and other early disciples. They give an intimate picture of the early days of the Ashram and provide details about Sri Aurobindo's sadhana between 1920 and 1924. These letters show that Sri Aurobindo ...
... which Sri Aurobindo later deleted. They are reproduced here 1 Manmohan Ghose's letters to Tagore are reproduced and discussed in Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research , volume 12 (1988), pp. 86–87, 89–91. Page 693 from the manuscript: To my brother Manmohan Ghose these poems are dedicated. Tale tuum nobis carmen... brother Manmohan wrote in a letter to Rabindranath Tagore: "My brother . . . has just published a volume of poems at Baroda." This book evidently is Songs to Myrtilla . In another letter Manmohan tells Tagore: "Aurobinda is anxious to know what you think of his book of verses." This second letter is dated 24 October 1894, but the year clearly is wrong. Manmohan had not even returned... was not published in that collection because the file of the daily Bande Mataram was not then available.) Later the poem was independently ascribed to Sri Aurobindo by Hemendra Prasad Ghose, another Bande Mataram editor and writer, who was in a way responsible for its composition. In his report on the session of the Bengal Provincial Conference held in Behrampore in 1907, Hemendra ...
... already written to you about Akhil and on the 10th Manmohan telegraphed and wrote to Chittagong instructing him not to go to Bhowanipore but to collect the money and as soon as he had done this and sufficiently recovered from fever, to write and he would receive a call from here. It appears from your telegram today that he started before receiving Manmohan's telegram. I can give no other instructions than... kept steadily working on men, forces and circumstances until the possible success is achieved. Aurobindo P.S. The answer to Jyotish Ghose's letter will go later. [3] Pondicherry 9th December 1922 Dear Barin, I have read carefully Jyotish Ghose's letter and I think the best thing is first to explain his present condition as he describes it. For he does not seem to me to understand... I learn from your post card today that Kanai and the others are at Krishnagore. Please let me know your address there so that I may be sure, whenever necessary, of making a direct communication. Manmohan is writing today to Jogesh at Chittagong to take charge of Krishnashashi. He has already cared for and Page 351 almost cured another in the same condition. Let us hope he will equally ...
... signed by Sri Aurobindo. So, confident of success, the Government launched a prosecution and on April 4, 1910, warrants of arrest were issued against Sri Aurobindo, writer of 'To My Countrymen' and Manmohan Ghosh, publisher and printer of the Karmayogin. Once again, it is a remarkable coincidence that the warrant against Sri Aurobindo should be issued on the very day he landed safely in Pondicherry... news from Calcutta was far from favourable. In June 1910, the Karrnayogin sedition case had come up for hearing before the Chief Presidency Magistrate. In the absence of Sri Aurobindo, the printer Manmohan Ghosh (no relation of Sri Aurobindo) was the main accused. The Magistrate found him guilty of the charge and sentenced him to six month's' imprisonment. However, in November there was a dramatic... the appeal against the order of the Chief Presidency Magistrate had been heard by the High Court and that on November 7 it had delivered a most favourable judgement, setting aside the conviction of Manmohan Ghosh and ordering his release. As a result, the warrant against Sri Aurobindo stood withdrawn and his assets could no longer be seized. This was the Government's third attempt to incarcerate Sri ...
... please don't come back till tomorrow morning." Turning to the Durwan, he ordered, "Lock the gate at 10 p.m. Ghose Saheb is not coming back tonight." Next morning, quite early, a servant came upstairs and said to Subodh, "Ghose Saheb wants to know, sir, if you are all coming down to tea." "Ghose Saheb? When did he come back?" "He returned about 11 p.m." We all trooped downstairs. There he sat in his... not allow our friend to go to jail, Sir. There were one or two papers of a damaging kind, which we destroyed in good time. But, this is only the beginning! Your poem will be justified in the end." Manmohan, Sri Aurobindo's brother, laughed, "Sir, this man, Charu, is always saying - we are out to kill, not to offer ourselves to the demon!" In his now famous letters to his wife, Aurobindo made... had come to me in Thana on a short holiday. A dark, dull, drizzly evening; we had nothing particular to do and were amusing ourselves with a little saloon rifle. My wife said to Sri Aurobindo, "Come, Ghose Saheb, take a hand." He would not at first agree, giving the excuse that he had never touched a gun and that he knew nothing about shooting. As we refused to let him off, he picked up the rifle at last ...
... into the trap. The warrant of arrest was suspended for a while, but the bureaucracy, having presumably learned the wrong end of the lesson of the Bande Mataram case of 1907, decided to prosecute Manmohan Ghose, the printer of the Karmayogin, for the publication of the seditious article (the open letter of 25 December) contributed to the paper by Sri Aurobindo. The author himself having made a flight... ": ...so successfully has the noise of the coming coup d'état been circulated that the rumour of it comes to us from a distant comer of Bihar. It appears that the name of Sj. Aurobindo Ghose crowns the police list of those who are to be spirited away to the bureaucratic Bastilles.... The Government ought to make up its mind one way or the other, and the country should know, whether they... of the young men to Sister Nivedita, requesting her in a note to take up the editorship of the Karmayogin in his absence. Preceded by Ramachandra, and followed at some discreet distance by Biren Ghose and Suresh Chakravarti (Moni), he walked to the river-side and reached the Ganga Ghat in about ten minutes' time. A boat was immediately engaged, and Sri Aurobindo boarded it, and it made for Chandernagore; ...
... 237 Ghose, Barindra Kumar, 29, 30, 62ff, 189, 192ff, 195, 208, 211, 217, 219, 229, 266m, 274, 275-76, 281, 284, 288, 289, 290, 298fn, 320, 329ff, 523, 531, 537, 574, 763 Ghose, Benoy Bhushan, 28, 29, 31, 35, 36, 45,49 Ghose, Biren, 367 Ghose, Hemendra Prasad, 222, 324, 763 Ghose, Krishnadhan, 25ff, 33,35ff, 183,192; death of, 45ff Ghose, Manomohan,... 28,29,3 1ff, 35,43,46, 49,192,223,695 Ghose, N. N., 255ff, 258-59 Ghose, Sarojini, 29, 49, 66, 192, 211, 219, 235,308,312,324,326 Ghose, Sisirkumar, 690 Ghose, Sudhir, 722 Ghose (Ghosh), Surendra Mohan, 286fn, 701-02, 71 1ff, 728, 733, 754, 762, 763 Ghose, Rash Behari, 225,226, 263-64,267, 270,292, 295 Ghoshal, Saraladevi (Chaudhurani)... 52; on his father Krishnadhan, 26-27; birth, 28; name, 28, 30, 38; at the Darjeeling School, 28; at Manchester, 30ff; time of privation, 31; Senior Classical Scholarship, 31; holidays with Manmohan, 32ff; success in ICS examinations, 33; at King's College, 33ff; Oscar Browning on, 33-34; member of Indian Majlis and 'Lotus & Dagger', 34,37,183,281; 'Riding Test', 36ff; rejection from ICS, 37; ...
... already written to you about Akhil and on the 10th Manmohan telegraphed and wrote to Chittagong instructing him not to go to Bhawanipur but to collect the money and as soon as he had done this and sufficiently recovered from fever, to write and he would receive a call from here. It appears from your telegram today that he started before receiving Manmohan's telegram. I can give no other instructions than... or with my approval. It can only be done by myself aided closely by those like you who are being or will in future be trained directly under me in my spiritual discipline. Aurobindo Ghose [Script Barin Kumar Ghose.] 1 December 1922 Pondicherry, 1st December 1922. Dear Barin, I waited for your letter in order to know precisely what portions Chittaranjan wanted to publish and why... what I have written in the letter. But I hope he will understand why the publication of it does not recommend itself to me. Aurobindo Ghose 9 December 1922 Pondicherry, 9th December 1922. My dear Barin, I have read carefully Jyotish Ghose's letter and I think the best thing is first to explain his present condition as he describes it. For he does not seem to me to understand the ...
... the accused, Manmohan Ghose, printer, Page 354 personally had no wish to move the High Court against his conviction, as he feared an enhancement of the sentence, and the appeal appears to be preferred in the interests of Arabinda Ghose at the instance of Girija Sundar Chakravarty, former manager of this paper. It is believed that if, by any chance, Manmohan Ghose should be acquitted... writer with a facile pen (such as Arabinda Ghose) to publish Sedition with impunity in the Bengals..." Under the date, 5th (January?) a document reads as follows: Page 355 "The Chief Presidency Magistrate issued a warrant for the arrest of Arabinda Ghose under Section 124-A.I.P.C. The warrant remains unexecuted owing to Ghose's whereabouts not been known." It appears... considered the article clearly seditious. Whereabouts of Aravinda Ghose unknown to Government of India. But it is rumoured that he is still in hiding in Calcutta." Another document says, "...Arabinda is reported to be in Pondicherry, but it is not certain. Papu Rao wired again yesterday (13.4.1910) from Madras - Arabinda Ghose is certainly here. Ajit Singh is also said to be here. Both intending ...
... linguistic structure of English, formalistic, thematic, psychological and cultural matters of India. There is an important document that testifies to this fact: a letter written to his elder brother, Manmohan Ghose. He wrote this letter, says he, "only to justify, or at least define my standpoint; perhaps also a little to reassure myself in the line of poetical art I have chosen." 11 The influence... 10 He certainly knew some of it in translation, but poetry cannot really be known except when it is read in the original language. "Supplement, SABCL, Vol. 27, p. 148. 12 Perhaps Manmohan Ghose was thinking of the poems of Meredith, Swinburne and Stephen Phillips. Sri Aurobindo himself has recognised the influence of these poets on his early poetic formation. He even says that the af... Sri Aurobindo was composing a poem on Savitri and Satyavan. However there is a strong probability of its being true when we see in what glowing terms he writes about Savitri in his letter to Manmohan Ghose which was certainly written just after the composition of Love and Death (1899): "Surely Savitri that strong silent heart, with her powerful and subtly-indicated personality, has both life ...
... in a British government report on the trial, which was later reprinted in the collection Terrorism in Bengal , volume 4 (Calcutta, 1995), p. 682. To Hemendra Prasad Ghose. 19 April 1907 . Hemendra Prasad Ghose (1876 - 1962) was one of the principal writers for the Bande Mataram . Sri Aurobindo wrote this note to him at a moment when there was much internal conflict in the office of... letter. He entered into correspondence with Barindra Kumar Ghose in 1923. After a visit to Pondicherry early in 1926, he wrote to Barin about his sadhana on 17 March. Barin drafted a reply following Sri Aurobindo's instructions. This was so completely revised by Sri Aurobindo that it may be considered his own letter. To Barindra Kumar Ghose and Others, 1922 - 1928 . Sri Aurobindo wrote or dictated... letter he stated that it was "not necessary to withdraw anything", though the pre-1927 letters were not to be circulated as freely as later letters. To Barindra Kumar Ghose . Sri Aurobindo's youngest brother Barindra Kumar Ghose (1880 - 1959) was born in England and raised in Bengal. He first got to know Sri Aurobindo after the latter's return from England in 1893. Around 1902 Barin became involved ...
... take advantage of being the Mother's son. He knows too that being physically born from her is not the sole claim to being her child. To him the invocation which Sri Aurobindo's elder brother, Manmohan Ghose, made to his own mother in a moment of high poetic vision would come most naturally: Augustest! dearest! whom no thought can trace, Name murmuring out of birth's infinity. ...
... of a struggle to achieve it, in place of the futile ambling Congress methods till then in vogue." — From Sri Aurobindo's letter to Barrister Joseph Baptista on January 5, 1920. 118. Mr. Manmohan Ghose. Page 97 power of shallow rhetoric, and deputed by the sort of men that are turned out at Trinity College, Dublin? At any rate that is not what History tells us.... Just as the main... brothers remained there for some time. Then, the eldest brother, Benoy Bhusan, came back to India and obtained an employment under the Maharaja of Coochbehar. He sent some money to Manmohan, and the latter also returned. Manmohan was at first appointed Professor of English at the Dacca College, and subsequently at the Presidency College of Calcutta, which was, at that time, the best college under the... First Year class at Patna College. But his mind was not in his studies. He went to Dacca, where his brother, Manmohan, was a professor, and was admitted to Dacca College, but could not continue there for long. The dream of doing agriculture possessed him, and, extorting a promise from Manmohan for financial 178 . "The Demand of the Mother" in the Bande Mataram of 12.4.1908. Page 140 ...
... letters is considerably enlarged and covers three volumes: 22, 23 and 24 (See 41, 42, 44). SABCL: Letters on Yoga, Vols. 22,'23, 24 64. AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS COUNTRYMEN Manmohan Ghose, Calcutta, 1909 First appeared as "An Open Letter to My Countrymen" in the Karmayogin, July 31, 1909. Subsequently included in Speeches (See 82). SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol.... series: First Series from August 1916 to July 1918, and Second Series from August 1918 to July 1920. SABCL: Essays on the Gita, Vol. 13 22 . EVOLUTION Barindra Kumar Ghose, Calcutta, 1921 Three essays from the Arya: "Evolution", August 1915; "The Inconscient", September 1915; "Materialism'", October 1918. SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation... SABCL some of the articles are given in Volume 2 and some in Volume 3. SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2 The Harmony of Virtue Vol. 3 32 . IDEALS AND PROGRESS Barindra Kumar Ghose, Calcutta, 1920 Revised Edition, Arya Publishing House, Calcutta, 1922 Five essays from the Arya: "On Ideals" (June 1916), "Yoga and Skill in Works" (July 1916), "Conservation and ...
... the late nineteenth century, especially in her style and diction. The jewelled phrases and the preciosity were peculiar to her age and there is hardly any other Indo-Anglian, except probably Manmohan Ghose, who competes with her in this regard. Even he, in a poem like London, reveals a certain masculinity of diction which is wedded to a robustness of outlook. Indo-Anglian poetry had already ...
... attraction. But in the same compilation we have also a poem of Sri Aurobindo's. In the Introduction to the part distinguished as "Poetry from India" we read about Sri Aurobindo: "The younger Ghose [the elder was Manmohan] is one of the great Indian poets of this century. He is experimental and highly individual... His poems are much influenced Page 469 by modern science and are deeply ...
... a notebook of his own in which he had copied poems of rare poets who were usually omitted in academic studies, for instance, the War-poets, our Indian poets like Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Manmohan Ghose. He tried to inculcate in us the beauty of form, structure, rhythm. But alas the rhythmic beauty of English poetry was alien to my Bengali ears in spite of my composing lots of English poetry ...
... pronounced on the culpability or innocence of the writing in the Karmayogin on which I am indicted." ¹ On 7 November judgment was delivered at the Calcutta High Court on the Karmayogin and Manmohan Ghose, the printer of the journal, was acquitted. (He had been convicted by the Chief Presidency Magistrate.) The article in question, "To My Countrymen", was considered not seditious. After the removal... shirk the call of the country or want of sympathy with the work you and others are so admirably doing. I repeat my regret that I am compelled to disappoint you. Yours sincerely, Aurobindo Ghose¹ On 7 April Sri Aurobindo wrote, in Bengali, the letter known as Pondicherir Patra to his brother Barin. Barin had been released from the Andamans in 1919, after the armistice, and had written... the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. In 1920 Dr. Munje, the Congress leader, came to Pondicherry and stayed as Sri Aurobindo's guest. He had long talks with Sri Aurobindo on current Indian politics. Barin Ghose came in 1920 and Ullaskar Dutt, who had, like Barin, been sentenced to death by the sessions judge at Alipore, but later given life imprisonment and ultimately released, came in 1920 or 1921. Abinash ...
... grandeur we too should have that faculty which alone can reveal the poetry. 19: Lotika Ghose's brief but perceptive study of her uncle Sri Aurobindo's poetry was one of the earliest works that has the mark of an enduring literary evaluation. She was the daughter of Sri Aurobindo's poet-brother Manmohan. Once she was taken aback when Spiegelberg, the admirer of The Life Divine, told her that ...
... or undergo any Indian influence. 4 Dr. Ghose was indeed a peculiar man. He also ordered Pastor Drewett not to give his sons any religious instruction, so they could choose a religion themselves, if they so wished, when they came of age. He then left them to their fate for thirteen years. He believed his children should become men of character. Dr. Ghose may appear to have been a hardhearted man... thought – for he quickly came to master enough German and Italian to read Dante and Goethe in the original – peopled a solitude of which he has said nothing. He never sought to form relationships, while Manmohan, the second brother, roamed through London in the company of his friend Oscar Wilde and would make a name for himself in English poetry. Each of the three brothers led his separate life. However,... that the forces of subversion (or clearing away) are raging. In any event, Europe was at the peak of its glory; the game seemed to be played in the West. This is how it appeared to Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, Sri Aurobindo's father, who had studied medicine in England, and had returned to India completely anglicized. He did not want his three sons, of whom Sri Aurobindo was the youngest, to be in the least ...
... melody more easily than English, it has a freer variety of melodies now, for formerly as English poetry was mostly iambic, Bengali poetry used to be mostly aksaravrtta.19 (I remember how my brother Manmohan would annoy me by denouncing the absence of melody, the featureless monotony of Bengali rhythm and tell me how Tagore ought to be read to be truly melodious—like English in stress, with ludicrous... Krishnan of Andhra University asking Sri Aurobindo to write a statement for a book on "Contemporary British Philosophy.") "My dear Dilip Kumar Roy, "I am sending the enclosed to Sri Aurobindo Ghose. You can easily understand my anxiety to have a contribution contra J hope he wil1 be kind enough to oblige me by contributing a statement. "How are you getting on?" (Dilip's note:) ...
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