Ghose, N.N. : Nāgendra Nath Ghose (1854-1909), principal of Metropolitan College, Calcutta, & editor of the weekly Indian Nation.
... formulated by Mr. N.N. Ghose of the Indian Nation, Sri Aurobindo wrote: Rather we find that every nationality has been formed not because of, but in spite of, diversity of race or religion or language ,and not unoften in spite of the co-existence of all these diversities. The Indian Nation has itself admitted that the English nation has been built out of various races, but he (N.N. Ghose) has not stated ...
... at all. Who would remember Mr. N.N. Ghose today except for Sri Aurobindo's taking some notice of him, as for example in: Men of all parties, except the party of Mr. N.N. Ghose which, as it consists of only one man, need not concern us.. . 27 We quite admit that it is difficult to understand the mystic wisdom of a Page 258 sage [Mr. Ghose] who asserts that the soundness... an organised government expressing the nationality and perpetuating its single and united existence. 16 He maintained that these conditions were indeed present in India. In reply to Mr. N.N. Ghose's contention that the mixture of races was an insuperable obstacle to national unity, Sri Aurobindo resorted to a reductio ad absurdum: One might just as well say that different chemical... Page 254 II While the Bande Mataram case was going on, there appeared in the paper three editorial articles from Sri Aurobindo's pen in which he joined issue with Mr. N. N. Ghose of the Indian Nation on the subject of nationality and sovereignty in the Indian context. Answering a question posed by himself - What are the elements of nationality? - Sri Aurobindo wrote in ...
... like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bepin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sri Aurobindo and others was untenable and was even an avoidable menace. There was a view among journalists such as that of Mr. N.N. Ghose of the Indian Nation that because there is diversity of race in India, because there is diversity of religion in India, and because there is diversity of language in India, the essential conditions ...
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