Ghose, Rash Behari : (1845-1921), lawyer of Calcutta High Court, stooge of Pherozshah & Gokhale made president of the Congress sessions at Surat & Madras in 1908. Jawaharlal Nehru: Sir R.B. Ghose, who for some unknown reason took a fancy to me, gave me a lot of advice. .... I rather liked him...father & I were once his guests at Simla….in 1918, I think.... Among the friends he invited for dinner was old Mr Khaparde...they belonged to rival schools of politics. .... After dinner K began criticising Mr Gokhale saying he had been a British agent... RB shouted that Gokhale had been the best of men & a particular friend of his.... Mr Khaparde began praising Tilak as a truly great man, a wonderful person, a saint. “A saint!” retorted RB, “I hate saints, I want to have nothing to do with them.” [Autobiography] ― Peter Heehs: …1908 & 1909 had been a disaster for the Extremists & for Indian nationalism in general…. G.K. Gokhale was in the viceroy’s good graces; Rāshbehari Ghose became his cat’s-paw. Elected president of the Moderates-Only-Congress, Rāshbehari met with Lord Minto, who convinced him to run Congress (sic) ‘in conformity with ideas as to which he & I might agree’. At the 1908 national session, Rāshbehari proclaimed from the presidential chair, “When in the fullness of time the people have outgrown the present system of administration they might hope for the extension to India of the colonial form of self-government – though, as he reminded his listeners, this ideal can only be realised in the distant future.” [Lives…, CUP, 2008]
... 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), 62, 266, 282,287,530 Gladstone, W. E., 259 God, 157 Goethe, 43, 658 Gokak ...
... has been persuaded to think that he was being asked to stand against Dr. Rash Behari Ghose and that the proposal of the Nationalists was intended as a personal honour to himself. Needless to say, the Nationalists have not asked Lajpat Rai to stand as a candidate. The step they have taken is simply to ask from Dr. Rash Behari Ghose the magnanimity to withdraw and leave the field clear so that a great principle... Lala Lajpat Rai's Refusal 18-December-1907 The refusal of Lala Lajpat Rai to accept nomination to the Presidentship of the Congress as against Dr. Rash Behari Ghose has given great cause for rejoicing to the Moderates and to Anglo-Indian journals like the Empire . The refusal is natural enough, for when a man who has not been nominated is under such cir... principle might be vindicated in the most striking way of which the circumstances admitted. Had Dr. Ghose shown that magnanimity there would have been no necessity for Lajpat Rai to be asked to stand as a candidate; the unanimous will of the country would have called him to the Presidential chair. Our proposal was not meant as an invitation to do honour to a particular individual, nor, great as is ...
... the Nationalist standpoint, one who, whatever vagaries his ideas of policy may lead him into, is believed to be a thorough-going Boycotter and Swadeshist and in no sense a Government man. Dr. Rash Behari Ghose on the other hand is a dark horse in politics. All that the rest of India knows of him is that he is a distinguished jurist, the Chairman of last year's Reception Committee and—a Legislative ... one only less objectionable than the other. But the rights of this question are so simple that there is no excuse for allowing the Congress to break up over it. If the Moderates want Dr. Rash Behari Ghose or any other Loyalist or Page 733 Legislative Councillor as President they must be satisfied with their three-fourths majority on the Reception Committee and pay the bulk of the expenses... rowdyism is only a convenient if undignified excuse to cover an untenable position. For our part we do not think the question of the Presidentship need be made a cause of final cleavage. Dr. Rash Behari Ghose is pledged like most public men in Bengal to Swadeshi and Boycott and this is still the most important issue before the Congress. If therefore the Loyalists can still be got to listen to reason ...
... harsh and even unjust in our criticism of Dr. Rash Behari Ghose's speech in the Supreme Legislative Council. They urge Page 353 that Dr. Ghose at least presented the Extremist position with great energy, clearness, courage, and did it with the greater effect as one who himself stood outside our party. We have every respect for Dr. Rash Behari Ghose personally; he is perhaps the foremost jurist... of his own, too rich and scholarly to be turned to such everyday uses as a Legislative Council speech. But eminence in law and literature do not necessarily bring with them a grasp of politics. Dr. Ghose has only recently turned his attention to this field and has not been long enough in touch with the actualities of politics to get a real grasp of them. It is therefore natural that he should be misled... and Extremist do not properly describe the parties which they are used to label; and they are largely responsible for much confusion of ideas as to the real differences between the two schools. Dr. Ghose evidently labours, like many others, under the obsession of the word Extremist. He imagines that the essential difference between the parties is a difference in attitude and in the intensity of feeling ...
... moving on a crust of ashes," describes Nevinson picturesquely. "In inaudible words Mr. Malvi proposed that Dr. [Rash Behari] Ghose Page 419 should take the Chair as President, and amid various shouting he declared the motion carried. Heavy with years and knowledge, Dr. Ghose transferred himself to the seat, and rose at once to deliver that thoughtfully prepared address. 'Brother Delegates... been "roses, roses all the way" on the Wednesday before when the Moderate leaders had travelled to Surat. On Sunday, as the party returned by train, "each station rang with shouts of 'Down with Rash Behari ! 'Down with Gokhale!' 'Down with Surendra Nath!'..." The Bande Mataram had kept its promise. 1 1. For a hilarious reading see Bande Mataram of 16 February 1918 : 'The Slaying... cried Dr. Ghose. 'You have not been elected,' answered Mr. Tilak; 'I appeal to the delegates.' "Uproar drowned the rest. With folded arms Mr. Tilak faced the audience. On either side of him young Moderates sprang to their feet, wildly gesticulating vengeance. Shaking their fists and yelling to the air, they clamoured to hurl him down the steep of the platform. Behind him, Dr. Ghose mounted the ...
... from the action of the Convention. We take it therefore that when the Moderate Convention under the usurped name of the Congress meets at Surat in December, they will take part in it with Dr. Rash Behari Ghose at their head. If so, they sever themselves from the country and forfeit their political future in Bengal, but their position is intelligible. The Bengalee , however, talks of reconciliation ...
... that the whole Committee was solid for exclusion. The other point of difference was whether there should be a new Congress called by the Convention or the adjourned Congress resummoned by Dr. Rash Behari Ghose. As this adjourned Congress would in any case be saddled with the creed and the Convention constitution, it would be in effect a new Congress. This subject of quarrel, too, like the others, turns ...
... of Dacca, the Maharaja of Darbhanga, the Maharajas of Coochbehar and Kashmir, the Raja of Nabha, Sir Harnam Singh, a few other Rajas and Maharajas ( not including the Maharaja of Baroda), Dr. Rash Behari Ghose, Mr. Justice Mukherji, a goodly number of non-official Europeans, the knight of the umbrella from Bombay, etc. etc. with Mr. Page 496 Gokhale bringing up the tail as the least dangerous ...
... volunteers lifted up chairs over the head of Tilak to beat him. Page 82 At that the Mahrattas became furious, a Mahratta shoe came hurtling across the pavilion aimed at the President Dr. Rash Behari Ghose and hit Surendra Nath Banerji on the shoulder. The young Mahrattas in a body charged up to the platform, the Moderate leaders fled and after a short fight on the platform with chairs the session ...
... the Congress expenditure. If Mr. Tilak is not elected, it does not matter to us, in the absence of Lala Lajpat Rai, whether Dr. Rash Behari Ghose or any other figurehead graces the Presidential seat, and this need not be a cause of further quarrel. On the basis of Dr. Ghose's election and the status quo in other respects a compromise ought not to be impossible, and at the present juncture it is undoubtedly ...
... may not seem at first credible, but if our argument is carefully followed, it will establish itself. No doubt, one or two men like Mr. Gokhale, Sir Pherozshah Mehta Page 323 or Dr. Rash Behari Ghose will be admitted by permission, but that privilege we had on better terms under the old system. Let us pass to the Bengal Councils and establish our position. In East Bengal there will be ... which alone represent in a faint degree the people are debarred from electing anyone not a member of these bodies. Thus at one blow it is rendered impossible for a popular leader like Sj. Motilal Ghose, unless the Government choose to nominate him, to be on these amazing Councils. Farther, anyone dismissed from Government service, e.g. Sj. Surendranath, sentenced at any time to imprisonment or tr ...
... approving Government repression; they still keep some touch with public sentiment and have not yielded body and soul to the rallying call of Lord Morley. Even so fervid an anti-Nationalist as Dr. Rash Behari Ghose, to the great discontent and surprise of the Englishman , has signed the document. The manifesto shows a clear sense of the shortcomings of the measure of reform which was acclaimed with such ...
... the next few days, things moved pretty fast. The All India Congress Committee met on 10 November at Pherozeshah Mehta's house in Bombay and decided to shift the venue from Nagpur to Surat. Rash Behari Ghose was elected President of the coming session, and this was facilitated by Lajpat Rai's withdrawal from the contest. Failing Tilak, the Nationalists would have liked Lajpat Rai, just released... All India Congress Committee. The Moderates' game was to prevent the election of Tilak and to shift the venue from Nagpur to a safer place like Madras or Surat, and have a worthy Moderate like Rash Behari Ghosh as President. In an article on 5 November, Sri Aurobindo adverted to the question of Tilak's presidentship. An unselfish and unassuming patriot, Tilak wasn't himself eager to be pushed into... on 8 November 1907, the Bande Mataram struck a more ominous note. The bureaucracy seemed determined to rally the Moderates and crush the Nationalists, and, what was much worse, Gokhale and Rash Behari Ghosh had made contemptuous references to the Nationalists in the Council Chamber. "They have betrayed", wrote the Bande Mataram, "a sad ignorance of the Nationalist literature in the country ...
... Reception Committee, proposed to bring it before the open session. Both the parties decided to test their strength on the proposal for the Presidentship of the Congress. Surendranath proposed Dr. Rash Behari Ghose and Tilak stood up for Lajpatrai. There was an effort to prevent Tilak from addressing the house. It was a signal for pandemonium. Chairs were hurled all about and the police had to be called... 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 ...
... background against which the Congress open session began on December 26, 1907, before an audience of over ten thousand strong. And immediately the two parties clashed. The Moderates had selected Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh to be the President. He was an eminent lawyer but politically he was only a figurehead. When his name was proposed and Surendranath Banerjee, considered the greatest orator of his day, stood... young Gujarati volunteers lifted up chairs over the head of Tilak to beat him. At that the Mahrattas became furious, a Mahratta shoe came hurtling across the pavilion aimed at the President, Dr. Rash Behari Ghosh, and hit Surendranath Banerjee on the shoulder. The young Mahrattas in a body charged up to the platform, the Moderate leaders fled; after a short fight on the platform with chairs the session... Everybody praises it.' There is also a vivid description of this meeting in Nevinson's The New Spirit of India. He writes: 'Grave and silent — I think without saying a single word — Mr. Aravinda Ghose took the chair, and sat unmoved, with far-off eyes, as one who gazes at futurity. In clear, short sentences, without eloquence or passion Mr. Tilak spoke till the stars shone out and someone kindled ...
... strength.... Krishna came to the world to destroy the Asuric power of Kamsa, and there could be no conciliation or co-existence for them. The Moderates - Gokhale with his debating skill. Rash Behari Ghosh with his "army of literary quotations and allusions" - tried to convince the British that conciliation was possible; but the British knew better, it had to be a fight to the finish.... compromise candidate and got him back from England. Both sides looked forward to the deliberations with considerable anxiety. Although Bengal had its own Moderates in Surendranath Banerjee and Rash Behari Ghosh, Calcutta was more of a Nationalist stronghold Page 226 because of the tempo generated by the partition. On the other hand, Sri Aurobindo l-new that the Congress organisation... 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 ...
... 613-4, 639, 836 Bhagawat, N.K. 639 Bharati, Subramania 85, 132, 220 Bharati, Suddhananda 418 Bhave, Acharya Vinoba 623-4 Bibhash Mutsuddi 670 Bisht, Dr 817-8 Book of Tea 193-4 Bose, Rash Behari 132, 173-4, 183 Bose, Subhas Chandra 424 Bluysen, Paul 46, 89-90 Buddha, Gautama, Siddhartha (Shakyamuni) 42, 60, 96,164-6,172,180, 317, 460, 482, 552, 631, 639ff, 772 Bula (Charuchandra... Stalin, Joseph 395 Standard Bearer, The 79, 205 Still-sitting movement 153, 175-6, 194, 221, 302 Subbarao, G. V. 222 Subramaniam, C. 716 Sudhir Ghose 488 Sundaram (Tribhuvandas Luhar) 691 Sunil Bhattacharya 681, 700, 718, 734-5 Surendra Mohan Ghose 251, 450, 534, 571-2, 595, 686 Surendra Nath Jauhar 165, 288, 417, 507, 538, 624, 689, 709, 733, 747, 797, 817 Suvrata (Mme Yvonne Gaebele) 321... 786 qualities needed 756, 777, 788 administration 757, 787 Matrimandir 726, 763, 791-4, 803 Baha Ullah 40-1 'Bangavani' 679 Bapat, Senapati 682 Baptista, Joseph 199 Barindra Ghose 200, 209, 215-6, 235, 241, 247, 339 Baron, C.F. 571, 662 Page 898 Becharlal Bhatt, Dr 400 Beethoven 304 Bejoy Nag 91, 131, 201, 211, 213, 217, 233 Bhakti Sutras 32 Bhagavad ...
... stage was set in Surat, the venue of the Congress in December 1907, for a showdown. VOC wired to Tilak and Aurobindo proposing Lala Lajpat Rai for the presidentship of the Congress. In the event, Rash Behari Ghosh, the Calcutta moderate was set to take the presidential chair. All the while Tilak had tried to avoid the inevitable split. But the Moderates' sly attempts to tamper with the letter and spirit... invited some Congress luminaries after the Bombay special session to Pune and VOC was among the invitees to discuss the future course of action. When VOC rose to spoke he was "loudly cheered". Motilal Ghose, the venerated editor of Amrita Bazar Patrika, who was present on the occasion, expressed his desire to see the hero of Swadeshi days and warmly hugged VOC. Page 131 Momentous ...
... differences in policy. The Moderates had tried to take too much advantage of a local majority to flout national opinion as it had crystallised earlier at the Calcutta Congress. The election of Rash Behari Ghosh as president was itself open to criticism on procedural grounds. But Sri Aurobindo added: We are ready to condone this irregularity if a united Congress is to be held on the basis of... the Nationalist Conference respectively. The Convention appointed a Committee to draft a new Constitution for the Congress, and this Committee was to meet at Allahabad on 18 and 19 April with Rash Behari Ghosh as Chairman. Sri Aurobindo wished to warn the Committee against certain fallacious courses, and so he wrote in the Bande Mataram on 4 April: The Convention is an attempt to drag back... terrorism. In the first place, the method of systematic preparation for an ultimate nation-wide armed revolution seemed too slow, too indefinite, too intolerably fatiguing * Surendra Mohan Ghose has said that both he and his father, unknown to each other, were members of a revolutionary group. Page 286 to young, ardent and impetuous minds. In the second place, acts of repression ...
... young Gujerati volunteers lifted up chairs over the head of Tilak to beat him. At that the Mahrattas became furious, a Mahratta shoe came hurtling across the pavilion aimed at the President, Dr. Rash Behari Ghose, and hit "Surendra Nath Banerjee on the shoulder. The young Mahrattas in a body charged up to the platform, the Moderate leaders fled; after a short fight on the platform with chairs, the session... Kumar Ghose and Ullaskar Dutt were sentenced to be hanged under sections 121, 121A, and 122 I.P.C... The properties of all these accused were also forfeited to Government.... The rest of the accused, viz., Nalini K. Gupta160, Sachindra K. Sen, Kunjo Lal Shah, Bejoy Kumar Nag, Narendra Nath Bukshi, Puma Chandra Sen, Hemendra Nath Ghose, Aravinda Ghose, Dindayal Bose, Birendra Nath Ghose, Dharani... 1905, a letter over the initial 'G', in which the Boycott of English goods was strongly advocated. 'G' was first believed to be the name of Lal Mohan Ghose, but afterwards it was known that the writer was either Aurobindo Ghose or Barindra Kumar Ghose, as revealed in the I.B. Records, L. No. 47, West Bengal. All Government reports and records of that time attached very great importance to this letter ...
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