Ghoshal, Sarala : (Devi) (9 Sept.1872–18 Aug.1945), daughter of Jānakinātha Ghosal (one of the earliest secretaries of the Bengal Congress) & Swarnakumari Devi (first woman novelist of Bengali literature) who was the daughter of Debendranath Tagore. Saralā Devi had passed her University Entrance examination in 1886 & B.A. (English literature) at Calcutta University receiving the Padmāvati Gold Medal & maintained links with the revolutionary Suhrid Samiti of Mymensingh. ― Saralā-devi: “At the Benares Congress of 1905, I & my husband (Chaudhuri Rambhuj Datta, q.v.) were putting up in tents. One morning we were taken by surprise by a call from Lōkamānya Tilak. He walked up with a friend…. On leaving us the Lōkamānya went round the grounds calling on several other persons. Unlike many a National leader filled with overweening egotism & self-importance he never felt too proud to show regard & esteem to compatriots of whatever school of thought or following they might be.” [For her complete reminiscence on Tilak see Tilak] ― In 1920 Nov-Dec 1920, Saralā Devi interviewed Sri Aurobindo (see Khilāfat Agitation). She met Sri Aurobindo again between 1921 & 1926, with Colonel Joshua Wedgewood, a member of the British Parliament. [Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo, 2007]
... training in the Baroda army and Barindra, Sri Aurobindo's younger brother. Page 281 In Bengal, there were already the revolutionary groups organised by Barrister P. Mitter and Sarala Ghoshal (Chaudhurani), and by 1903 a strong base had been established in Bengal, the central direction being vested in a committee of five consisting of Sister Nivedita, C. R. Das, P. Mitter, Suren Tagore... the criminal and the avenger, the creators of disorder and the defenders of order. The position of leaders like Tilak in Maharashtra and Sri Aurobindo in Bengal was exceedingly difficult. Sarala Ghoshal, one of the pioneers of the revolutionary movement in Bengal, has been quoted as giving this important piece of information: Page 287 My lathi cult was in full swing in those ...
... agreed to carry out its objects on the lines suggested by Sri Aurobindo. The special cover used by Mitter's group was association for lathi play which had already been popularised to some extent by Sarala Ghoshal in Bengal among the young men; but other groups used other ostensible covers. Sri Aurobindo's attempt at a close organisation of the whole movement did not succeed, but the movement itself did ...
... was sent by Sri Aurobindo to Bengal with a clear-cut programme of revolutionary work. Jatin soon managed to establish contact with Barrister P. Mitter, Bibhuti Bhushan Bhattacharya and Mrs. Sarala Ghoshal, who had already started some revolutionary work (ostensibly on the plea that the groups of young men were learning lathi play) on the inspiration of Baron Okakura. Sri Aurobindo himself came ...
... to take some part in public life, and many went to jail. In 1930 and in 1942, the trend was more marked still. But in 1907, the situation was rather different. There were Bengali women like Sarala Ghoshal who were in active public life, but such instances were very rare. Sister Nivedita (she, like Annie Besant, was an exception too) was a burning brazier of the revolutionary spirit. Yet most women ...
... It was for her liberation that they were training and preparing themselves." "Oh yes! I think I told you that even before I joined the Swadeshi Movement, leaders like barrister P. Mitra and Sarala Ghoshal had started several such clubs in Calcutta - all with a secret political purpose. They had even envisaged armed rebellion, drawing their inspiration from the Japanese leader Okakura. After I realised ...
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