Guha, Manoranjan : Thākurtā (1858-1919), prominent leader of anti-Partition movement in 1905-06 in Barisal, Calcutta, etc., & gave financial support to Barindra’s revolutionary group, hence qualified to be one of the nine Bengali Nationalists deported in December 1908.
... it was only to avoid a discussion dangerous to unity that the Nationalists contented themselves, in spite of the majority they had, with placing their dissent on record through the mouth of Sj. Manoranjan Guha. The Bengalee cannot have forgotten that incident. It was revived again at Hughly when the Moderates insisted on whittling down the Boycott to a mere commercial measure as a price of their adherence... resolution as the opinion of the country. The Moderate leaders threatened to withdraw if this was done and Sj. Aurobindo Ghose was requested to confine himself to the precedent established by Sj. Manoranjan Guha at Pabna. He then distinctly expressed his doubt whether Page 364 this would be sufficient to make the Nationalist attitude clear to the country and the advantage taken of our complaisance ...
... distant and impossible; for the heart of Bengal has seized upon it, and the intellect Page 873 of Bengal has acknowledged it. We hold no brief for anyone, but we believe that Srijut Manoranjan Guha was an inspired speaker when he told the Conference never to lose sight of God in the movement. Mighty aspirations are in the heart of the people and he is false to the inspiration within him who ...
... requested C. R. Das to take up the defence of his nephew Ara. K. K. Mitra was suddenly arrested along with several other prominent men — Ashwini Kumar Dutt, Shyam Sundar Chakraborty, Subodh Mullick, Manoranjan Guha Thakurta were among them; they were unceremoniously packed off to distant jails or even overseas, and kept imprisoned without trial for more than one year. There's British justice for you! ...
... has been taken away from you. His active and devoted lieutenant has been taken away from you. That warm-hearted patriot whom I am proud to have had the privilege of calling my personal friend—Manoranjan Guha—has been taken away from you. Why have they been exiled? What was their offence? Can anyone in Barisal name a single action—can anyone of those who have sent him into exile name definitely any ...
... were not intimate and I knew nothing about his spiritual life or attainments—except that he was a disciple of Bijoy Goswami as were also other political coworkers and leaders, like Bipin Pal and Manoranjan Guha. I knew Satish Mukherji only as a very able and active organiser in the field of education—a mission prophetically assigned to him, I was told, by his guru,—nothing more. 3 December 1932 ...
... to British India. In the early weeks, Sri Aurobindo's two constant companions were Moni and Bejoy. In October, Saurin Bose joined them and in November, Nolini. In answer to a letter from Manoranjan Guhathakurta and Shyamsundar Chakravarti from Calcutta seeking guidance in Politics, Sri Aurobindo wrote to them that he had severed all connection with politics, and that Bhagavan Sri Krishna had... posted at even the unlikeliest places. Sukumar Mitra therefore decided to work through safe intermediaries. He gave two trunks (filled with clothes and other items of personal use) to one Nagendra Kumar Guha Roy for temporary custody, and also asked him to buy two second class tickets and reserve a double cabin for Colombo by SS. Dupleix: it was hoped that "Colombo" instead of "Pondicherry" would throw ...
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