India House : a mess-cum-lodge established in 1905 by Shyamji Krishnavarma (q.v.) who had settled in London in 1897, where he saw Indian students facing unabashed racism. He (SK) & Sardarsingh Rāṇā (SR) purchased the building at 65, Cromwell Avenue, Highgate, for Indian students coming to England. Named India House (IH), it was inaugurated on 1st July by H.M. Hyndman of Social Democratic Federation, in the presence of Naoroji, Lajpat Rai, Madam Cāmā, Swinny of Positivist Society, Quelch (editor of Justice), Mme Desparde Irish Republican & Suffragette, Hans Raj, Dost Mohammed, for students holding Indian Travelling Fellowships instituted by SK, SR et al in memory of Indian martyrs of 1857 but on condition that they would not accept any post from British Raj. On 14 July Tilak asked SK to host Madhavrao Jādhav, who hoped to learn bomb making in France, & also sent P.M. Bāpat (later Senāpati Bāpat) who had lost his Govt. Scholarship for having lectured & written on British rule in India. V.D. Sāvarkar, another protégé of Tilak, came to IH, under the Rs. 2000/- p.a. Shivaji Fellowship, one of the three set up by SR. By June 1907, with Scotland Yard & Indian intelligence hounding them, SK, SR, & Cāmā moved to Paris leaving IH in Sāvarkar’s care. On 10 May 1907 (50th anniversary of 1857) when the British held war games in Delhi & deported Lajpat Rai & Ajīt Singh, Sāvarkar commemorated anniversary by opening a branch of Abhinava Bharat Society that he & his brother had founded years back in Pune, which taught selected residents the art of bomb-making & printing leaflets. That year a branch of IH opened in Tokyo, & the next year one in New York. By 1908, the London IH had become the central rendezvous for students & Nationalist leaders coming to England. In the latter category were Lajpat Rai & B.C. Pal (whose speeches were admired by Jawaharlal then studying in England). After Dhingrā murdered Curzon Wyllie on 1 July 1909, Sāvarkar got hold of a copy of Dhingrā’s political statement & published it in Daily News on the day Dhingrā was sentenced to death. Churchill is reported to have described it as the finest statement ever made in the name of Patriotism. [Shyamji Krishnavarma…, Indulal Yāgnik, 1950]
... Mr. Krishnavarma's views is a matter of public knowledge. We refuse therefore to believe that Mr. Krishnavarma has been a plotter of assassination and secret disseminator of Terrorism or that the India House is a centre for the propagation and fulfilment of the ideas he has himself ventilated in the Times . Nervous Anglo-India Time was when Srijut Surendranath Banerji was held by nervous Anglo-India ...
... blood; but this erstwhile most liberal statesman of England does not show even any lurking sympathy for the natural hankering after liberty without which a man is no man. The atmosphere of the India House, the debasing responsibility of office, the intoxication of power has brought out the Jingo and killed the man. There was such a thing as biparita buddhi or perverse mentality, and this ...
... physical terms, an Ashram is the house or houses of a Guru or Master of spiritual philosophy in which he lives with the pupils who have come to him for instruction. The tradition of retirement from the world for study and meditation in an Page 579 Ashram was already ancient at the time of Gautama Buddha, and Ashrams still exist in large numbers in India; "all depends on the Teacher and... Another staunch Aurobindonian, Rishabhchand, joined the Ashram in February 1931. He had suspended his studies in college during Gandhiji's non-cooperation movement, and had then started the firm 'India Silk House' at Calcutta; but finding the lure of Yoga irresistible, he had shaken off the cares of family and business and boarded the "celestial omnibus" to Pondicherry. Once there, he never left it; a... seekers gather round a Guru, an Ashram - whether or not it is called by that name - comes into existence as the practical answer to this persistent human need. An Ashram, then, is a place - a house or group of houses - where the disciples of a Guru foregather to live the life of the Spirit. The soul of an Ashram is the Guru with a particular vision of Reality and his own tested pathway to the Goal. And ...
... Without Land's End, it was the ruin of our plans. We needed these two houses to shelter our team, plus the machine and the installations. Harwood was of no use without Land's End, we would have had to leave India. If this didn't work out, it would have been a sign for me that there was nothing to do but to leave India and create our centre elsewhere. (...) Well, there is a grace called Micheline... black holes. July 12, 1981 Today, July 12, 1981, I have completed the Agenda .? July 14, 1981 Volume XIII is taking off for New York. India Book House cancels the contract for the distribution of the Agenda in India. * (Personal letter) July 14, four years ago, 57 and now volume XIII is taking off — we have knocked about a lot together. I feel like embracing... that it is not due to physical causes. But there is a more serious cause of concern which prompts this letter. I need your advice. Abruptly, India Book House has sent a letter dated July 8, cancelling the contract of distribution of the Agenda in India. The pretext invoked is the poor sales of volume I. They have started the sales only six months ago. It is well known that the Agenda is not ...
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