... national feeling was thus slowly taking shape and it was not long before that it took a concrete form. It took the shape of the Indian National Congress. Ironically, it was an Englishman, Allan Octavian Hume, who was responsible for the formation of the Indian National Congress. In the words of an Page 46 Indian historian: 'The Congress was the natural and inevitable product of... it was organised to serve as a 'safety-valve' for the growing unrest in the country and to strengthen the British Empire. However, very soon the Indian National Congress was taken over by the Indians. The first meeting of the Indian National Congress was held in Bombay in 1885. We reproduce a report of the Presidential address of the First Congress in Bombay by The Hon'ble W. C. Bonnerjee: ... gifted orator and writer. The Indian National Congress thus became the vanguard of the Nationalist Movement for the following decades till the advent of freedom in 1947. Let us analyse the basic assumptions on which the movement was based during this first phase from 1885 to 1905. In this stage (1885-1905), the vision of the Indian National Congress was somewhat dim, vague and confused. The ...
... the Swadeshi spirit, long before any one else had thought of it. It was under his inspiration that a Hindu Mela or National Exhibition was started a full quarter of a century before the Indian National Congress thought of an Indian Industrial Exhibition.... A strong conservatism, based upon a reasoned appreciation of the lofty spirituality of the ancient culture and civilisation of the country;... l weaknesses it was labouring under. Soon after his return to India, he set himself to expose those weaknesses with an incisive, relentless logic, pull down the fragile structure of the Indian National Congress, and build it anew on the solid foundation of a fervent nationalistic idealism and a profound political philosophy, drawing their sustenance from the very roots of Indian culture and true... members of the Secret Society established by Rajnarayan Bose where the members had to take oath that they would destroy by the use of force the enemies of the country." 101 In 1885, the Indian National Congress was founded by A.C. Hume, a retired civilian, at the secret suggestion and under the veiled auspices of Lord Dufferin, the then Governor-General of India. It was Lord Dufferin's intention ...
... pp. 11 - 62). 56 Karachi Lahore A resolution affirming complete independence as the goal of the Indian National Congress was first passed at the Lahore session in December 1929. A resolution passed at the Karachi session in March 1931 noted in passing that complete independence was still... The negotiations for a united Congress in Bengal were held in December 1909 (Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin , pp. 340 - 42, 363 - 71). This was before the third Lahore session of the Indian National Congress (December 1909). The Benares session of Congress was held in December 1905, two years before Sri Aurobindo emerged as a political leader. 76 ... Political Writings and Speeches 1909 - 1910 . Volume 8 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1997. Zaidi, A. M., et al., eds., Encyclopedia of the Indian National Congress , volumes 9 and 10. New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 1980 - 81. P ART T WO L ETTERS OF H ISTORICAL I NTEREST Most of Sri Aurobindo's published letters were ...
... mentioned, galvanised the whole nation. The spark of an intense, inextinguishable patriotism, flying from Bengal, kindled a country-wide conflagration. The official report of the Banaras Indian National Congress 7 , which was held in December, 1905, records as follows: "Never since the dark days of Lord Lytton's Viceroyalty had India been so distracted, discontented, despondent; the victim of... distant seas and lands"? Subhash Chandra Bose, the chief lieutenant of C.R. Das, - C.R. Das became later in 1918 the foremost pilot of Bengal politics and one of the greatest leaders of the Indian National Congress - writes in his book. An Indian Pilgrim: "In my undergraduate days Arabindo Ghosh was easily the most popular leader in Bengal, despite his voluntary exile and absence from 1909. His was... Deoghar, where his maternal grand-father, Rajnarayan Bose, was living, for a change of air, but could not stay there long. He had to hurry down to Calcutta to attend the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress, which promised to be a crucial one for his Nationalist Party. He had to go to Deoghar again a few times till March, 1907, for recruiting his health. 91. Sri Aurobindo on Himself ...
... letters to his father from England reflect his deep interest in the fate of his country. He followed the progress of events at home and his sympathies lay with the extremist faction of the Indian National Congress, led by Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Sri Aurobindo. After graduating from Cambridge, Jawaharlal joined the Inner Temple in London, qualified as a barrister and returned to India in 1912 to... fulfilment in the practice of law. Nehru's true vocation lay in politics. Slowly, he was pulled into the centre of the struggle against British imperialism. He had attended the session of the Indian National Congress held at Page-265 Bankipore in December 1912, but found the proceedings rather tame. The arrest of Mrs. Annie Besant in 1917 and the Punjab massacre in 1919 were events that created... conditions. He deprecated the inordinate value the Mahatma attached to austerity and asceticism and questioned his idealisation of poverty. The non-cooperation movement launched by the Indian National Congress was a threat to the British government. A large number of "non-cooperators" were jailed. Nehru was arrested for the first time in 1921 with his father and sentenced to six months imprisonment ...
... the Congress is to transfer the political control of the country from the British to the Hindus". Spurred on by Beck, Sayyid Ahmad Khan discouraged the Muslims from joining the newly formed Indian National Congress. His argument was that the setting up of democratic institutions would mean the permanent subservience of the Muslims to the Hindus. He, therefore, asked the Muslims to look up to the British... political activity, which, he feared, might revive British hostility towards them. That was why he opposed Ameer Ali's proposed Political Conference and why he advised Muslims against joining the Indian National Congress, when it was organized in 1885. However, in his policies and programme, he was, in part, guided and goaded by political considerations. For one thing, he believed that education was the passport... This step was taken at the Congress session at Lucknow. It was here that a pact was made between the Hindus and Muslims. The Lucknow Pact made in December 1916 was an agreement made by the Indian National Congress and the Page 35 All-India Muslim League and adopted by the Congress at its Lucknow session on December 29 and by the League on Dec. 31, 1916. The Congress agreed to ...
... uses his leaves and vacations, especially from 1902 onwards, for the organisation of revolutionary action in Bengal. December Meeting with Lokmanya Tilak at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. 1902-1903 Contacts and joins a secret society in western India. 1903 January Recommences teaching at the Baroda College. February 22 On leave for one month... Kamdar, often doing secretarial work for the Gaekwar. September 28 Directed to leave the Huzur Kamdar's office and join the College full time. December At the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. Begins the practice of Yoga. 1905 January Assumes the post of Vice-principal, Baroda College. March 3 Becomes acting Principal of the College. October... fact". Sri Aurobindo writes the pamphlets "No Compromise" and "Bhawani Mandir" during the agitation that precedes the Partition December At the Benares session of the Indian National Congress. 1906 February 19 Applies for privilege leave. March 2 Goes to Bengal. March 11 Present at the formation of the National Council of Education in Calcutta. March ...
... leaves and vacations, especially from 1902 onwards, for the organisation of revolutionary action in Bengal. December Meeting with Lokmanya Tilak at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. 1902-1903 — Contacts and joins a secret society in western India. 1903—January Recommences regular teaching at the Baroda College. February 22 On leave for one... doing secretarial work for the Gaekwar. September 28 Directed to leave the Huzur Kamdar's office and join the College full time. December At the Bombay session of the Indian National Congress. 1904 — Begins the practice of Yoga. 1905 — January Assumes the post of Vice-principal of the College. March 3 Becomes acting Principal of the College. October... hed fact". Sri Aurobindo writes the pamphlets "No Compromise" and "Bhawani Mandir" during the agitation that precedes the Partition. December At the Benaras session of the Indian National Congress. 1906 — February 19 Takes privilege leave; goes to Bengal. March 11 Present at the formation of the National Council of Education in Calcutta. March 12 Declaration ...
... of the committee which drafted the constitution of Indian National Congress. G. Subramaniya Iyer of Chennai participated and moved a resolution in the congress. In the beginning, the role of the Indian National Congress was not to oppose the British government, but to submit their grievances in a peaceful way. The sessions of Indian National Congress were convened at Madras in 1887, 1895 and 1898. C... Anandacharlu, Page 52 and Rangaiya Naidu played a significant part in the association to redress the miseries of the people. Rise of Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress was founded in 1885. With its formation the Freedom Movement gained momentum in Tamil Nadu. The first conference of the congress was held at Bombay under the presidentship... Calcutta Indian National Congress in 1920. On hearing of VOC's destitute condition, Justice Wallace, the judge who had sentenced VOC and was now Chief Justice of Madras Presidency, restored his bar license. But VOC spent his last years (1930s) in Kovilpatti heavily in debt, even selling all of his law books for daily survival. He died on 18 November 1936 in the Indian National Congress Office ...
... don't get out.' He replied, 'Come and try.' And they didn't dare!" Thus it was that young A. Ghose, at the request of his friend, wrote a series of articles in the Indu Prakash on the Indian National Congress. "There I severely criticized the Congress for its moderate policy." Should we say, 'its mendicant policy' ? At all events, the very first two articles made a sensation and were so incisive... used in the sense of the Aladdin story, but was intended to imply the offering of new lights to replace the old and faint reformist lights of the Congress." A short account of how the Indian National Congress came into being may not be amiss here. It was on 28 December 1885 that this largest political organization of Indians was founded. The initiative for its foundation was taken, among others... Woomesh Chandra Bonnerjee, an eminent Barrister of the Calcutta High Court, as its president. A.O. Hume was one, of the conveners of the first session. He was also general secretary of the Indian National Congress for its first twenty-one years. On the other side, the Indian leaders themselves were feeling the Page 27 need to create a national unity as a basis for national progress ...
... great awakening in the religious, cultural and social life of the country. It was inevitable that these changes should have repercussions in the political sphere also. The formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 was an expression of this new political awareness. But the political awakening, when it came, was slow and uncertain in its beginnings. The first generation of Congress leaders, among... in Maharashtra. Here I should also mention that Sri Aurobindo had a long meeting with this great Maharashtrian leader in December 1902 when both were present at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. Sri Aurobindo had an exceptional regard for Tilak and their collaboration in the political field was both close and of immense significance for the national movement. In 1903 Sri Aurobindo... disregard of the wishes of the people. This was to have far-reaching consequences. Sri Aurobindo remained in close touch with the situation. In December 1905 he attended the Benares Session of the Indian National Congress to feel the pulse of the nation. Mark how many things he had simultaneously taken up by this time: yoga, revolutionary work, politics, teaching, besides his own literary activity. But we can ...
... he described the India Council as 'the oligarchy of fossilised Indian administrators who were superannuated for services in India'. He was the first South Indian to be made President of the Indian National Congress. Having been the President he later grew in stature to become a Proposer of Page 31 Presidents to that prestigious body. And no Congress meeting was held without his... was so, there was every possibility of the idea being seriously followed up at the Madras meeting two months later in December 1884 when it took a concrete shape. The Indian National Congress was formally born on 28 December 1885 in the hall of the Gokuldas Tejpal Sanskrit College in Bombay, with W. C. Bonnerjee presiding. The Madras contingent to this first Congress was headed... here, His first regular publication was the Indian Politics which appeared in 1898. Adorned with an introduction by W. C. Bonnerjee, one of the founders and the first President of the Indian National Congress, this work aimed at educating public opinion in the country and at rallying 'British democracy to the cause of Indian freedom'. The various publications issued from the house of Natesan in ...
... Page 1147 Returning to India in February 1893, Sri Aurobindo took up work in the Princely State of Baroda. Later that same year, he began to contribute articles on the Indian National Congress to the Indu Prakash of Bombay. These proved to be too outspoken for the proprietor of this newspaper. Compelled to tone them down, Sri Aurobindo soon lost interest in the project. For... established group, whom they called "Moderates". The advanced group, who called themselves the New Party or Nationalists, but were called by their opponents "Extremists", wanted to make the Indian National Congress a dynamic political organisation with an aggressive policy. All the Indian-owned English-language dailies of Calcutta were in the control of men of moderate if not loyalist views. From the... during the first seven months after the start of the weekly are published in Part Four. At the end of December 1907, Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta to attend the Surat session of the Indian National Congress. Before and after the session, he delivered a number of speeches in different cities. Many of these survive in one form or another. Transcripts of nine of them are published in Part Five ...
... current political situation in a series of articles for the Indu Prakash, the newspaper of which Deshpande was the editor. Aurobindo complied and wrote New Lamps for Old, lambasting the Indian National Congress in such hard-hitting prose that Deshpande got much more than he had bargained for. Taking into account that the writer was only twenty-one years old, these articles were a remarkable feat... wrote Sri Aurobindo, and, designating himself in the third person: ‘He had already in England decided to devote his life to the service of his country and its liberation.’ 21 The Indian National Congress was founded in 1895, less than eight years before, mainly on the initiative of a retired English civilian, Allan O. Hume (1892-1912). It was the first and for the time being the only political... the sovereignty of a handful of English merchants and within a century went into an inert sleep under the shadow of their paramount empire.’ (Sri Aurobindo). The danger associated with the Indian National Congress, as Aurobindo saw it, was that it would perpetuate that situation and postpone any hope of self-rule and national dignity for decades to come, if not for ever. The amazing fact about this ...
... taking shape and it was not long before that it took a concrete political form. It came in the shape of the Indian National Congress. Ironically, it was an Englishman, Allan Octavian Hume, who was responsible for the formation of Page 27 the Indian National Congress. In the words of an Indian historian, "The Congress was the natural and inevitable product of forces already... service in 1882, he involved himself in political activities aimed at giving Indians a more democratic, representational government and was one of the conveners of the first session of the Indian National Congress, held at Bombay in 1885. This event heralded the beginning of a political awakening. The demand for political freedom, however half-hearted and halting, began to find expression in the collective ...
... and earnestness other reporters were unable to discover,—is obliged to admit the smallness of the circle to which these creditable feelings were confined. To this body calling itself the Indian National Congress how many delegates did the Indian nations end? The magnificent total of three hundred. From Bengal Sjs. Surendranath, Bhupendranath and A. Chaudhuri with less than half-a-dozen followers enriched... to Conventionism? Bombay city, Gujerat and the United Provinces are still open to them for a season. The abstention of a disgusted nation has passed sentence of death on this parody of the Indian National Congress. The Convention President's Address The most remarkable feature of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya's address is not what he said, but what he omitted to Page 378 say. If the ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Indian National Congress: Moderates and Extremists [Allan Hume founded the Indian National Congress to act as an intermediary between the elite of the English and Indian peoples.] This description of the Congress as an intermediary etc. would hardly ...
... himself. It wasn't likely that the Government would leave him free to pursue politics: it wasn't to be taken for granted that his views would be acceptable to the Nationalist party or the Indian National Congress: and, above all, his real work - the work that had brought him to Pondicherry - lay in a different sphere altogether. He had left politics not simply to evade arrest, or because he was seized... ng, and now and then he offered advice when it was sought or when he thought the occasion demanded it. It is said that the foreign policy resolution passed at the Jaipur session of the Indian National Congress after the war was almost wholly, word for word, the draft sent by him to Nehru through Surendra Mohan Ghose.* The situation in India after the partition - the influx of refugees from Pakistan ...
... Indian, Western civilization commercialism, 61, 67, 127, 140, 153, 216 Communism, 90, 103, 154, 174,214, 220-221, 252, 253 Communists (Indian), 231 Confucians, 190 Congress. see under Indian National Congress Congressmen, 222 conversion, 204,205 of Hindus into Muslims, 167, 245 Coomaraswamy my, A, K., 60(11) corruption, 209, 222 courage, 22,23, 25, 30, 36, 54, 57, 58, 68, 124, 148, 154 ... 139, 146 , 150,153, 175, 185,213·214 intellect mind, 12,43,87,88,95, 111,112,126. 147, 157 mentality, 225, 228 society, 85-86, 89.90, 92 , 119 -121, 131,165 universities, II, 12,60 Indian National Congress, 9, 17,19,43, 132. 149, 155-156,219, 241(fn), 249 and the communal principle, 19, 53 ,195 corruption in, 209 a Fascist organization. 215 imitation of, 61,62 Page 266 ...
... most prominent leader of the Bengal Nationalist party, he had been invited to Jhalakati, a town in Bakarganj District, to attend the 1909 session of the Bengal Provincial Conference of the Indian National Congress. The principal event of the tour was the speech he delivered in Jhalakati on 19 June 1909 (reproduced on pages 33-42 of Karmayogin , volume 8 of THE C OMPLETE WORKS OF SRI A UROBINDO )... 1 August 1920. The letter referred to in item [8] very likely is the one written by Tilak's associate Dr. B. S. Munje to Sri Aurobindo, inviting him to preside over the 1920 session of the Indian National Congress. Sri Aurobindo's reply turning down this offer is dated 30 August 1920. Mirra Richard (The Mother) and Paul Richard participated in some if not all the sessions. (See especially item [9].) ...
... Central Hindu College of Bangalore. He then took a law degree from the Madras Law College. He joined the Congress party soon after that and in 1921 was chosen general secretary of the Indian National Congress under Gandhi's leadership. In subsequent years he was intermittently a member of the all-powerful Congress Working Committee, the top executive arm of the National Congress, and worked very... if he does not give you free passage out, allow yourself, man, woman and child to be slaughtered." 3.... Faced with such an impracticable - even unethical - attitude of the leader of the Indian National Congress Party, no wonder, ... Lord Linlithgow could not afford to seek the cooperation and support of the Muslim League to ensure the successful mobilization of Indian resources for the Second World ...
... British rule in India. As already explained in the book, the British exploitation first provoked minor revolts all over the country, then the Sepoy Mutiny and finally the formation of the Indian National Congress. The Congress Party took this to the logical conclusion by getting independence and forming the Indian State in 1947. Unfortunately, in this process, the country got its freedom but not unity... shall take up now a brief resume of the political movements in India in the last century and a half. The first phase of the Indian political revival started with the formation of the Indian National Congress. This phase was dominated by the Moderate philosophy of the Congress. The essentials of the movement may be summed up thus: An implicit faith in the British sense ...
... T. An Indian Commentary (1928) Ghose, Jyotish Chandra. Sri Aurobindo (1929) Ghose, Lotika. Indian Writers of English Verse (1933) Ghose, P. C. The Development of the Indian National Congress: 1892-1909 (1960) Ghose, Sisir Kumar. The Poetry of Sri Aurobindo (1969) Gokak, V. K. and V. Madhusudan Reddy (Eds.). The Flame of Truth (1968) Goswami, C. R. The Soul-Culture... (1967) Singh, Thakur Jaideva. Philosophy of Evolution: Western and Indian (1970) Sircar, Mahendranath. Eastern Lights (1935) Sitaramayya, Pattabhi. The History of the Indian National Congress (1946) Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir (Calcutta). Loving Homage (1958) Sri Aurobindo Ashram (New Delhi). Pioneer of the Supramental Age (1958) Srivastava, R.S. Contemporary ...
... every town and market-place in East Bengal, and the separation scheme has been universally and unanimously condemned. 2 Again, as President of the Bombay session (December 1904) of the Indian National Congress, Sir Henry castigated the British administration in India and described their ignoration of the mounting opposition to the proposed partition as "a most arbitrary and unsympathetic evidence... have seen how, quite ten years earlier in 1893, Sri Aurobindo had exposed in his Indu Prakash articles, albeit anonymously, the shallowness, weakness and puerility of the politics of the Indian National Congress, - the politics of pettifoggery, prayer-mongering and perpetual petitioning. That had proved pretty Page 206 strong meat at the time, and Sri Aurobindo had accordingly withdrawn ...
... was felt as a blow to the unity of the Bengalees and a challenge to awakened India. Sri Aurobindo had been for some time playing an important part in the behind-the-scenes activities of the Indian National Congress. Now he decided to come into the open, leave the Baroda Service, and take the plunge into politics. He became the de facto editor of the 'extremist' Calcutta daily, Bande Mataram. The paper... August 1906 Sri Aurobindo was in effective charge of both Bande Mataram and the Bengal National College. December 1906 At the Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, Sri Aurobindo played a prominent part, along with noted fellow Nationalists like Bal Gangadhar (Lokamanya) Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai. July-September 1907 Arrested in July ...
... in India. This speech was delivered by the Maharaja of Baroda on 15 December 1902, at the opening of the Industrial Exhibition held in Ahmedabad in conjunction with the 1902 session of the Indian National Congress. It certainly was written by Sri Aurobindo. He identified it as his composition in 1940, when one of his disciples commented: "a speech he [the Maharaja] made at the Industrial Exhibition ...
... the institution. In the first place, we must avoid the mistake of making it a festival or a show occasion intended to excite enthusiasm and propagate sentiment. That was a function which the Indian National Congress had, perhaps inevitably, to perform, but a body which tries to be at once a deliberative assembly and a national festival, must inevitably tend to establish the theatrical and holiday character ...
... the holding of a Convention Congress at Lahore, are inviting the representatives of the Moderate party to a session of what is still called, even under these discouraging circumstances, the Indian National Congress. It is of small importance to us whom these three gentlemen elect as their President. The nomination was indeed a foregone conclusion. Sir Pherozshah Mehta, having got rid of his Nationalist ...
... social, educational, political and intellectual ideas in Bengal. This had an impact elsewhere in the country and perhaps it is no accident that many of the Bengalis who were associated with the Indian National Congress were also Brahmos by faith. We must not forget the important religious and social ideas which Brahmos like Keshab Chandra Sen or Sitanath Tattvabushan initiated nor those by non-Brahmos like ...
... Chandra Bose, a Bengali, was born in 1897; he followed an education similar to that of Sri Aurobindo, also renounced joining the Indian Civil Service, and became one of the top men of the Indian National Congress. When he could not see eye to eye with Mohandas K Gandhi, he founded his own Forward Block. In his resistance against the British – he was arrested eleven times in the course of his political ...
... contribute a series of articles to a newspaper called Indu Prakash. This may be considered his entrance into Indian politics. In this series, called “New Lamps for Old”, he lambasted the Indian National Congress Party (founded in 1885) for its submissive attitude towards the British masters in such hard-hitting prose that he was requested to tone down or write on less controversial topics. “New Lamps ...
... English daily paper. It would be the organ of a new political party Tilak and others were intending to form. Another was Dr. Munje, who proposed that Sri Aurobindo take up the presidency of the Indian National Congress. Sri Aurobindo declined both offers politely. To Baptista he wrote: ‘Pondicherry is my place of retreat, my cave of tapasya …’ 9 And in his answer to Munje he said: ‘I am no longer ...
... preparing to sail for America. But it was going to take another dozen years for their call to their countrymen to find expression in the political field. For the present, the eight-year-old Indian National Congress, whose members were mostly drawn from the Anglicized upper classes of society, had full faith in British fair-mindedness and the "providential character" of British rule in India, and year ...
... × A caravansary, or Indian style shelter. × Indian National Congress : the formative freedom organization against the British that became India's major political party under Jawaharlal Nehru after independence. ...
... opera-glass? NB: "All drunken shadows of thought fade and pass..." Sri Aurobindo: "Drunken shadows"!! If even shadows become bibulous and stagger, what will become of the Congress [The Indian National Congress] and its prohibition laws? Besides Rajagopalachari [the then Chief Minister of the 'dry' state Madras] is sure to pass a law soon forbidding the publication of any book with the words "wine" ...
... Lakshmibai, Nanasaheb and Tope IX (i) Renaissance in India and struggle for Freedom (ii) Raja Ram Mohun Roy, Dayananda, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda (iii) Birth of Indian National Congress (iv) The first demand. The Moderates: Ferozshah Mehta, Ranade and Gokhale (v) The demand of the Nationalists: Swarajya as the goal (vi) Tilak and Sri Aurobindo (vii) ...
... Commissioner. By then, Menon had become close to Sardar Patel and it did not take long for him to get close to Mountbatten too. When the interim Government, run by the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League, collapsed due to their mutual rivalry, it was Menon who put forward the formula used as the basis for India's constitutional independence. He proposed this formula to ...
... Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefied. To him literature was an instrument to fight social evils. He was a poet of considerable renown. He was also one of the members of the first Indian National Congress meeting held in 1885. He died on 27 May 1919. His statue has been installed on Beach Road, Visakhapatnam.8 Page 27 HOME ...
... leaving aside the practical part. But soon I got disgusted with it." ¹ The series of political articles mentioned above, "New Lamps for Old", which severely criticised the policy of the Indian National Congress, was published in the Induprakash of Bombay from 7 August 1893 to 5 March 1894. Sri Aurobindo was pressed by K .G. Deshpande, his Cambridge friend, to write the series. K.G. Deshpande, after ...
... independence in the Indu-prakash entitled New Lamps for Old immediately on his return to India, articles which advocated a new ideal, a new approach and a new method to be adopted by the Indian National Congress, are a further sign that his interest in India's freedom was not merely academic but dynamic: it was an intense flame that touched many Indian hearts and set them ablaze. Some people ...
... Kensington Liberal Club was one of the editors of the Academy . He was born in India, at Coonoor, and was a brother of Sir Henry Cotton, I.C.S.,' who took a prominent part in starting the Indian National Congress. Mr. G. M. Prothero was a senior tutor at Cambridge. He became a prominent historian and was knighted. This testimony coming as it does unsolicited from a University man throws a unique ...
... and the fact of the donation to the War Fund became public, there was some bewilderment among the Ashram community, and rather something more outside - even a scream of disapproval. The Indian National Congress had directed that the war effort should not be supported, whereas Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, by precept and example alike, did just the opposite. It was natural that people looking ...
... his soul in patience and waiting for oportunities to send currents of the greatest strength into the nation's system." In his Presidential address at the 1920 special Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress, he added: "It was at Calcutta that the ideas of new Nationalism that have since then grown into a mighty tree, were first expounded and explained by one of the purest minded and the most ...
... Aurobindo begins organizing revolutionary action in Bengal. July 4 — Swami Vivekananda passes away. December -Sri Aurobindo meets Bal Gangadhar Tilak at the Ahmedabad session of the Indian National Congress. 1903, May-August — Sri Aurobindo accompanies the Gaekwad on his tour of Kashmir as his Private Secretary. December 17 - First successful flight of a plane by the Wright brothers ...
... till the agitation in Bengal furnished an opening for the public initiation of a more forward and direct political action than the moderate reformism which had till then been the creed of the Indian National Congress. In 1906 Sri Aurobindo came to Bengal with this purpose and joined the New Party, an advanced section small in numbers and not yet strong in influence, which had been recently formed in the ...
... constant, unless one lives deep within and bears the external activities as only a surface front of our being. And the work he has to do is the least peaceful of all. If Buddha had to lead the Indian National Congress, well! For the spiritual life there is perhaps no immediate possibility: his mind stands in between, for it has seized strongly the Socialist dream of social perfection by outward change ...
... Aurobindo's practice of Yoga became more and more absorbing. He dropped all participation in any public political activity, refused more than one request to preside at sessions of the restored Indian National Congress and made a rule of abstention from any public utterance of any kind not connected with his spiritual activities or any contribution of writings or articles except what he wrote afterwards ...
... his two elder brothers. He spends 5 years in Manchester, enters St. Paul's School, London, in 1884, and King's College, Cambridge, in 1890. 1885,Dec -First session of the Indian National Congress at Bombay. 1886,Aug. 16 -Sri Ramakrishna passes away. 1892,August - Sri Aurobindo passes the I.C.S.; he does not appear at a riding test and is disqualified ...
... Bombay, the people of Bombay are contemplating the holding of the next session of the Congress in London. The Gujerati writes:— "The idea of holding the next session of the Indian National Page 466 Congress in London is a good idea. Years ago a similar proposal was put forward. But it was not taken up by congressmen in right earnest. The extremists, who are sure to quote Mr. Morley's ...
... May.1908 Bande Mataram Speeches at Pabna - I 12-February-1908 The subject of National Education, which has been recognised by the Indian National Congress as one of the main planks in its platform, received a further impetus in this year's Bengal Provincial Conference which was held in Pabna in the second week of February last. The resolution ...
... Speeches 22.Dec.1907 - 1.Feb.1908 Bande Mataram Speeches On 21 December 1907, Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta to attend the Surat session of the Indian National Congress. The next day he addressed a meeting in Nagpur. After the violent break-up of the Congress he passed a few days in Baroda, and then visited a number of cities in Maharashtra at the invitation ...
... destroyer of Universes, and broke Daksha's sacrifice to pieces and shattered the hall of sacrifice and slew Daksha in his hall. There was a Daksha too in India which was called the Indian National Congress. Like Daksha it was a great figure, a Prajapati with numerous offspring, full of dignity, sobriety, wisdom, and much esteemed by the gods. This Daksha too had a daughter whom he loved, the ...
... singular light on the proceedings of the valiant Three who are defending the bridge of conciliation and alliance between the bureaucracy and the Moderates which now goes by the name of the Indian National Congress. According to this correspondent, the account of Sir Pherozshah's election cabled from Lahore is incorrect and garbled. What really happened was that eighteen gentlemen assembled at Lahore ...
... opposition from the powerful Marxist-Muslim combine which had international support - ideological, political, and financial -, and which had crystallized inside the Indian National Congress under the leadership of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. With the coming of Independence in 1947, this combine received state patronage on a grand scale so that it came to control all institutions ...
... constant, unless one lives deep within and bears the external activities as only a surface front of being. And the work he has to do is the least peaceful of all. If Buddha had to lead the Indian National Congress, well! For the spiritual life there is perhaps no immediate possibility: his mind stands in between, for it has seized strongly the Socialist dream of social perfection by outward change ...
... Maharashtra and the Punjab, forming the well-known trinity Lal-Bal-Pal. Indeed a country-wide campaign was launched with the result that the demand for British goods fell off seriously. Even the Indian National Congress at its annual session at Benares in December 1905, which Sri Aurobindo attended as an observer, could not ignore the intensity of popular feelings and gave support to the movement. Yet ...
... great. A gradual sense of revolt was awakening among both the educated class and the working and toiling masses. It needed a field of expression and that was provided by the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885. Page 45 HOME ...
... awakening. The Sepoy Mutiny may be therefore described as a further step in awakening the national consciousness on political lines. The Second phase starts with the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885. This was a conscious and deliberate step in the formation of the national consciousness and from this time onwards there was no stopping of the movement. It was inevitable that this ...
... Tilak she played no small role in bringing about some kind of Hindu-Muslim unity in the Lucknow Congress in 1916. The Lucknow Pact made in December 1916 was an agreement made by the Indian National Congress and the All-India Muslim League and adopted by the Congress at its Lucknow session on December 29 and by the League on 31 December 1916. The meeting at Lucknow marked the reunion of the moderate ...
... been taken from Wikipedia and talks with individuals. Chapter 7. 1. All material taken from Wikipedia on the Internet. Chapter 9. 1. History of the Indian National Congress - PUBLISHED BY G. A. NATESAN & Co., ESPLANADE, Madras Chapter 10. 1. REMINISCENCES OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA by K. S. RAMASWAMI SASTRI 2. Complete-Works - Volume ...
... began the series with the well-known, yet none the less always startling, question: "If the blind lead the blind, shall they not both fall into a ditch?" It was some nine years since the Indian National Congress had commenced its activities with a blazing fanfare of trumpets and deafening bugle-sounds, but where was the Promised Land? The walls of the Anglo-Indian Jericho stand yet without a ...
... Ratan Dadabhai Tata (J.R.D. - 1904), a legendary figure of our time, who has made the Tatas what they are today. -Feroz Shah Mehta (1845-1915) was one of the founding fathers of the Indian National Congress. -Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917) began his career as an educationist but later turned to politics. He was the first Indian to be elected a member of the British Parliament. Page 35 ...
... revolutionary cult Hemchandra Kanungo and three or four others who took the pledge given by Sri Aurobindo. Target practice with them. Was at the Ahmedabad sessions of the Indian National Congress where he met Lokamanya Tilak and discussed with him the utter futility of the then Congress politics. Sent Jatindranath Bandyopadhyaya to Calcutta to organise revolutionary work, whom Sri ...
... revolutionary cause. Sometimes he was entrusted with plans and programmes of the revolution to show them to sympathisers and potential patrons. In December 1907 Sri Aurobindo went to the Indian National Congress session at Surat. Sudhir accompanied him as his personal attendant and served him as his bodyguard. After the break-up of the Congress he went with Sri Aurobindo in the latter’s lecture tour ...
... propaganda or action. 19 Page 199 Months later, when an attempt was made by Dr. B.S. Moonje and others to get Sri Aurobindo to preside over the Nagpur special session of the Indian National Congress in December 192O, he promptly wired his refusal, and followed it up with a detailed letter dated 30 August, giving convincing political reasons as also a clinching personal explanation: ...
... practice of Yoga became more and more absorbing. He dropped all participation in any public political activity, refused more than one request to preside at sessions of the restored Indian National Congress and made a rule of abstention from any public utterance of any kind not connected with his spiritual activities or any contribution of writings or articles except what he wrote ...
... known to the artists and art critics that Nandlal Bose has done Buddhist paintings in Ceylon and has worked in the Kirti—Mandir at Baroda. Very few know that he decorated two pandals of the Indian National Congress with local simple colours with great success. They have not neglected the folk-arts and tempera of earth-colours. Page 78 Consider only the mythological series of Nandlal ...
... judge at several places in western India, such as Thane and Bombay. After his retirement he authored several Bengali storybooks; and in 1928 he was entrusted with writing a history of the Indian National Congress which he accomplished with credit. Born twenty years after the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 he was a revolutionary at heart and joined the Revolutionary Movement. When queried, Sri Aurobindo confirmed ...
... most liberal Civilian and became a leading champion of Indian nationalism. He is the author of a book, New India. India. He was elected to be the President of the 20th session of the Indian National Congress held in Bombay in 1904. It was in his Presidential address delivered at this session of the Congress that he visualized for the first time the ideal of "a Federation of free and separate states ...
... between the Moderates and Nationalists. Fourthly. The 'Grand Old Man' as Dadabhai Naoroji was called —he was then eighty-two years old —was persuaded to be the President of the 22 nd Indian National Congress. The attendance at the sessions was quite impressive for those days: 1663 delegates and an audience of 20,000. A tumultuous enthusiasm greeted his words when in his Presidential address Dadabhai ...
... brandishing long sticks, they came, striking at any head that looked to them Moderate, and in another moment, between brown legs standing upon the green-baize table, I caught glimpses of the Indian National Congress dissolving in chaos." When the young Mahrattas in a body charged up to the platform, the Moderate leaders fled. "I never saw such a human race I" Tilak was borne off by his followers ...
... native arts and crafts to stem the flooding of European goods into Indian markets. The Hindu Mela (National Exhibition) was started under his inspiration "a full quarter of a century before the Indian National Congress 1. Or Sal, a valuable Indian timber tree. Page 81 thought of an Indian Industrial Exhibition." The Hindu Mela was a public gathering held every year from 1867 ...
... India,' belonged to the Parsi community and was a rich businessman of Bombay. Liberal in his outlook, he took great interest in the public affairs of India and was elected President of the Indian National Congress at its second session held in Calcutta in 1886. He became the first Indian to be elected a member of the House of Commons in England on a ticket of the Liberal party. This win was despite ...
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