Manchester : was the nucleus of the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester, England. “Great Britain regarded India as an agricultural reservoir & a market for British goods, which were admitted duty free. Indian manufactures were barred from England by high tariffs; native handicrafts, esp. textile weaving, were forcibly & systematically destroyed.” [Columbia Encyclopaedia, Col. Univ. Press, 1950] Pax Britannica destroyed India’s unsurpassed handicraft & textile industries & architectural abilities all too often by cutting off the artisans’ hands – some of them, according to native tradition were even walled up alive. The Pax prospered by strangling the natives’ genius by inhuman taxes, duties, & legislation, then making them pay for their own emasculation. Thus ensured, England’s Industrial Revolution, reached its peak in the 19th century with the development of its industries. The easy supply of water, power & coal for Manchester’s factories, roads, canals, railways, made Lancashire County, a commercial centre of textile trade; as a result its population density, quality & conditions of life were the worst in all England in the days when Sri Aurobindo & his brothers lived there between 1879 & 1883/84 as wards of the Drewetts.
... Sri Aurobindo for All Ages II: Manchester and St. Paul’s School, London (1879-1890) AT MANCHESTER, the boys were readily given shelter by the Drewett family: Rev. Drewett, his wife and his elderly mother. Before he left, Dr. Ghose gave strict instructions that his sons should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indians or to undergo any Indian... Indian influence. Sri Aurobindo was to stay in England for the next fourteen years, from 1879 to 1893. The first five years were spent at Manchester, the next six in London and the last three mostly at Cambridge. During his entire stay, he was virtually cut off from his motherland, the only contact being through occasional letters, newspapers and a few acquaintances at Cambridge. As he was to write... entire ignorance of India, her people, her religion and culture'. But love of the motherland was ingrained in him and, at the destined hour, it burst into flame. The two elder brothers joined the Manchester Grammar School, but Auro was coached at home by Rev. Drewett, an accomplished scholar in Latin and English. His wife taught the boy arithmetic, geography and French. It took Mr. Drewett little time ...
... that time." ¹ He felt infinitely relieved when he got back to Manchester. The Rev. W. H. Drewett was in pastoral charge in 1879² but in 1881 he resigned his living on account of differences with the deacons. ³ He is mentioned in the Church register in 1882 as staying in Manchester but "without pastoral charge". So he was in Manchester up to 1882, but later on, before 1884, he seems to have immigrated... impossible to know how he lived with the Drewetts in Manchester All we have are some unimportant details in the life of a versatile student who became a great seer in his later life; but it is better to have something authentic rather than be left with vague conjecture. Aurobindo's life in England falls into four distinct periods: Manchester, from 1879 to September 1884. London, from September... leave them with Rev. William H. Drewett, a cousin of Mr. Glazier, who lived in Manchester. Mr. Drewett was congregational minister of the Stockport Road Church – now known as the Octagonal Church. He lived at 84, Shakespeare Street, near the church. Aurobindo's two elder brothers were of school-going age and joined the Manchester Grammar School, while Aurobindo, who was only seven, and probably considered ...
... father is partly responsible for that." "How? He had wanted to turn you into westernised gentlemen." "Just westernised! My goodness! When he left the three of us at the house of Mr. Drewett in Manchester, he Page 15 requested the latter, specifically, not to let us meet any Indians or read any Indian books and newspapers so that we might become full-Hedged sahibs. Though afterwards he... later." "You seem to put off many things! You're sure you won't forget them by then?" Sri Aurobindo laughed. "You'll remind me, if I do so, won't you? Now back to our story. Father left us at Manchester and our mother in London and then returned home. That was the last time I saw him." "Last time? Why?" "Because he died just before I came back, and this is partly due to me." "How is that... you are not old enough to understand the aesthetics of the sari. Anyway, let's talk of other things. Where was I? Oh yes! So Father came back home, leaving our mother in London and us brothers in Manchester. Barin was born in a few months' time. You must have heard about his later career. He might have been hanged from the gallows." "How's that?" "Well, in all the films about Swadeshi and Independence ...
... brother, Beno, in Manchester. For instance, when did he join the Grammar School there? Was he also privately coached by the Drewetts, like his younger brother Mano, before entering Page 127 Manmohan and Benoybhusan (probably with Rev. W. Drewett) in Manchester around 1882 Page 128 the School? Because, they were in Manchester by the second half... religion and her culture. In Manchester, apart from the people at home he knew only the Bentleys of York who occasionally visited the Drewetts, and a sister of Rev. Drewett's who used to come to see her family. These visits were returned. And, of course, old mother Drewett lived with them. She seems to have been a woman with a streak of cheerless religiosity. Manchester was then one of England's... residential areas of the wealthy middle class. A street in the wealthier districts of Manchester at the end of the last century Page 124 Sri Aurobindo was too young to join the Grammar School like his elder brothers, but was taught at home. "I never went to the Manchester Grammar School," said Sri Aurobindo, correcting an erroneous statement, "never even stepped inside ...
... and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes School Studies Between 1880 and 1884 Sri Aurobindo attended the grammar school at Manchester. I never went to the Manchester Grammar school, never even stepped inside it. It was my two brothers who studied there. I was taught privately by the Drewetts. Mr Drewett who was a scholar in Latin (he had been... Aurobindo studied in the Manchester Grammar School for a period of about five years.... The Head Master of St. Paul's from the first entertained a very high opinion of Aurobindo's character and attainments. [ First sentence altered to: ] Aurobindo studied at home, learning Latin, French and other subjects from Mr and Mṛṣ Drewett. Sri Aurobindo never went to Manchester Grammar School, it was his... had not yet begun to learn, put him at once from the lower into the higher school. There was no admiration expressed about his character. [ Another version: ] Sri Aurobindo never went to Manchester Grammar School. His two brothers studied there, but he himself was educated privately by Mr and Mrs Drewett. Drewett was an accomplished Latin scholar; he did not teach him Greek, but grounded him ...
... to Great Britain. A friend, the British magistrate of Rangpur, had given him the address of an excellent person to look after the boys: the Reverend William H. Drewett, Congregational minister at Manchester. And that is where Doctor K.D. Bose left his sons, with the recommendation that they would be allowed to choose their own religion when reaching the years of discernment, and with the strict instruction... instruction that all things Indian would be kept far from them. ‘I knew nothing about India or her culture,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo in reference to these years. Gentleman and Scholar Manchester, centre of the cotton industry, was the second most important English city, the symbol of the new industrial society and the image of the world’s future. ‘It was the shock city of its age, busy, noisy and... for humans. Young Aravinda must have seen some of those horrors from nearby. The Reverend Drewett and his wife took excellent care of the three Indian brothers. Benoybhusan and Manmohan joined Manchester Grammar School, but Aravinda was taught by the Drewetts themselves, and very well indeed, as his success in his future studies would bear out. The Rev. Drewett, a scholar in Latin (he had been a ...
... 1874 Boycott was advocated as a step to revive Indian industries which had been ruined by British commercial policy in this country. The idea of Boycott of Manchester cloth was preached during 1875-76 and again in 1878 on account of Manchester hostility to the newly started Indian mills in Bombay. Again, during 1883-84 when popular feelings ran very high as a sequel to the Anti-Ilbert Bill agitation... who formed the majority community there, and their condition bettered. But the very people of East Bengal for whom the change was proposed would have none of it. Sir Henry Cotton wrote in the Manchester Guardian of England on the 5th of April, 1904: "The idea of the severance of the oldest and most populous and wealthy portion of Bengal and the division of its people into two arbitrary sections... visible between every line, but it was so skillfully written that no legal action could be taken.... " 91 S. K. Ratcliffe, editor of the Statesman of Calcutta, wrote the following letter to the Manchester Guardian: "We know Aurobindo Ghose only as a revolutionary nationalist and editor of a flaming newspaper which struck a ringing note in Indian daily nationalism.... (It) was full of leading and ...
... Aurobindo went to England as a child of seven in 1879. He lived in Manchester until 1884, when he went to London to study at St. Paul's School. From there he went to Cambridge in 1890. Three years later he returned to India, and until 1906 lived and worked in the princely state of Baroda. He began writing poetry in Manchester, and continued Page 691 in London, Cambridge and... Poem Published in 1883 Light . Published 1883. Asked in 1939, "When did you begin to write poetry?", Sri Aurobindo replied: "When my two brothers and I were staying at Manchester. I wrote for the Fox family magazine. It was an awful imitation of somebody I don't remember." The only English journal having a name resembling "the Fox family magazine" is Fox's Weekly... in "the Fox family magazine". The poem's stanza is an imitation of the one used by P. B. Shelley in the well-known lyric "The Cloud". Sri Aurobindo remarked in 1926 that as a child in Manchester, he went through the works of Shelley again and again. He also wrote that he read the Bible "assiduously" while living in the house of his guardian, William H. Drewett, a Congregationalist ...
... and their sister, Sarojini, to England. The boys were entrusted to an English family, the Rev. William Drewett, a congregational minister, and Mrs. Drewett, who lived at 84, Shakespeare Street, Manchester. Mr. Drewett was a cousin of a magistrate at Rungpur, Mr. Glazier, with whom Dr. Krishnadhan was on friendly terms. Page 29 He left strict instructions with the Drewetts that the... but in the birth register, his name was as "Emmanuel Ghose", another instance of Dr. Krishnadhan's predilection for European names! While Sri Aurobindo's two elder brothers were sent to the Manchester Grammar School, Sri Aurobindo himself — he was only seven — was educated privately by the Drewetts. Himself an accomplished scholar, Mr. Drewett gave Sri Aurobindo a good grounding in Latin and... wrote some verse for the Fox's Weekly. While games did not appeal to him, he seems to have played cricket in Mr. Drewett's garden, though not at all well. An interesting incident of the Manchester period is worth recording. Once when a meeting of non-conformist ministers was being held at Cumberland, old Mrs. Drewett (Mr. Drewett's mother) took Sri Aurobindo there. To continue in Sri ...
... fourteen years, from 1879 to 1893, Sri Aurobindo lived in England, partly at Manchester, partly in London, and finally at Cambridge. Since even at home, in India, Krishnadhan had employed an English nurse, Miss Pagett, Sri Aurobindo had no—or very little knowledge of—Bengali when he arrived in England. At Manchester, he stayed with friends of his father, the Rev William H. Drewett and Mrs... father, from the Page 6 influence of Indians and Indian ways. Sri Aurobindo and his two brothers grew up practically as English children. After five years at Manchester, Sri Aurobindo proceeded to St Paul's School, London, in 1884 and remained there for another six years. He was an apt pupil in every way and secured the Butterworth Prize for Literature and the Bedford ...
... boys for friends and companions, for it was a school meant only for European children. Page 4 Sri Aurobindo (seated right) with his parents, brothers and sister at Manchester, 1879 Sri Aurobindo in England Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghosh, who "was determined that his children should receive an entirely European upbringing", took his three sons ³ to England... the letter" and Sri Aurobindo "grew up in entire ignorance of India, her people, her religion and her culture." 4 Sri Aurobindo's elder brothers, Benoy Bhusan and Manmohan, were sent to Manchester Grammar School, while Sri Aurobindo, being too young, was "educated privately by Mr.and Mrs. Drewett." "Drewett was an accomplished Latin scholar". He taught Sri Aurobindo Latin and English, while... of them. Not a mental idea, but a kind of inner feeling was growing within him that he had some great work to do, a mission to fulfil. Sri Aurobindo "gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's; but even at St. Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and 3. The whole family went to England - Dr. Ghosh, Mrs. Ghosh, and their ...
... Aurobindo. Detailed examination of Udbodhan: 1. In the issue of Vaishakh 1347, Girija says that Sri Aurobindo attended a grammar school in Manchester between 1880-1884. This is not true. He never attended any school at Manchester. 2. K. D. Ghose sent his sons to England. That, according to to Girija, is responsible for Sri Aurobindo's greatness. He forgets that many fathers sent... been unconsciously inaccurate at several places. I shall point out here some inaccuracies from the Preface of Mr. Deshpande: 1. He says that Sri Aurobindo attended a grammar school at Manchester. He never went to any such school. 2. He says that Sri Aurobindo learnt Sanskrit from one Bhasker Shashtri Joshi. In fact Sri Aurobindo began Sanskrit in England and continued his studies ...
... travelled to school on foot or by bus. We do not know if they felt happier at their new environment. London, then the world's biggest city and port, no doubt had better sights to offer than Manchester, with its palaces, museums, abbeys and cathedrals. But in all likelihood, the brothers had little opportunity to admire these, as they spent most of their time in the suburbs, where lines of stiff... elected to take charge of St. Paul's in 1876; at the time the school was not flourishing. The choice of the school's governing body fell on Dr. Walker who had distinguished himself in running the Manchester Grammar School. It seems quite plausible, therefore, that Walker and Drewett were quite well known to each other. And, surely, before departing for Australia, Rev. Drewett wanted to leave his wards... Frederick William Walker (1830-1910), St. Paul's School began to thrive. His brain, his toil and his devotion made the school an educational institution of renown. He had been the High Master of the Manchester Grammar School from 1859 to 1876, and served St. Paul's from 1876 to 1905. From St. Paul's, Manmohan went up to Christ Church, Oxford, on a scholarship, joining it in October 1887. He obtained ...
... on August 15, 1872. In 1879, at the age of seven, he was taken with his two elder brothers to England for education and lived there for fourteen years. Brought up at first in an English family at Manchester, he joined St. Paul's School in London in [1884] 1 and in 1890 went from it with a senior classical scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied for two years. In 1890 he passed... education in England gave him a wide introduction to the culture of ancient, of mediaeval and of modern Europe. He was a brilliant scholar in Greek and Latin. He had learned French from his childhood in Manchester and studied for himself German and Italian sufficiently to read Goethe and Dante in the original tongues. (He passed the Tripos in Cambridge in the first division and obtained record marks in Greek ...
... considered as setting the secret basic rhythm to the life of the boy from Bengal who had been taken out of India in 1881 when seven years old, tutored privately at first in an English family at Manchester, sent later to St. Paul's School in London and finally to King's College at Cambridge. The slowly unfolding answer to this query is the tale Professor K.R.Srinivasa Iyengar has to tell... these ancient languages that lie at the very foundation of European culture. Among Europe's modern languages, he has been intimately acquainted Page 73 with French from his early Manchester years. Nor are Italian and German any strangers: he rubs shoulders with Dante and Goethe in the original. The speech of Calderon too is on more than nodding terms with him: I am told that once ...
... boycott foreign goods. We are simply following the same policy as other Governments. We will not use the manufactured articles of Manchester. We want to develop the cotton industry in India. The whole of India will be employed for producing our own goods. We shall not use Manchester goods at all; we shall use goods produced and manufactured in our country. The object of the boycott of foreign goods is se ...
... "Yes, what about them?" asked Charu. "He has the eyes of a madman!" Charu took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad but a Karmayogi! PURANI: Nevinson, the correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, said that you never laughed. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. I met him twice, once in Bengal at Subodh Mullick's place. I was very serious at that time. The next occasion was when I was president... feeblest of mortals, Carrying Fate in his helpless hands and the doom of an empire. NIRODBARAN: When did you begin to write poetry? SRI AUROBINDO: When my two brothers and I were staying at Manchester. I wrote for the Fox family magazine. It was an awful imitation of somebody I don't remember. Then I went to London where I began really to write; some of the verses are published in Songs to Myrtilla ...
... and tradition – a free spirit. The first lesson Sri Aurobindo gives us is perhaps, precisely, a lesson of freedom. Sri Aurobindo and his two brothers were entrusted to an Anglican clergyman of Manchester, with strict instruction that they should not be allowed the acquaintance of any Indian or undergo any Indian influence. 4 Dr. Ghose was indeed a peculiar man. He also ordered Pastor Drewett... hardly anything to eat or wear in London), and he died of shock when he was mistakenly Page 7 informed that his favorite son, Aurobindo, had died in a shipwreck. The first few years in Manchester were of some importance to Sri Aurobindo because this is where he learned French (English was his "mother tongue") and discovered a spontaneous affinity for France: There was an attachment to English ...
... Smt. Lahori Chatterjee) 121 Krishna Dhan, Swarnalata and their four children in England in 1879 (Nirmal Nahar's collection) 124 A street in Manchester at the end of the last century 128 Manmohan and Benoybhusan in Manchester (courtesy Smt, Lahori Chatterjee) 135 A street in central London late last century 146 A lake in the Lake District early this century ...
... Indian Civil Service (ICS), the highest and highly valued position an Indian could attain under the colonial regime. At first the three brothers stayed with the family of a Congregational minister at Manchester, the centre and model of the industrial revolution, where Aravinda received an excellent private education. “I knew nothing of India and her culture”, he would write later. In the young boy, a precocious... an enormous change for Aravinda to find himself in the princely but culturally backward Baroda of the end of the nineteenth century after having lived for more than thirteen years in places like Manchester, London and Cambridge. In due course he became at the Baroda College lecturer in French, professor of English and Vice-Principal. The prince also used him as his unofficial private secretary, especially ...
... Rangpur, he had become friendly with the English magistrate there, a Mr. Glazier, and the latter had arranged with his cousin, Rev. Drewett, a minister at Manchester, to take charge of the boys. Accordingly, Dr. Ghose took his boys to Manchester to live with the Drewetts. ...
... As to what place the Bande Mataram occupied in 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... the responsibility belonged to the board. The Government could therefore not prosecute one single individual. Whenever something was found objectionable by the Government someone ¹. The Manchester Guardian , Weekly Edition, 26 December 1950. ². Sri Aurobindo, Karmayogin (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), p. 62. Page 90 could come forward to accept the ...
... Cambridge was writing English poetry to' which he had devoted much of his time the last two years he was at St. Paul's School. Sri Aurobindo's lifelong poetical career, let us recollect, began in Manchester when he wrote for the Fox Family Magazine — "an awful imitation of somebody I don't remember." Brother Mano was also a contributor to the Family Magazine. "Then I went to London," said Sri Aurobindo... arrived with their mother. So I saw them even in their earlier days." Rabindranath was there for his studies; his first sojourn in England being from November 1878 to late 1880; he was in fact in Manchester in 1879, when the three brothers came there. "I renewed my acquaintance with Manmohan after his return to India —through my own poetry. I was reading my Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat) on the verandah ...
... separately into lodgings until he took up residence at Cambridge. Aurobindo now turned the full fury of his attention to classical studies ... Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at Saint Paul's; but even at St Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and spent most of his spare time in general reading, especially English poetry, literature ...
... and remained there consecutively for fourteen years, speaking English and thinking in English and no other tongue. He was educated in French and Latin and other subjects under private tuition in Manchester from seven to eleven and studied afterwards in St Paul's School London for about seven years. From there he went to King's College. He had never to study English at all as a subject; though it was ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes At Manchester He was sensitive to beauty in man and nature.... He watched with pain the thousand and one instances of man's cruelty to man. The feeling was more abhorrence than pain; from early childhood there was a strong hatred and disgust for all kinds of ...
... life. There was never any talk about the reconstruction of India, only about her liberation. He played cricket well. Never. He only played cricket as a small boy in Mr Drewett's garden at Manchester and not at all well. It was at Sardar Majumdar's place that he first met Yogi Lele and got some help from him in spiritual Sadhana. No. Lele came from Gwalior in answer to a wire from Barin ...
... Gift of Understanding 3) The Vedanta Society of Southern California or their translation of the Chandogya Upanishad by Swam; Prabhavananda and Frederick Manchester 4) Pondicherry International Salon of Photography, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. for the following photographs ...
... Darjeeling. 1878,Feb. 21 - Mother is born in Paris. 1879,June -Sri Aurobindo leaves India for England with his parents and 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 ...
... The attitude of British statesmen, moreover, is not encouraging even to the Moderates who still think of getting rights marked "Made in Great Britain" in the same consignment with Liverpool salt or Manchester piece-goods. The hand on the dial will be put back if we leave the nation and check the growing spirit of self-help and self-exertion to go and beg for "rights" in England and spend on this fruitless ...
... in India. Bengal must remain united. Mr. Ghose proceeded to say that the national movement was Page 274 beset with manifold difficulties. Holding up before the audience a piece of Manchester cloth, stamped with the words "Bande Mataram", he exclaimed that the great cause was suffering on account of certain unprincipled men who were trying to assail the Swadeshi movement from all sides ...
... Another significance of their meeting may be read on the cultural plane. Sri Aurobindo, hailing from India, was educated in England from his seventh to his twenty-first year — at the start privately in Manchester, later at St. Paul's School in London and finally at King's College, Cambridge. He became not only a master of English but also an extraordinary scholar of Greek and Latin. He grew perfectly familiar ...
... would not learn his mother tongue until many years later. In 1879 Dr Ghose took his three young sons to England. There he entrusted their upbringing and education to a broad-minded, learned pastor in Manchester, with the strict instruction that the boys should be shielded from any contact with their motherland, its culture and its religions. Later Aravinda would study at the renowned St. Paul’s School in ...
... his valour, is the human being par excellence and the head of the human race; the others, a vile mixture of barbarians, are by way of speaking no more than its embryo. Charles White, a surgeon in Manchester, was of much the same opinion, for he wrote in 1799: “Climbing up the ladder, we arrive at last at the white European who, being the furthest removed from the animal creation, can therefore be considered ...
... of their passing an entrance examination. This was only practicable for those who had been studying in Great Britain. And so it came to pass, in 1879, that Dr Ghose took his three eldest sons to Manchester, then the most populous city in the United Kingdom. The boys were put into the care of the Reverend William H. Drewett, with the explicit order that they must be kept away from anything or anybody ...
... Elspeth Huxley1 spoke on the BBC: "I am lost in admiration at Mr. Durrell's superb use of details... and, above all, at his sheer imagination." The Times 2 hailed this novel as "a delight" and the Manchester Guardian 3 as "masterly". But Durrell is far indeed from writing a plain hand. Richard Mayne, 4 in the Sunday Times , declares: "His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity." And even Pamela ...
... game by prosecuting me and forcing me to be publicly known and a "leader".' Around this time Henry Nevinson, author and journalist, who had come out to India as a special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian of London, met Sri Aurobindo for an interview. In his book The New Spirit of India, he records his impressions of Sri Aurobindo: 'Intent dark eyes looked from his thin, clear-cut face ...
... there was prosperity for British cotton industry there was ruin for millions of Indian craftsmen and artisans. India's manufacturing towns were blighted as in the case of Dacca, once known as the Manchester of India; Murshidabad, which was once Bengal's old capital, was described in 1757 as at least as extensive, populous, and rich as London. Millions of spinners, and weavers were forced to seek a ...
... reborn—with the Renaissance. It was as strongly and vehemently negative and protestant in its nature as it was positive and affirmative. For its 1 . Only the other day I found a critic in The Manchester Guardian referring to The Gita as something frigid (and confused)! 2 Humoni nihil a me alienum puto.— Terence. Page 160 fundamental character—that which gave it its very name—-was ...
... formula about India's internal differences. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, these Labour leaders seem to be useless as regards India. In their own affairs they can exert pressure on the Government. Even the Manchester Guardian defends Jinnah. It doesn't know enough about India, it seems. NIRODBARAN: That paper sometimes takes this side and sometimes that side. SRI AUROBINDO: If the Congress had agreed to ...
... attitude. PURANI: It seems Grig is against any wide reforms. SRI AUROBINDO: It is the resistance of Simla that stands in the way, I am sure the English people would give larger terms. The Manchester Guardian describes the Viceroy as rigid and asks Amery to visit India. ...
... with him, appreciating his inquisitiveness and his refusal to gulp down docilely all that was given to him. When I told Sri Aurobindo that he would not allow his old dusty heaps of the journal, Manchester Guardian to be removed, Sri Aurobindo approved of his feelings. One day the Mother said, "Once when you were fanning Sri Aurobindo, I had a vision of the patient crying to you, 'Why don't you cure ...
... to the Aristotelian tradition of Socratic teaching. Humanism proper was born – or reborn – with the Renaissance. ------------------- * Only the other day I found a critic in the Manchester Guardian referring to the Gita as something frigid and confused !! Page 163 It was as strongly and vehemently negative and protestant in its nature, on one side, as it was positive ...
... Attlee, Clement, 260fh AUROBINDO, SRI, 16ff; on Rajnarain Bose, 26, 38, 52; on his father Krishnadhan, 26-27; birth, 28; name, 28, 30, 38; at the Darjeeling School, 28; at Manchester, 30ff; time of privation, 31; Senior Classical Scholarship, 31; holidays with Manmohan, 32ff; success in ICS examinations, 33; at King's College, 33ff; Oscar Browning on, 33-34; member of ...
... Bengal, and the effects were to be felt in almost every part of the country. As Sir Henry Cotton, who had retired after serving the Bengal Government under seven Lieutenant-Governors, wrote in the Manchester Guardian of 5 April 1904: The idea of the severance of the oldest and most populous and wealthy portion of Bengal and the division of its people into two arbitrary sections has given such ...
... father was Civil Surgeon. 1877-79 At Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling, where he Wad his first direct experience of a supernatural character. 1879-84 In Manchester with his father's friends, tie Drewetts. Striking proficiency in Latin acquired at home, for which he was admitted P a higher class in the school. 1882 Had an intimation of ...
... abandon his idea of invading Britain, the Luftwaffe sporadically continued its aerial warfare and among the cities receiving special attention were London, Coventry, Southampton, Bristol, Sheffield and Manchester. There was punitive counteraction too, and so the War entered 1941, extended to North Africa, and caused widespread destruction and dislocation. The seesaw between attack and counter-attack went ...
... of any of his three editorial colleagues. It was nevertheless an editor of the Statesman, S.K. Ratcliffe, who aid a "lowing tribute to Sri Aurobindo over forty years later. Writing to the Manchester Guardian in December 1950, Ratcliffe said that he knew Aurobindo Ghose as "a revolutionary nationalist and editor of a flaming newspaper which struck a ringing new note in Indian daily journalism" ...
... does not speak very fluently & accurately yet, is work- English often extraordi- narily good. Improving. That Sri Aurobindo gave his attention to the classics at Manchester and at St. Paul's, we now know. But "even at St Paul's in the last three years he simply went through his school course and spent most of his spare time in general reading, especially English poetry ...
... wonderful charm of their own and come to us laden with a thousand beautiful associations. The pursuit of mere originality can only lead us to such unpardonable extravagances as "haunches stir" & "Manchester". Such rhymes any poet can multiply who chooses to prostitute his genius to the amusement of the gallery, or is sufficiently unpoetic to prefer the freedom of barbarous uncouthness to that self-denial ...
... will not be long before God throws His into the other. The purpose of the ages is not going to be frustrated by section 108A or the destinies of the nations stopped in their inevitable march because Manchester cotton-spinners want a market for their wares. Prosecute free speech, deny the heart of a nation its utterance; but will you stop the fire of a volcano by covering over its crater? The fire is elemental ...
... names of Shakespeare and Milton, Mill and Bacon, Nelson and Wellington. They did not visit the sickroom, they did not do philanthropic work in the parishes, they did not work spinning jennies in Manchester, they did not produce cutlery in Sheffield, but theirs are the names which have made nationhood possible in England, which have supplied work and enterprise with its motive and sustaining force. ...
... writer strikes is one which was long ago raised by Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal on similar grounds. The danger of an invasion of our market by British capital on a gigantic scale, the transference of Manchester to the banks of the Hughly is not a danger of the immediate moment. But in the future, if the pressure of a spreading Boycott and the growth of Indian industry on English trade with India becomes ...
... Latin, [passed the Tripos in Cam bridge in the first division, obtained record marks in Greek and Latin in the examination for the Indian Civil Service.] He had learned French from his childhood in Manchester and studied for himself Italian and German sufficiently to read Dante and Goethe in the original tongue." I have left the detail about the Tripos and the record Page 36 marks ...
... 45 that — my smilelessness — you are bound to overcome all the other difficulties also." Henri W. Nevinson, the well-known author, came to India in 1907 as a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian and his book entitled The New Spirit in India published in 1908 made a deep impression not only on Indians but; on the British bureaucracy as well, because he was not only gifted with ...
... newspapers no less than at literary journals such as the New Statesman, which Arjava regularly sent him and which our Lalloobhai, born malapropist, called the New Testament. Arjava also sent the Manchester Guardian, apropos of which Premanand and I speculated a little lewdly about a companion weekly, Woman-breaster Guardian . So sustaining a touch with the current world-chaos along with the ups ...
... Latin, | passed the Tripos in Cambridge in the first division, obtained record marks in Greek and Latin in the examination for the Indian Civil Service |. He had learned French from his childhood in Manchester and studied for himself Italian and German sufficiently to read Dante and Goethe in the original tongue." 2 I have left the detail about the Tripos and the record marks, though I do not find ...
... William H. Drewett (1842/3 - 1909) is not listed in Alumni Oxonienses 1715 - 1886 , the authoritative register of members of the University of Oxford. He attended Didsbury College, Manchester, in 1860 and 1861, and began work as a probationary minister in 1861 (personal communications from Wesley College, Bristol, and Wesley Historical Society, London). In 1859 and 1860 he was a sc ...
... praises a book and another condemns it. SRI AUROBINDO: I find nothing extraordinary in that. NIRODBARAN: In the New Statesman and Nation Anthony West runs down Priestley's new book while the Manchester Guardian praises it. So also with Huxley's After Many a Summer . Anthony West calls it a spiritual failure. SRI AUROBINDO: West is a rationalist. He won't hear of mysticism. Anything that does ...
... coarse kind of cotton cloth which was used to make garments for Indians. It was a gesture of self-reliance and an economic blow to the British enterprise of importing machine-manufactured cloth from Manchester. 197Spin the thread (to make cloth at home)! Boycott the Prince of Wales! Wear homespun cloth! 198Congratulations! Good job! Keep it up! - in Hindi. Page 138 all walks ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 2 AUGUST 1940 PURANI: Have you read the review of a book on Russia in the last Manchester Guardian? It says that some Englishmen who worked in Russia think that an alliance between Russia and England is not possible; it is possible between Russia and Germany. Between themselves they have divided their spheres. Hitler ...
... The Daily Mail for its Curly Wee cartoon. He kept his interest in it till the end though he found it getting stale and dry. In the evening, the Weekly New Statesman and Nation , sometimes the Manchester Guardian , used to be read by Purani; later on it came to be my job, but it stopped after a while. It was probably through these media that he maintained his contact with the details of the fast-changing ...
... Madhusudan Dutt, 120, 197 Mahabharata, the, 188,217,222 Mahalakshmi, 275 Mahasaraswati,271 Mahashakti, 327 Maheshwari, 275 Maitreyi, 160 Manchester Guardian, the, 163n Mao-tse-Tung,242 Mara,280 Mars, 323 Maruts, 222 Marx, 128 -Dos Kapital, 118 Marxism, 326 Mathura, 91 Maupassant ...
... and the women threatened. Muslim hooligans had let loose a reign of terror against defenceless Hindus in the countryside of East Bengal. H.W. Nevison who visited India as a representative of The Manchester Guardian, reported: "Priestly Mullahs went through the country preaching the revival of Islam and proclaiming to the villagers that the British Government was on the Mohammedan side, that the Law ...
... reborn – with the Renaissance. It was as strongly and vehemently negative and protestant in its nature as it was positive and affirmative. For its 1 Only the other day I found a critic in The Manchester Guardian referring to The Gila as something frigid (and confused)! 2 umanii nihil a me alienum puto. – Ter ence. Page 239 fundamental character – that which gave it its ...
... -De Rerum Natura, 52 Luther, 273 HUCHCHANDA, 162 Mahabharata, the, 73, 235 Maitreyi, 105 Malebranche, 286 Mallarme, 66, 88, 152 -"Les Fleurs", 66n Mamata, 163 Manchester Guardian, 239n Manu, 159 Miira, 5 Marcellus, 173-5 Margaret, 138 Marut, 22, 28-9 Marx, 126 Mayavada,278 Mazumdar, Dipak, 213 -"Baritone", 212 Mazzini, 253 ...
... sublime epic, Savitri, through which he has sent forth his divine message to humanity. 4 Sri Aurobindo spent his impressionable years in England— Manchester, London, Cambridge—and he was thus ideally equipped to be the builder of the bridge of understanding between the people of the West and the East. Even so accomplished a writer as Sri Aurobindo, to ...
... : Yes. When people find that the opponent does not answer they lose all interest. Disciple : He says it is true he has lost touch with the reality of the external world. Now if he reads Manchester Guardian and New Stateman will it disturb his silence? Page 259 Sri Aurobindo : It depends on his mind. If he can read all these things in order to know what is going on, ...
... Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loreto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 Taken to England. 1879-1884 In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 September Admitted to St. Paul's School, London . Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's ...
... mortals, Carrying Fate in his helpless hands and the doom of an empire. Ilion Disciple : When did you begin to write poetry? Sri Aurobindo : When we three brothers were staying at Manchester. I began to write for the Fox family Magazine. Page 233 I was very young. It-was an awful imitation of somebody I don’t remember. Then I went to London where I began to write ...
... write a series of articles on Indian politics under the heading "New lamps for old" which made a great stir in the Congress of those days. 1. Sri Aurobindo did not attend any Grammar school at Manchester – as is stated in the introduction. 2. He mentions that Shivram Pant Falke taught him Marathi and Bengali. He did not learn these languages from Mr. Falke. 3. It is asserted that one "Bhasker ...
... Rangpur, East Bengal; later sent to the Loretto Convent School, Darjeeling. 1878 — February 21 Birth of the Mother in Paris. 1879 — Taken to England. 1879-1884 — In Manchester (84, Shakespeare Street) in the charge of the Drewett family. Tutored at home by the Drewetts. 1884 — September Admitted to St. Paul School, London. Takes lodgings at 49, St. Stephen's Avenue ...
... granite strength of the Himalayas of his mind, the sheer infinitudes of his spirit? Born in Calcutta thirty-seven years earlier, his Odyssey ad covered many places, many climes: Darjeeling, Manchester, London, Cambridge, Baroda - and with the return to Calcutta in 1906, the wheel had come full circle. Chandernagore was almost a new start, or more appropriately, the beginning of another upward ...
... world"? Even the explosive events of 1857 and the assumption of direct responsibility by the British Crown hardly effected a sea-change, for in a sermon delivered on 29 March 1874, the Bishop of Manchester felt compelled to make the sad admission: The question may be asked, "What have we done for India?" India has been the nursery of great soldiers, administrators, financiers, statesmen; yet even ...
... . . and another poem —and also a terribly ethical sonnet which was specially written for the moral purpose of putting into a school magazine —I was asked to write something for the 'Ulula', the Manchester Grammar School Magazine." The heat of the previous days was gone. "This morning there was a terrific thunderstorm. The thunder seemed to crack, crash, burst, and momentarily split the sky, and ...
... spirit. The Collector of Rangpur, Edward George Glazier was, as we had occasion to see, a very close friend of Dr. Ghose's. He had a clergyman cousin, Reverend William Drewett, who lived in Manchester. It was to him that Dr. Ghose brought his family. He put the three boys in the care of the Drewetts. Rev. Drewett was Congregational priest of the Stockport (now Octagonal) Church, and lived nearby ...
... daily with the name Bande Mataram," wrote Sri Aurobindo. On 6 August 1906 the declaration of Bande Mataram was filed. S. K. Ratcliffe, a previous editor of The Statesman, in a letter to the Manchester Guardian of 28 December 1950 just after the passing away of Sri Aurobindo, wrote: "We knew Aurobindo Ghose only as a revolutionary nationalist and editor of a flaming newspaper which struck a ringing ...
... reverse the flow of trade and sell its own inferior goods in India. "Had this not been the case," writes H. H. Wilson, "had not such prohibitory duties and decrees existed, the mills of Paisley and Manchester would have been stopped in their outset, and could scarcely have been again set in motion, even by the power of steam. They were created by the sacrifice of the Indian manufacture. Had India been ...
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