Martineau : Governor of Pondicherry (July 1910-June 1911); a supporter of Bluysen in the election to the French Chamber in 1914, & himself a candidate in 1920.
... Government for government work, nobody can interfere with their going and coming. This is what I am told and it ought obviously to be so. How are your people going to vote? Martineau and Flandin are the two candidates at present and Martineau is impossible. I note with some amusement the Secretary's letter to Bejoy Chatterji. The logic of the Bengal Government's attitude is a little difficult to follow... the Page 197 real fight is between them. Bluysen has the support of the whole administration, except a certain number of Lemairistes who are quiescent and in favour of it. The Governor Martineau, Gaebelé, the Police Lieutenant & the Commissaire form his political committee. By threats & bribes the Maires of all the Communes except two have been forced or induced to declare on his side. He... u might intimidate the enemy & counteract the administration. But Nandagopalu instead of intimidating is himself intimidated; he is hiding in his house & sending obsequious messages to Gaebelé & Martineau. So great at one time was the despair of the Lemairistes, that Pierre offered through Richard to withdraw Lemaire, if Gaebelé withdraws Bluysen, the two enemies then to shake hands & unite in support ...
... to Pondicherry the diplomatic relations between the French and the English became somewhat strained. In the meantime A. Martineau 1 had replaced Levecque as the governor of French India. Moni remembered him vividly. "A simple unostentatious man was the Governor Monsieur Martineau. He often went about in a rickshaw. That was then the only rickshaw in Pondicherry. By chance one day I saw the Governor... September in The Madras Times and the anti-English movement In its conclusion, the Madras newspaper explains that the territory of Pondicherry 1 It was the same A. Martineau who edited the diaries of Francois Martin in two volumes. Page 228 now functions as a refuge to no less dangerous agitators and even to the most dangerous of all; but it hopes that... not hide from myself that this does not imply peace or surrender from the Hindu nationalists, but simply a lull, a pause in the general struggle against all English influence." Signed: A. Martineau Unable to bear all the indignities and humiliations, the Colonial government had in mid-1910, finally imposed a ban not only on India Page 229 the British administration ...
... Swadeshism, your predecessor [A. Martineau] informed me of his reasons for taking the liberty not to carry out the wishes of the Viceroy of India, who requested searches and seizure of swadeshist documents in the offices of the newspaper Dharman, in Pondicherry. "I am pleased to inform you that, whatever the nature and importance of the reasons Mr. Martineau put forward, it seems to me inadmissible ...
... on the old lines and the real fight is between them. Bluysen has the support of the whole administration, except a certain number of Lemairistes who are quiescent and in favour of it. The Governor Martineau, Gaebele, the Police Lieutenant and the Commissaries form his political committee. By threats and bribes the Maires of all the Communes [including Gaebele who "has taken huge sums from Bluysen"] ...
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