Mitra, Dinabandhu : Rai Bahadur (1830-73): educated at Hare School & the Hindu College, while still a student contributed Bengali articles to Vidyasāgar’s Saṃbad Pravākar: posted as Patna’s Postmaster 1855: Inspector of Post Offices in Orissa 1857 & then Nadia & Dacca: at Dacca published his novel Neel Darpan (the Mirror of Indigo) which was translated into English in 1860 under the superintendence of Rev. James Long of Church Missionary Society: Supernumerary Inspecting Postmaster of Calcutta 1870: accompanied Viceroy Mayo’s Lushai expedition (1871-72) as Superintendent of Postal Intelligence: made Rai Bahadur 1872. [Buckland]
... and Hitler know what Hitler will do next," so only God and Pattabhi know what Gandhi will do? (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Like Dinabandhu Mitra writing an epilogue to Bankim's novels? SRI AUROBINDO: How is that? NIRODBARAN: As soon as Bankim had finished a novel, Mitra used to come out with a conclusion imitating Bankim's manner, style, etc. Bankim said that he wouldn't be able to write any more ...
... circle of original geniuses; his time fell between the heroes of the Renascence and the feebler Epigoni of our day. But he had contemporary with him men of extraordinary talent, men like Dinabandhu Mitra and Dwarkanath Mitra, men so to speak of the second tier. Bankim was the last of the original geniuses. Since then the great impulse towards originality has gone backward like a receding wave. After Bankim... Vidyasagara, scholar, sage and intellectual dictator, laboured hugely like the Titan he was, to create a new Bengali language and a new Bengali society, while in vast and original learning Rajendra Lal Mitra has not met his match. Around these arose a class of men who formed a sort of seed-bed for the creative geniuses, men of fine critical ability and appreciative temper, scholarly, accomplished, learned ...
... set of administrators than the Hindu civilians of Bengal. At Jessore his life was chequered by a great boon and a great sorrow. It was here that he made fast his friendship with the dramatist Dinabandhu Mitra, which remained close-soldered to the end, and it was here that his young wife died. At Kanthi, the next stage of his official wanderings, he married again and more fortunately. Khulna, the third ...
... institutions; Dr. Trailokyanath Mitra and Raja Digambar Mitra, once well-known figures in Bengal's political life; Raja Dr. Rajendralal Mitra, the famous antiquarian and author of The Aryan Vernacular of India; and Mahamahopadhyaya Dinabandhu Nyayaratna, the eminent Sanskrit scholar. The Ghoses of Konnagar were a no less distinguished family than the Mitras. Perhaps all the Ghoses "came... (otherwise known as the Bhagirathi), it is about eleven miles to the north of Calcutta. Konnagar is apparently a place of considerable antiquity, for it is mentioned in old Bengali literature. The Mitras and the Ghoses of Konnagar have carved out creditable names for themselves in the political and cultural history of Bengal. Among the many outstanding men who have sprung up from the fertile cultural... and David Hare, Rajnarain Bose was an early synthesis of the East and the West, and in the heyday of his hallowed life "represented the high water-mark of the * I am indebted to Sisirkumar Mitra of Sri Aurobindo Ashram for much of the information contained in this section. Page 25 composite culture of the country — Vedantic, Islamic and European" .* He has been called "the militant ...
... Gupta, Sekal O Ekal by Rajnarayan Bose, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Chandidas, Jnanadas, the Dramatical Works of Amritalal Bose, the Poetical Works of Govindadas, a collection of poems by Dinabandhu Mitra, Bengali Sonnets by Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Ananda Math by Bankim Chandra, Goray Galad by Rabindranath Tagore, etc. Page 60 "Aurobindo read Bankim Chandra's novels by himself... parts of India go there to worship the symbolic image of Shiva, carrying with them pots of pure Ganges water from long distances to pour upon the Deity. Basanti Devi, daughter of Krishna Kumar Mitra and a cousin to Sri Aurobindo, says about him: "Auro Dada used to arrive with two or three trunks, and we always thought they must contain costly suits and other articles of luxury like scents etc... is a mystic fire and light in them. They penetrate into the beyond.' And he added: 'If Joan of Arc heard heavenly voices, Aurobindo probably sees heavenly visions.'" The Liberator by Sisir Kumar Mitra. Page 55 close-fitting Indian jacket, his feet shod in old-fashioned Indian slippers with upturned toes, a face sparsely dotted with pock-marks - who could have thought that this man ...
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