Mitra, Dwarakanath : (1833-74): son of a Law Agent practising in the Hugli Courts: educated at Hugli & Presidency Colleges: Fellow of Calcutta University: joined Calcutta bar as a Pleader in 1856, & when the High Court was established, distinguished himself in arguing the famous Rent case of 1865 before a full bench of 15 High Court Judges: made Govt. Pleader & promoted to the High Court Bench in 1867: retired 1874: studied Comte in original French & corresponded with some eminent European Positivists. [Buckland] ― A leading believer in the atheist Religion of Humanity as founded by the Positivist Auguste Comte, he was convinced that only the system of education introduced by Macaulay & imposed by the British Govt. could civilise his native Hindu brethren.

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Mother's Chronicles - Book Four > Raja Rammohan Roy

... 1833. He died with a dream of a free India which, he told his French friend, Victor Jacquemont, he expected to happen after some forty to fifty years. His grave is in Bristol. The edifice raised by Dwarakanath Tagore in 1843 —his grandson Rabindranath visited it in 1920 —is now crumbling. Raja Rammohan Roy never denied he was a Hindu; nor did his immediate successors. The Brahmo Movement was considered... Page 68 Indeed, by his erudition, bearing, character and contribution to culture, he made the Tagore family a centre of Indian culture. He was also uncommonly honest. His father, Dwarakanath Tagore (1794-1846), died in England. When alive, he had earned for himself the title of 'Prince' by his luxurious way of living. His lavish spending —offering costly presents and necklaces of rare... Mother's Chronicles - Book Four 9 Raja Rammohan Roy As for the British and the French, our historian, Sisir Kumar Mitra, says, "The last days of the Muslim rule were marked by political and social evils of the worst type undermining the integrity and morale of the administration, laying the country open to any aggression from outside. ...