Mukherji, Satish Chandra : (1865-1948) was appointed translator of Calcutta High Court by Justice Dwārkā Nath Mitra, a leading believer in the Religion of Humanity founded by Positivist Auguste Comte. Inspired by Ishwar Chandra Vidyāsāgara, when a student Satish & his friend Kāliprasād Chandra (later Swami Abhedananda) along with their classmate Narendra Datta (later Swami Vivekananda), attended the lectures by Pandit S. Tarka Chudamani on Śhad-Darshana (six schools of Philosophy) at the Albert Hall, presided over by Bankim Chandra Chatterji. After his M.A. from Presidency College in 1886 & B.L. in 1890, he enrolled as pleader of the Calcutta High Court. In 1887, he was appointed a Lecturer in history & economics in the Berhampore College. In September 1893, he was initiated by Bejoykrishna Goswami, & went to Benares to practice Goswami’s teaching. Later he came in contact with Ashwinikumar Datta, Sivanath Sastri, Bipin Chandra Pal, Brajendranath Seal, Asutosh Mukherjee (his class-friend), Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, & Raja Subodh Mullick. In 1897 he founded the Dawn magazine as an organ of Indian Nationalism & edited it until 1913. In 1902 he organised the “Dawn Society” of culture, to protest against the Report of the Indian Universities Commission set up by Curzon, representing the inadequate university education imposed by the Government to fabricate clerks for the merchant offices. “The cry for thorough overhauling of the whole system of University education was in the air.” The Dawn Society was a training ground of youths & a nursery of patriotism. Among its active members were Sister Nivedita, Jatin Mukherjee, Rajendra Prasad (first President of India), Haran Chakladar, Radhakumud Mukherjee, Kishorimohan Gupta (principal, Daulatpur College), Atulya Chatterjee, Rabindra Narayan Ghosh, Benoykumar Sarkar, all future celebrities. One day, Satish Chandra heard an inner voice uttering firmly: “God exists” which led him to lay emphasis on the study of Hindu life, thought & faith. In 1906, he joined Subodh Chandra Mullick in forming the National Council of Education & became a lecturer in the Bengal National College. In 1907, after Sri Aurobindo’s resignation on 2 August 1907, Satish Chandra took over as principal. In 1914, he settled in Varanasi & died there.
... needs therefore to be corrected. The Basumati practically charges the National Council with disregarding the claims of Srijut Aurobindo Ghose to reoccupy the post of Principal and Srijut Satish Chandra Mukherji, who has done so much to organize the College, with clinging to the post to the exclusion of his colleague. We are able to state the real facts. Srijut Aurobindo Ghose left the College when... onerous duties of a Principal which he had neither the time nor, as he himself thought, the necessary capacity to discharge, the post of Principal was not included in the reappointment. Srijut Satish Chandra Mukherji had no hand or voice in the matter; he had taken the post of Principal with reluctance and holds it now as a duty until it pleases the Executive Committee to relieve him. Many groundless rumours ...
... Acharya of Mymensingh was one of the vice-presidents. Then there were Subodh Chandra Mullick, Bepin Chandra Pal, Page 323 P. Mitter, Surendranath Banerji, Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Chittaranjan Das, Aravindo Ghose, Satish Chandra Mukherji, A. Rasul, Aswini Kumar Dutt, Radha Kumud Mukherji, etc. And Dr. Nilratan Sarkar, that enemy of death. Add a galaxy of eminent... Indians. These effects were apparent to others as well. To counter them Rabindranath Tagore established the Santiniketan School at Bolpur in 1901; B. B. Upadhyay was one of the first to help him. Satish Mukherji founded the Dawn Society in 1902 in Calcutta ; it sought not only to develop the students' personality and build up their character, but to awaken in them the nationalist spirit and a sense of... where about two thousand Muslims took the vow of Swadeshi. Meeting after meeting were held by public-spirited men of Bengal. Rabindranath was there, as were B.C. Pal, K.K. Mitra, C. R. Das, Satish Mukherji, Monoranjan Guha Thakurta, and scores of eminent men. It was finally decided to establish a National Council of Education. It was on 11 March 1906 that the National Council of Education, Bengal ...
... (or perhaps Principal) was Satish Chandra Mukherji, Founder-President of the Dawn Society. I had met him several years ago in the premises of the Society. Let me then narrate this earlier story in the present connection. I had just come to Calcutta and joined the First Year. Atul Gupta took me to a meeting of the Dawn Society. Benoy Sarkar was there, Radha Kumud Mukherji too was there, I think – not... would say. Satish Chandra had no doubt wanted to use this as a means of forming the character and not merely as an intellectual training, a way of moulding the life, something that had been missing in our college education. I do not know to what extent he succeeded in actual fact. This was about the middle of 19°4. It was three years later, about the middle of 1907, that I met Satish Chandra again.... his younger brother Radha Kamal who became one of my class-fellows in the Third Year after he had passed the F .A. examination from Berhampore. Here is a sketch of one of the Society's meetings. Satish Mukherji took the chair. We were about twenty or thirty young men in all. He read out a verse from the Gita: 'yad yad vibhutimat sattvam, srimad-urjitam-eva va' and gave a short explanation in a few words ...
... He also set examination papers, for instance, Fifth and Seventh Standard papers in History were set by him. Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar taught Bengali at the College. And if we don't speak of Satish Chandra Mukherji, the founder of the Dawn Society, it will be unpardonable. He was the Superintendent of the Bengal National College. Sri Aurobindo said about him in a speech he delivered at Bombay in 1908:... Revolution which ushered in the nation's battle for freedom. Every day he would go from the Bengal National College to the evening gathering at the house of one of India's patriotic martyrs Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick in Wellington Square. The gathering, by its thought and inspiration, resembled that of the French Encyclopaedists, the intellectuals who paved the way of the French Revolution. That was before ...
... Chatterjee . There is no evidence of his connection with the paper before January 1908. After that, he became one of its major writers. Satish Chandra Mukherji . Head of the National Council of Education and editor of the Dawn , Satish Chandra had little time to write for the Bande Mataram . According to Hemendra Prasad, he contributed a few articles, which were invariably accepted. ... articles published anonymously in the editorial columns of the Bande Mataram : Bipin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo, Hemendra Prasad Ghose, Shyam Sunder Chakravarti, Bijoy C. Chatterjee, Satish Mukherji and Upendranath Banerji. The following is known about the connection of these men with the paper: Bipin Chandra Pal . The founder of Bande Mataram , Pal was its editor-in-chief between 6 August... the editor-in-chief was not printed after the departure of Bipin Chandra Pal. Once, in November 1906, Sri Aurobindo's name was printed on the first page as "editor", but this lapse was not repeated. Sri Aurobindo is referred to as editor-in-chief in Hemendra Prasad Ghose's contemporary diary and in an article published by Bipin Chandra Pal in 1932. Page 1151 information on Sri ...
... feature of the movement was that several of the leaders were either Yogis themselves or disciples of Yogis — at least they were men endowed with great strength of character. Men like P. Mitter, Satish Mukherji, Bepin Pal and Manoranjan Guhathakurtha were disciples of the famous Yogi Bejoy Goswami. It was as though the soul of the race had awakened and was throwing up such fine personalities. 43 ... seems to have told Sri Aurobindo that Bankim's writing was not Bengali! 14 After coming to India, Sri Aurobindo soon learnt enough by his own efforts and was able to appreciate the novels of Bankim Chandra and the poetry of Madhusudan. Indeed, Sri Aurobindo went further still, for in 1898 he engaged a teacher Page 49 — a young Bengali litterateur by name Dinendra Kumar Roy — perhaps... The god himself of the enchanting flute, The god himself took up thy pen and wrote. 16 As for Bankim, there are two poems: the shorter 'Saraswati with the Lotus' and the longer 'Bankim Chandra Chatterji'. "Thy tears fall fast, O mother" begins the first, the emotion held taut in its six poignant lines; but the second is more elaborate: O master of delicious words! the bloom Of ...
... schools and colleges. It was started by the initiative of Satish Chandra Mukherji, the reputed educationist of the time, who had also founded the Dawn Society, and was running the English organ. Dawn, in Calcutta. Almost all the men of light and leading in the city, including Rabindranath Tagore, Hiren Datta, Sir Gooroodas Banerji, Bepin Chandra Pal etc., were among the patrons and supporters of the... Wellington Street. The Bengal National College was started in August, 1906. It was probably on his birthday, the 15th August, that Sri Aurobindo joined the College as its first Principal. Satish Chandra Mukherjee, the well-known educationist, became its Superintendent. Most of the local men of light and leading were among its organisers and active supporters. All felt the urgent need for an ... indifference. But the autocrats had reckoned without their host. The studied indifference, 5. India's Fight for Freedom by Profs. Haridas Mukherji & Uma Mukherji p. 17. We are indebted to this admirable, pioneering, research work by the Mukherjis for some historical data of great importance. Page 160 which was nothing short of callousness, added fuel to the fire - the ...
... Principalship of the New National College at Calcutta. The college opened on 14 August 1906, and Sri Aurobindo began his work there on 15 August, his birthday. On the organisation side, there was Satish Chandra Mukherjee - already associated with the Dawn Society and the National Council of Education - as Superintendent, and among the other teachers was Radhakumud Mukherjee. Sri Aurobindo had on his... brief spells in Calcutta or trips to centres like Khulna. He had accordingly to take leave from the National College again and again, and the management of the college was almost wholly relegated to Satish Mukherjee. On his return to India and during the years of his Baroda experience, Sri Aurobindo had found the British system of education disgusting: "He felt that it tended to dull and impoverish... vocation; and there was the danger of disruption of family life, and the possibility of persecution and incarceration. Revolutionaries like Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, V.V.S. Aiyar and Jatindranath Mukherji (Bagha Jatin), of course, ran even greater dangers. When the fight for independence became a mass movement the women could hardly keep (or be kept) out. In South Africa as later in India, Kasturba ...
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