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No Compromise : “Sri Aurobindo held up always the slogan of 'no compromise' or, as he now put it in his Open Letter to his countrymen published in the Karmayogin, ‘no co-operation without control’.” [SABCL Vol.26, p.35] Abinash Bhattacharya: “…When Lord Curzon (q.v.) decided to carry out the partition of Bengal (first announced in 1903, carried out in October 1905), Aurobindo-babu wrote: “A golden opportunity has come. Lay special stress on the Anti-Partition movement. Many workers will come from this movement.” He sent us a little pamphlet he had written entitled No Compromise. No press would print it. With no other course open, we bought types, sticks, lead, case, etc., & got the matter composed at our house by a young Marathi man named Kulkarni [cf. P.B. Kulkarni in# “Life [or The Life] of Sri Aurobindo” by A.B. Purani]. Needless to say this Kulkarni used to stay with us. One night we got a press to print about a thousand copies of the pamphlet. It was distributed among all the newspaper editors & among the respectable educated classes. Barin & I took a copy to the venerable Surendranath Banerjee. At first he asked us to leave the pamphlet & go, but as we stood there obstinately, he took it up to glance at it – & could not put it down. He read the entire thing with great concentration, utterly stunned. He asked who the author was. No Indian, why, not even a Bengali, could write such English, & present the facts so cogently – such was his opinion. When he was told that Aurobindo Ghose was the author, he said: “Yes, he is the only person who could write in this way.” No copy of this pamphlet escaped the swoop of British CID which destroyed everyone it laid its hands on.” [“Sri Aurobindo”, Mother India$, July 2012, pp.528-39]