Norton : Pattabhi Sitāramayyā: Mr Eardley Norton…was the son of John Bruce Norton who was a well-known public man in South India & whose portrait is hung in the Pachaiyappa’s Hall, Madras. The younger Norton spent the best part of his life in India & laboured like his father for India’s uplift. In 1894 [at the 10th INC Session at Madras, under Mr A. Webb], he moved the Resolution on the abolition of the India Council & formulated the conundrum: “If the Secretary of State is to be controlled by the Council, then abolish the Secretary of State. If the Council is to be controlled by the Secretary of State, then abolish the Council…. The dual existence is useless, dangerous, expensive & obstructive.” And on the subject of Lord Ripon’s repealing of Lord Lytton’s Vernacular Press Act of 1878, he quoted a statement of the P.M. Gladstone, the great friend of India, “Suddenly in the dark, in the privacy of the Council Chamber, I believe in answer to a telegram, without the knowledge of Parliament, without the knowledge of the country, a law was passed totally extinguishing the freedom of the Native Press. I think a law such as that is a disgrace to the British Empire. [History of INC (1885-1935), 1935, pp.80-81] Buckland: Norton, John Bruce (1815-1883) son of Sir John David Bruce, Puisne Judge of the Madras Supreme Court: educated at Harrow & Merton College, Oxford: called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn 1841: Sheriff of Madras 1843-5: Govt. pleader: Advocate-General 1863-71: Member of Legislative Council, Madras: Fellow & Lecturer of Madras University: an ardent advocate & supporter of native interests & education: Patron of Pachaiyappa’s school at Madras: appointed first lecturer on Law to Indian students at the Temple, London, July 1873. M.V. Ramana Rao: The speech of Mr Eardley Norton, at Madras in 1887 (at 3rd session of INC) under subtitle Tenor of Discussions was remarkable. A British barrister practicing at Madras, Mr N was a staunch friend of India. His espousal of the Indian view-point was galling to his fellow countrymen & they described him as a ‘veiled seditionist’. Mr N said: “If it be sedition, gentlemen, to rebel against all wrong; if it be sedition to insist that the people should have a fair share in the administration of their own country & affairs; if it be sedition to resist tyranny, to raise my voice against oppression, to mutiny against injustice, to insist on a hearing before sentence, to uphold the liberties of the individuals, to vindicate our common right to gradual but ever advancing reform – if this be sedition I am glad to be call a seditionist & doubly glad, aye, trebly glad when I look around me today, to know & feel I am ranked as one among such a magnificent array of seditionists.” It was a remarkable exhibition of courage & honesty & love of democratic principles…. At the 5th Congress (Bombay, 1889) presided over by Sir William Wedderburn, Mr N., the intrepid fighter, moving a resolution, said, “The existing councils were shams & that half of them should be elected. If the element of election to half the seats was conceded, we shall have the right to criticize the budget, we shall have the glorious privilege of interpellation, a right which if properly applied will lead to the enormous benefit both of the rulers & ruled. [A Short History of the I.N.C., S. Chand & Co., 1959] Suresh Balakrishnan …at the Bombay Congress of 1889 he introduced the Madras scheme for the reform of the Indian Legislative Councils, which metamorphosed into the Indian Councils Act, 1892. The Madras scheme was prepared under his leadership, & this was one of his deeds as a Congressman which is hardly mentioned in hitherto published books on the history of the INC or the Indian national struggle.... At the next Congress at Madras in 1894, he held the audience spellbound with a stirring speech demanding the abolition of the Indian Council. …. In 1906, he wound up his Madras practice & residence & moved to Calcutta…. He had always wanted to practise in Calcutta where he felt the Bar was stronger than Madras & he preferred to compete with equal or better talent. Calcutta witnessed his appearance in many sensational cases, including the historic trial against revolutionaries known as the Alipore Bomb Case (1908-09), in which he led the prosecution. …. Having worked for nearly fifty years at the Indian Bar, he retired in early 1920s. His last professional engagement was in 1923 for Nabha in the Nabha-Patiala dispute in the Punjab. He then spent a couple of years in Kodaikanal…left India for good in May 1926…spent the last five years of his life peacefully in Kent & breathed his last on July 13, 1931. [“Eardley Norton, Congressman”, Madras Musing, August 16-31, 2018, p.6] P. Heehs: Mr Norton was engaged by the Bengal Government as the counsel for prosecution in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908-09) in all the three courts – the Magistrate’s, the Sessions Judge’s, & the High Court. The Bengal government instructed the inspector general of police to follow every clue that connected Aurobindo with the conspiracy & to make ‘every effort to procure a conviction in court.’ The govt. hired [him], the leading barrister of Madras, to head the prosecution. It was rumoured that his pay was the staggering sum of 1,000 rupees a day. Several members of the Calcutta detective police were assigned full time to the case, sifting through the piles of evidence to piece together an account of the events leading up to the Muzaffarpur murders. Norton was to do the rest. Aurobindo took scant interest in the proceedings of the hearing. He…looked on with amusement as Norton wove the evidence into a grand historical drama. [Later, commenting on it, Sri Aurobindo wrote]: Just as Holinshed, Hall & Plutarch gathered the materials for Shakespeare’s historical plays, so the police had collected the material for this drama of a case. Mr N was its Shakespeare. I noticed one difference between Shakespeare & Norton, however. Shakespeare occasionally would leave out some part of the material that had been collected; but Mr N never left out one jot of what he received By adding plentiful amounts of suggestion, inference & hypothesis from his own imagination, he managed to create such a wonderful plot that Shakespeare & Defoe & the other great poets & novelists would have acknowledged defeat at the hands of this great master. [Lives of Aurobindo, 2008]
... inhabitants of that kingdom. "The star performer of the show was the government counsel, Mr. Norton. Not only the star performer, but he was also its composer, stage manager and prompter - a versatile genius like him must be rare in the world. Mr. Norton hailed from Madras... I cannot say whether Mr. Norton had been the Page 282 lion of the Madras Corporation, but certainly he was the... loser. Mr. Norton was trying heart and soul to prevent such a loss to the government.... "Just as Holinshed and Plutarch had collected the material for Shakespeare's historical plays, in the same manner the police had collected the material for this drama of a case. And Mr. Norton happened to be the Shakespeare of this play. I, however, noticed a difference between Shakespeare and Mr. Norton: Shakespeare... charmed by Mr. Norton's learning and rhetoric, he had been completely under his spell. He would follow, ever so humbly, the road pointed out by the counsel Norton. Agreeing with his views, he laughed when Norton laughed, grew angry as Norton would be angry. Looking at this Page 285 daft, childlike conduct one sometimes felt tenderly and paternally towards him. Birley was exceedingly ...
... of his Poem. Norton "would grow red with fury and, roaring like a lion, he would strike terror in the heart of the witness and cower him down". He lost his temper equally whenever the defence counsel, Bhuban Chatterji, raised objections or points of order. As for the Magistrate, Mr. Birley, he was content to follow Norton's lead: "he laughed when Norton laughed, grew angry as Norton would be angry"... a British Court of Justice, but in a world of fiction or fantasy. Of the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Norton, Sri Aurobindo has left a vivid sketch, which almost skins alive that once roaring hero of a hundred judicial theatres: The star performer of the show as the government counsel, Mr. Norton. Not only the star performer, but he was also its composer, stage manager and prompter... he certainly... and the loud-mouthed bullies - Norton was the foremost in the third category. No use criticising him, for that was, after all, his svabhāva! And his svadharma was to earn his daily fee of one thousand rupees by trying to win the case for the Government by hook or by crook. And what an adroit creative genius he was, almost a sort of Shakespeare: And Mr. Norton happened to be the Shakespeare ...
... Criminal Investigation Department, Bengal. The Alipore Bomb Trial was the first State Trial of any Magnitude in India A few Reports of Evidence and Cross Examination of Witnesses : Mr. Norton then dealt with the case of Sudhir Kumar Sarkar. Counsel placed the documentary evidence against Sudhir before their Lordships. These documents consisted of a number of letters written to Sudhir... living with the conspirators. Counsel referred to another letter writen by Sudhir and found at his father’s house at Khulna in which Sudhir said that he had taken a vow to serve his motherland. Mr. Norton then referred to several letters written by Sudhir but none of which were proved by Sudhir’s brother. “Exhibit 394 is a letter of 6th December from Aurobindo explaining why he was not able to send... n with the offence of waging war against the King. That occurrence was in April 1907. As regards this part of the case Counsel preferred to wait before making his submission until he had heard Mr. Norton as to how the latter proposed to establish a connection between Indra Nath being bound down to keep the peace in April 1907 and the offence of waging war against the King. Answers from Prison ...
... Fingers of yew be curled Down on us? After the kingfisher's wing Has answered light to light, and is silent, the light is still At the still point of the turning world.² ¹ "Burnt Norton" ² Ibid. Page 142 Eliot's is a very Christian soul, but we must remember at the same time that he is nothing if not modern. And this modernism gives all the warp and woof woven upon... decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.¹ He aims at the neutral point between the positive and the ¹ "Burnt Norton" Page 144 negative poles, which is neither, yet holding the two together – at the crossing of Yes and No, the known and the unknown, the local and the eternal. That is what he means when... along the artery The circulation of the lymph Are figured in the drift of stars Ascend to summer in the tree We move above the moving tree ¹ "The Dry Salvages" ²"Burnt Norton" ³ "Little Gidding" Page 146 In light upon the figured leaf And hear upon the sodden floor Below, the boarhound and the boar Pursue their pattern as before But reconciled ...
... cage' — at the Sessions Court, and police with fixed bayonets stood on guard throughout the room. "I had," said Norton, "a five-chambered loaded revolver lying on my brief throughout the trial." The Sessions Court trial began on 20 October 1908. After the preliminaries were over, Norton opened the case for the Crown, and took six days doing it. Then he called evidence. On 4 March 1909 the Crown... examined the accused to explain the evidence against them. Almost all the accused merely stated that the lawyers on their behalf had their full instructions to argue and explain the evidence. After this Norton began his argument which he finished on the 20 th March. The various defence counsels and pleaders then addressed the Court. Chittaranjan Das was among them. He took eight days of counter-arguments... more than any other the prosecution are anxious to have convicted and but for his presence in the dock there is no doubt that the case would have finished long ago." Much to the chagrin of Prosecutor Norton, and the British Indian Government, Judge Beachcroft proceeded to acquit Sri Aurobindo. Here is an extract from the report of a dashed F. C. Dally, Deputy Inspector General, Special Branch, to ...
... hilt the utter hollowness of the evidence so laboriously piled and craftily cooked up by the Prosecution. The fiery shafts of Mr. Norton were shattered by his incisive logic, and the imposing array of the prosecution arguments relentlessly torn to shreds. Norton had at last met more than a match in C.R. Das. In the beginning of the case, Sri Aurobindo gave certain 161... Alipore Bomb trial. We quote from an authentic book. The Alipore Bomb Trial, by Bejoy Krishna Bose, who was one of the pleaders for the accused, and also from the Foreword to this book by Eardley Norton, one of the counsels for the Crown. "All the accused were produced before the Commissioner of Police and on the next day Mr. L. Birley, the District Magistrate of Alipore (24 Parganas District)... vivid account of the jail life of the accused in his Bengali book, S m ṛtir Pātā. Page 294 We give below short extracts from the Foreword to the above book by Mr. Eardley Norton Bar-at-Law, who was the principal Counsel for the Crown and whose forensic skill and sharp, perplexing cross-examination were a veritable terror to the witnesses. This Foreword was written long ...
... higher, at 26,800 feet, was carried up by the three Sherpas, Lhakpa Chedi, Norbu Yishay, and Semchunbi. From here, before Mallory and Irvine were lost, Colonel E.F. Norton and Dr. T.H. Somervell made a fine attempt, in which Norton reached more than 28,000 feet. This remained the world altitude record until Raymond Lambert and I went a little higher on the other side of the mountain during the... except that no lives were lost, and two teams of climbers — Wyn Harris and L.R. Wager together, and Frank Smythe, with Eric Shipton stopping a little below him — went to about the same place that Norton had reached. Again the highest tent, Camp Six, was set up by Sherpas, and this time the top men were Angtharkay, Pasang, Rinzing, Ollo, Dawa, Tshering, and Kipa. "Tigers," the English men called ...
... court of justice we were inside a stage in some world of fiction.... The star performer of the show was the government counsel, Mr. Norton. Not only the star performer, but he was also its composer, stage manager and prompter.... It gave me great happiness that Mr. Norton had chosen me as the protagonist of this play.... Of the national movement I was the alpha and omega, its creator and Saviour, engaged... administrators were governing thirty crores of Indians could not but rouse a deep devotion towards the majesty of the English masters and their methods of administration. " The ubiquitous Eardley Norton led the Crown in the Page 453 trial in all three Courts —the Magistrate's, the Session Judge's and the High Court. Describing the drama being played out in the Alipore Magistrate's... of me for the nonce, he would surely have earned his mukti then and there and both the period of our detention and the government's expenses would have been curtailed." The government was paying Norton at the rate of Rs. 1000 a day. The entire trial lasted one full year. The fact of the matter was that Norton's sentiment was fully shared by the Administration. The Bureaucracy was dead certain ...
... the big couloir. I see all that with the feeling of no longer belonging to the world below. When I notice it is 3 o'clock in the afternoon, it sinks in: I am still about 200 metres to the east of the Norton couloir. When I then peer at the altimeter it shows 8,220 metres. I am disappointed. It's more than that surely! It's not only that I would be delighted to have got as far as 8,400 metres, but that... rammed-in ice axe and put my head on this cushion. I can still survey the steep rise above me, orientate myself, weigh up difficulties. Fortunately an uninterrupted snow gully runs up the Norton Couloir. So long as I can see and plod I am confident. Once, before I reach the bottom of the broad trough, I look out for a longer rest possibility. The tent, a yellow speck, appears as through ...
... confused that he finally shouted, "That was the man over there, I have seen him." This settled the point. The entire court-room rang with laughter. Norton was flabbergasted, for he had been conducting the case for the prosecution. He was known as "Madras Norton": he had earned quite a name as a formidable, almost ferocious barrister at the High Court in Madras. Through this fiasco the path to my release ...
... 308,317; before chief Presidency Magistrate, 310; at Alipur Jail, 310ff, 317; "master mind" behind extremism, 311; Alipur "Yogashram", 312; Sarojini's appeal for defence fund, 312, 324; on Eardley Norton, 313ff; on Alipur Jail, 315ff; on God's manifestation in prison, 316; experience of Vasudeva, 319ff, 322-3, 362, 371, 387, 389; on the fellow-accused, 321; changes in physical appearance... 655, 657, 693-94, 707, 743, 744 Nishikanto, 758, 730 Nivedita, Sister, 63, 221, 235, 266, 282, 287, 338-39, 346, 348, 359, 367, 368, 391 No Compromise, 190, 208 Norton, Eardley, 312, 313ff, 324, 326, 327, 343 Odyssey, 71 Okakura, Baron, 62 Olsson, Eva, 445 O'Malley, L.S.S.,11 Omar Khayyam, 415 O'Neill, Eugene, 640 ...
... against the persons on their trial, but from beginning to end it is an arraignment of the Arya Samaj as a body whose whole object, semi-open rather than secret, is the subversion of British rule. Mr. Norton, taking advantage of the presence of Sj. Aurobindo Ghose in the dock, attempted to build up in the Alipur case an elaborate indictment of the whole national movement as a gigantic conspiracy, but he... reformer's polemics against other religions, the orthodox Hindu included, are pressed into the service of this unique argument. And all this is used to prejudice men under trial on a serious charge. Mr. Norton trifled with the traditions of the British bar by his pressing of trivial and doubtful evidence against the accused in the Alipur case, but it seems to us that Mr. Grey has departed still farther from ...
... after careful consideration, decided not to appeal against it. Had there been a less impartial judge, the outcome could have been very different. To fight their case, the Government engaged Eardley Norton, an eminent barrister from Madras, who was known as a formidable criminal lawyer with the reputation of a bully who could browbeat witnesses into submission and win his cases. In the early stages of... prisoners were brought daily to the courtroom from the jail to be present during the trial. They were placed behind a wire-network and policemen with fixed bayonets stood on guard throughout the room. Norton has stated that he used to keep a loaded revolver lying on his brief, as a precautionary measure. But in this tense atmosphere and whilst the courtroom drama was being enacted, the demeanour of the ...
... strokes. The climax of the drama was the year-long detention of Sri Aurobindo as under-trial prisoner in Alipore Page 78 Jail and the subsequent court-scenes with Eardley Norton the most brilliant criminal lawyer in India as Crown Prosecutor, Chittaranjan Das shielding Sri Aurobindo by a case for defence worked out through feverish months at the cost of his own health and ...
... Convention, is now unmasked and publicly ratified. The most odious part of the Poona speech is that in which Mr. Gokhale justifies Government repression and attempts to establish by argument what Mr. Norton failed to establish by evidence, the theory that Nationalism and Terrorism are essentially one and under the cloak of passive resistance, Nationalism is a conspiracy to wage war against the King. This ...
... loaded with profound mystico-philosophical ideas, will easily fail to appeal to the inmost sense of aesthetic perception if the leaving breath of the spirit is absent in them, as in Eliot's Burnt Norton : Time present and time past Are both perhaps are present in time future, And time future contained in time past. In contrast to this, we have even in a simple verse of Vyasa the sure touch ...
... boxing in 1971 when he suffers his first defeat as a professional at the hand of Joe Frazier. In 1973, in another attempt at world championship, he will lose for the second time in his life to Ken Norton. In 1974, despite gloomy predictions, he will try again to capture the world title by challenging the then champion George Foreman. He tells us here of his training in view of this fight ...
... p. 344 65. Ibid., p. 351 66. Ibid., pp. 360-61 67. Ibid., p. 352 68. Ibid., p. 370 69. Ibid., p. 371 70. T. S. Eliot, Burnt Norton, pp. 170-74 71. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 16, p. 371 72. Quoted in D. K. Roy's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me (Jaico edn.), p. 107 73. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 18, p. 110 ...
... ies! Barin once took a bomb to him and he was full of enthusiasm. He even had a letter from Suren Banerji, when he was arrested at Manik Tola. But in the court they hushed up the matter as soon as Norton pronounced S. N. Banerji. The constitution of Aundh was brought in by a disciple. Disciple : Aundh State has given a very fine constitution to the people. It has conferred wide powers on ...
... each an understanding peculiarly their own. The road up and down is one and the same. These two aphorisms, by a curious coincidence, serve also as epigraphs to T.S. Eliot's Burnt Norton, published twenty years later. Like Sri Aurobindo and Eliot, Heraclitus too had wrestled with seeming opposites only to forge a firm reconciliation at last. Commenting on the first of the above, Sri ...
... Deputy Superintendent of Police, Shamsul Alam, in the precincts of the High Court, in daylight, under the eyes of many and in a crowded building. Shamsul Alam had been the right-hand man of Eardley Norton in the Alipore Bomb case. "As for the crime itself," wrote the Karmayogin of 29 January, "it is one of the boldest of the many acts of violence for which the Terrorists have been responsible.... ...
... return it to the Dead Letter Office. Sj. Aurobindo preferred to consign it to the waste paper basket as a more fitting repository. We cannot imagine any earthly use in these clumsy devices. Even Mr. Norton would find it difficult to make anything of a forgery, however exact, more hopelessly suspicious even than the "sweets" letter. Page 418 ...
... Human , Phoenix, 1995 Guittès, Emmy: Le passage de la matière à la vie , La Baconnière, 1966 Guttman, Barton S.: Evolution , Oneworld Publications, 2007 Harris, Sam: The End of Faith , W.W. Norton & Company, 2004 Hellman, Hal: Great Feuds in Science , John Wiley & Sons, 1998 Hitchens, Christopher: God is not Great , Twelve, 2007 Hitching, Francis: The Neck of the Giraffe , Pan Books ...
... the house-search-ings, the legal attacks and counter-attacks, the sensational climax in the year-long detention as under-trial prisoner in Alipore Jail and the subsequent court-scenes with Eardley Norton the most brilliant criminal lawyer in India as Crown Prosecutor, Chitt-aranjan Das shielding Sri Aurobindo by a case for defence worked out through feverish months at the cost of his own health and ...
... ____________________________ Essay based on extracts from H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks, Penguin Books, London, and from Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way, Norton and Company, New York Baron Pierre de Coubertin The Olympic flame, Seoul, 1988 Page 299 ...
... private he would go as far as revolution. He wanted a provincial board of control of revolution. Barin once took a bomb to him. The name of Surendranath Banerji was found in the bomb case. But as soon as Norton pronounced the name there was a "Hush, hush" and he shut up. Barin was preparing bombs at my place at Baroda, but I didn't know it. He got the formula from N. Dutt who was a very good chemist. He ...
... (Marie Curie's Autobiographical Notes are included at the end of Pierre Curie.) —Curie, Marie. CEuvres de Marie Sklodowska-Curie. ac. Pol. Sci. Varsovie: 1954. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. —Curie, Pierre. CEuvres de Pierre Curie. Gauthier Villars, 1908 —Giroud, Frangoise. Marie Curie: A Life. Translated by Lydia Davis. New York: Holmes & Meier, 1986 ...
... itself the stronger. For many centuries this was the chief problem of the history of civilisation. (...) Taken from: Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken Translated by G.C. Richards W.W: Norton and Company Page 67 ...
... the Great American Historical Review, 1957, pp. 326-44 Tarn, Sir William, and Griffith, G. T. — Hellenistic Civilization Arnold.3rded.l952 WilckenUlrich —Alexander the Great, WW Norton and Company A few dates 356 B.C. — Birth of Alexander 336 B.C. — Alexander (aged 20) becomes king of Macedon following the assassination of his father Philip 334 B.C. — Alexander ...
... Egypt under the Ptolemies, Asia under the Seleucids, and Macedonia under the Antigonids... Taken from: Alexander the Great by Ulrich Wilcken Translated by G.C. Richards WW Norton and Company Page 70 ...
... Monnet", in: Jacques Van Helmont and Francois Fontaine, Jean Monnet, op. cit., pp. 136-37. 13. Quoted by Francois Duchene in Jean Monnet, The first Statesman of Interdependence (New York: W. W. Norton &. Company, 1994), pp. 96-97. 14. The General Henri Giraud fought in Morocco during World War I. In 1940 at the beginning of World War II, he was made a prisoner. He escaped in 1942 and reached Algeria ...
... 170 Durga,180 ECKHART, 131 Edgar, 171-3 Egypt, 298 Einstein, 300 Eiseley, Loren, 295n - The Immense Journey, 295n Eliot, T. S., 88, 140-4, 147-8, 196, 205 -"Burnt Norton", 142n., 144n., 146-7n -"East Coker", 14On., 145n -"Little Gidding", 141n., 145-6n -."The Dry Salvages", 145-6n., 148n -"The Hollow Men", 140, 149n -The Waste Land ...
... Alighieri. The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, translated by Henry Francis Cary (Oxford University Press, London, 1923). The Divine Comedy, translated by Charles Eliot Norton (Great Books of the Western World, William Benton, Chicago, 1952). Das, Abinas Chandra. Rig-Vedic India, Vol. I (The University of Calcutta, 1921). Deshmukh, P.S. The Origin and ...
... 168. Humanity and Deity, p. 464. 169. Williams, The Figure of Beatrice, p. 195. 170. Existentialism, Ti. by E.M. Cocks,pp. 49-50. 171. T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton. 172. Savitri, p. 835 . 173. See A Heifer of the Dawn, pp. 19-21. 174. P. Lai, Introduction to Modern Indo-Anglian Poetry, pp. ii-iii. 175. Quoted in ...
... for learning the Bengali language; sometimes there would be a mock court in which Ullaskar would be the judge and Sri Aurobindo himself would become the Public Prosecutor imitating the arguments of Norton. He would expound on subjects like the philosophy of British law and justice, the morality and immorality of Anarchism, Imperialism, revolution, the morality of political dacoity, bombing, killings ...
... would still go on, for God was the real leader, and He was irresistible. Had not Sri Aurobindo seen through the jail and the jail-keeper, the judge and the assessors, the confronting lawyers Mr. Norton and Chittaranjan, the witnesses and the visitors, and seen behind them all but one visage, one form, one manifestation? Temporary set-backs should not frighten the true sadhaka in the Temple ...
... may note here with amusement that as the students repeated this action everywhere, a jittery Government watched with nervousness. During the Alipore trial the next year the Prosecution Counsel, Y. Norton stated that "Aurobindo was treated with the reverence of a king wherever he had gone. As a matter of fact he was regarded as the leader not merely of Bengal but of the whole country." From the ...
... would go up to revolution. He wanted a Provincial Board of Control of Revolution. Barin once took a bomb to him. The name of Surendranath Banerji was found in the [Alipore] Bomb Case. But as soon as Norton pronounced the name there was a 'Hush, hush' and he shut up." With his customary modesty —notwithstanding his disclaimer —Sri Aurobindo did not breathe a word about his own part in the drama that ...
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