Pal, Bepin Chandra : (1858-1932) born in Sylhet, now in Bangladesh, began his career as a journalist. Perhaps, his excellent command over English & his impressive knowledge of English polity & the state of affairs under Brit rule, led to his becoming a founding member of the INC (Bombay, December 1885) & one of its dynamic speakers. E.g., interpreting Pherozshah Mehta’s decision to keep the proletariat out of the INC, he declared: “India could not reasonably expect to build up a real modern democracy by enlisting the masses to the service of the Congress before they were sufficiently advanced in social ideas & had been properly educated. The continuance of Brit authority was necessary for building up a real freedom movement” & establish a Govt. “which would be a Govt. of the people, by the people & for the people.” He took a leading part in organising the movement against the partition of Bengal that erupted in 1905. When Pal started the English daily Bande Mataram on 6 August 1906, with barely Rs. 500, donated by Haridas Hāldār, in his pocket, he invited Sri Aurobindo to be his Joint Editor. But an English daily paper whatever the mesmerising appeal of its name, could hardly be run on the outlay of Rs. 500. So when Pal went on a tour of the eastern Districts of Bengal to spread the message of nationalism, Sri Aurobindo was in charge of the paper, & he took the opportunity to call a private meeting of the young nationalists to chalk out their future programme. He told them what was needed was an all-India nationalist party organised & capture the Congress organisation. The one all-India leader with the requisite intellectual & moral eminence & record of national service & sacrifice was Tilak, & hence the nationalists of Bengal should join hands with those of Maharashtra, the Punjab & elsewhere, & follow Tilak’s leadership. Secondly, to give the national party a mouthpiece on a nation-wide basis, the party should adopt the Bande Mataram paper & give it adequate financial & other support. In the meantime, Subodh & Nirod Mullick offered to keep the paper going, & Bepin Pal, enjoying as he did the support of C.R. Das & others, remained editor; but differences unfortunately developed between him & two of the editorial assistants, Shyamsundar Chakravarti & Hemendra Prasad Ghose. This ended in Pal’s separation from the journal towards the end of 1906. Sri Aurobindo would not have consented to this but the separation was effected behind Sri Aurobindo’s back when he was convalescing. …. Although Sri Aurobindo wrote most of the leading articles & made other contributions as well, his name did not figure as Editor except once…. His editorial assistants, Shyamsundar, Hemendra Prasad & Bejoy Chatterjee, were also brilliant writers who could on occasion successfully imitate their chief. By the end of September, Sri Aurobindo & his three colleagues, B.C. Pal himself being away most of the time, had given the Bande Mataram its distinguishing stamp as the supreme hot-gospeller in the cause of national independence & regeneration. ― Pal had also joined Sri Aurobindo in putting up Tilak & Lajpat Rai as leaders of their New Party which became an all-India Nationalist Party aiming to achieve Swaraj for India through boycott of everything foreign & developing Swadeshi in all spheres of national life. In fact, soon Lal-Bal-Pal became the acknowledged leaders of the Nationalist Party. After the 1906 Calcutta Congress, Tilak spent three months speaking & organizing in Bengal & the United Provinces. Pal also spoke in U.P. & afterwards went on a pioneering tour of the Andhra country in the politically ‘backward’ Madras Presidency. It was partly as a result of Bepin Pal’s sensational tour of Madras in 1907 that, like Bengal, Maharashtra & the Punjab, the southern Province too witnessed Nationalist & revolutionary activity on a truly portentous scale. In his article on “The Tuticorin Victory’, Sri Aurobindo paid a well-merited tribute to V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, Subramania Siva & Padmanābha Iyengar. ― On 8 June 1907 the Bande Mataram was warned that if it did not toe the Govt. line police action will ensue. On 30 July, its office was searched & on 16 August a warrant for Sri Aurobindo’s arrest was issued. But the police found no evidence of his being the editor. So Bepin Pal, being the founder of the paper was put on the witness box to prove Sri Aurobindo was indeed the editor. But Pal, who had long since severed his connection with the paper, refused to name him &, on September 11th, he was sentenced to six months’ simple imprisonment in Buxar Jail in Bihar. It was “the maximum penalty permitted by the law for the crime of possessing a conscience” commented the Bande Mataram of 12 September, for obeying not the Govt.’s dictate but “the imperative command of his conscience” which he held to be a “more sacred & binding law than the Penal Code”. When Pal was released, the Bande Mataram declared “We welcome back today not Bepin Chandra Pal, but the speaker of a God-given message; not the man but the voice of the Gospel of Nationalism.” In a subsequent article, Sri Aurobindo described Pal as “the standard-bearer of the cause of Nationalism, the great voice of its heart, the beacon-light of its enthusiasm”. [In 1908-09] Pal & Lajpat Rai took up residence respectively in England & America. When Pal returned, Motilal Nehru made him editor of his The Independent (q.v.). “But late in life,” concludes Prof S. Bhattacharya’s brief 17-line secularised note on Pal, “he lost some of his old fire, did not agree with Gandhi on the issues of non-violent non-co-operation & the Khilafat movement & retired from active political life.” [Based K.R.S. Iyengar’s Sri Aurobindo – a Legend & a History, 2006; Purani’s Life of Sri Aurobindo; P. Heehs’ Brief bio…, & Lives…]
... the divine Light to the benighted world. He was, however, great as a political leader and commanded the respect of the whole nation by his sincerity and self-sacrifice. Bepin Chandra Pal Bepin Chandra Pal was a versatile scholar, an eloquent speaker, a deep and subtle thinker68, and a consummate theoretician and propagandist. But as an organiser and leader of a national movement, which went ...
... obscurantism, 147 occultism, 200 or the box, see under Hinduisrn over population, 63-64 see also birth control P paganism , 129 Pakis tan, 15(fn), 22 4, 22 7, 24 1, 245(fn), 253 Pal , Bepin Chandra , 17 Pales tine, 137 Panchayat (system), 178, 221 Pariah, 29, 20 8 parliamentary democracy, see under democracy Pars is,63 partition, see under Bengal, India, Pakistan passive resistance ...
... 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 Pal, Bepin Chandra, 201, 217, 218, 219, 221, 223, 235, 237, 244, 245-46, 299, 301, 302, 334, 399 Pandit, M.P, 579, 690, 747 Panikkar, K. M., 722 Parabrahman, 158 Paradise Lost ...
... Government at Bepin Pal's triumphant oratory. "I do not think we should allow Bepin Chandra Pal to stump the country preaching sedition as he has been doing," wrote Minto, the Governor-General of India, to Morley, the Secretary of Page 306 State for India, on 2 April 1907. Within three months of this, Minto went further and proposed the deportation of Pal on the ground that "Pal's behaviour... perhaps the best and most original political thinker in the country, an excellent writer and a magnificent orator. Said Sri Aurobindo, "Pal was a great orator and at that time his speeches were highly inspired, a sort of descent from above." Up to 1901 Bepin Chandra Pal was an avowed Moderate who believed in the 'Divine Providence' that had brought the British to India "to help it in working out its... Conference Sri Aurobindo accompanied Bepin Pal in a tour of East Bengal "where enormous meetings were held —in one district in spite of the prohibition of the District Magistrate." "When after the Barisal Conference, we brought in the peasants into the Movement, forty or fifty thousands of them used to gather to hear Pal," recalled Sri Aurobindo. B.C. Pal, Page 304 though lacking ...
... and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C. R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Chose and Shyam Sundar joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. " The editorial staff comprised Bepin C. Pal , Sri Aurobindo, Shyam Sundar Chakrabarty! and Bejoy Chandra Chatterji , both of them 'masters... 'masters of the English language,' and Hemendra Prasad Chose. The dissension between Bepin Pal and others arose because of differences of political views "especially with regard to the secret revolutionary action with which others sympathised but to which Bepin Pal was opposed," clarified Sri Aurobindo. "Finally, Bepin Pal had to retire, I don't remember whether in November or December [1906], probably... Banerji. And you will wonder, Bepin Pal wrote to me that I was unnecessarily creating trouble by writing them. Of course, I went on writing my articles without listening to what he said. I saw how little practical insight he had got in politics. At the 1906 Congress [at Calcutta] Tilak had to do the whole fighting alone against Pherozeshah and the rest and Bepin Pal could be of no help to him! I was ...
... to prove that Sri Aurobindo was the editor a summons was served on Bepin Chandra Pal to give evidence as a witness. The Prosecution had thought that since Bepin Pal had severed connections with the Bande Mataram he would be willing to appear and testify that Sri Aurobindo was the editor. But their calculations went wrong. Bepin Pal declined to obey the. summons and appear as a witness. For this breach... movement was born. Like a tidal wave it gained ground in Bengal and soon it spread outside the province. Bepin Chandra Pal was at the forefront of the movement in Bengal and Balgangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai gave the lead to it in Maharashtra and the Punjab, forming the well-known trinity Lal-Bal-Pal. Indeed a country-wide campaign was launched with the result that the demand for British goods fell... But the need for an all-India organ was keenly felt. Bepin Chandra, with great courage but hardly any financial support, decided to launch the paper. The first issue of this new journal, Bande Mataram, was to be brought out on August 7, 1906, the first anniversary of the boycott of British goods as a protest against the Partition. However, Bepin Pal had to leave Calcutta urgently and the first issue ...
... Interest Letters of Historical Interest Letters on Personal, Practical and Political Matters (1890-1926) Autobiographical Notes To Bipin Chandra Pal Wednesday. Dear Bepin Babu, Please let us know by bearer when and where we can meet yourself, Rajat and Kumar Babu today. Subodh Babu is going away today, and there are certain conditions attached ...
... sworn or affirmed in that case." Through his refusal, Bepin Chandra Pal became the first exponent of Passive Resistance. 1. When, tired, the flogger stopped after fourteen lashes, the bleeding Sushil piped up reminding him, 'One more.' Page 361 Judge Kingsford sentenced him to six months' imprisonment. Pal was sent to Buxar jail. It was on 23 September that the... not a civilized Englishman? And, Bepin Pal was subpoenaed by the government as one of its witnesses. What a dilemma! If he refuses, he will be charged with contempt of court; if he says the truth he will implicate his young friend, harm the paper, and hurt the new Nationalist Party. People were in a dither to hear this witness. "I honestly believe," said Pal refusing to testify, "that prosecutions... against the accused, the Magistrate was a Civilian Magistrate whose leanings have never been concealed, the same Page 362 who gave two years to the Yugantar Printer, who sent Bepin Pal before a subservient Bengali Magistrate with a plain hint to give him a heavy punishment, who sentenced Sushil Kumar to fifteen stripes, who brushed aside the evidence of barristers in favour of Police ...
... projected and formed, but the paper was financed and kept up meanwhile by Subodh. Bepin Pal who was strongly supported by C.R. Das and others remained as editor. Hemendra Prasad Ghose and Shyam Sunder joined the editorial staff but they could not get on with Bepin Babu and were supported by the Mullicks. Finally, Bepin Pal had to retire, I don't remember whether in November or December, probably the latter... conjectures about how the Bande Mataram was started, what Sri Aurobindo's connection with it was and how it ended. We give here Sri Aurobindo's own explanation, so as to set all doubts to rest. "Bepin Pal started the Bande Mataram with Rs.500 in his pocket donated by Haridas Halder. He called in my help as assistant editor and I gave it. I called a private meeting of the young Nationalist leaders... name as editor on the paper without my consent, but I spoke to the secretary pretty harshly and had the insertion discontinued. I also wrote a strong letter on the subject to Subodh. From that time Bepin Pal had no connection with the Bande Mataram . Somebody said that he resumed his editorship after I was arrested in the Alipore Case. I never heard of that. I was told by Bejoy Chatterjee after I came ...
... a whole nation,' as B.C. Pal said. "We of the generation that grew up under his piercing eyes, caught fire from his flaming words.... He showed us the way out of bewilderment; we learnt to understand what Indian Nationalism stood for and the ideal of the 'Karma-Yogin.'" That was from Suresh Chandra Deb, who was one of the volunteers accompanying Bepin Pal, Subodh Mullick and Sri Aurobindo... s.... His only care is for his country —the Mother, as he always calls her.... By the general verdict of his countrymen Aravinda stands today among these favoured sons of God...." Thus wrote Bepin Chandra Pal, in his Character Sketches. "Aravinda's contribution to Indian politics is beyond measure," wrote R. C. Majumdar in the History of Freedom Movement. "Above all, the Extremist Party had... boyhood days. "... The brilliant champion of Indian nationalism ... he shone like a brilliant meteor and created a powerful impression on the youth of India." Nehru's political rival Subhash Chandra Bose said much the same thing with more fervour. 1 "In my undergraduate days Arabindo Ghosh was easily the most popular leader in Bengal, despite his voluntary exile and absence from 1909. His was ...
... principle it debars itself from taking all but Swadeshi advertisements. Fudge, Sir Harvey! The Nationalists are not shopkeepers trading in the misery of the millions; they are men like Upadhyay and Bepin Chandra Pal and numbers more who have put from them all the ordinary chances of life to devote themselves to a cause, and in the few instances in which a Nationalist journal has been run at a profit, the... young man who was not so well known publicly outside Bengal, became an all-India household name overnight. So far people had been wont to think that the pithy and pungent articles flowed out of Bepin Pal's pen, but now everybody knew that those were from the pen of Arabindo Babu, 'the power behind the paper.' The Bande Mataram continued to reprint extracts in some of its numbers. We give here ...
... acquaintances. Maharaja Suryakanta 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... in which eminent speakers like B.C. Pal suggested the inauguration of an independent system of National education. Incidentally, another meeting was held at College Square on the same day, 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 ...
... conscience" which he held to be a "more sacred and binding law than the Penal Code". But Pal and the country alike only stood to gain from his conviction: The country will not suffer by the incarceration of this great orator and writer this spokesman and prophet of nationalism, nor will Bepin Chandra himself suffer by it. He has arisen ten times as high as he was before in the estimation... The Madras Standard wrote as follows: Perhaps, few outside Bengal have heard of Mr. Aurobindo Ghose, so much so that even the London Times has persisted in saying that none but Mr. Bepin Chandra Pal could be the author of the able articles appearing in the Bande Mataram. ... In the history of press prosecutions in this country, we have not come across a man who has been more conspicuous... the outlay of Rs.. 500, with which Bepin Pal had launched it in a moment of enthusiasm. The fact that Sri Aurobindo had joined forces was no doubt a great accession of intellectual and spiritual strength, but even he - with his eye for practical realities - saw the need to put the paper on a sound financial footing and give it a strong party base. When Pal went on a tour of the eastern Districts ...
... articles in the early numbers of this revolutionary journal and always exercises general control over it. April 14 At the Barisal Conference. Afterwards makes a political tour of East Bengal with Bepin Chandra Pal. June Returns to Baroda. June 19 Takes one year's leave without pay from Baroda College. Returns to Bengal. August 6 Declaration of the Bande Mataram. Sri Aurobindo joins the... Speech at Dhulia. January 28, 29 Speeches at Amravati. January 30, 31 Speeches at Nagpur. February 1 Speech at Nagpur. March 10 In Howrah at a public reception of Bepin Chandra Pal upon his release from jail. April 8 Speaks at a meeting at Chetala. April 10 "United Congress" Speech at Panti's ; Math, Calcutta. ... Bombay. August 7 - March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps for Old, to the Induprakash. 1894 July 16 - August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji to the Induprakash. 1895 Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of poems. 1896 Probable year of publication of Urvasie, a narrative poem. ...
... new molasses, his face ever clear and bright, yet an obstinate and powerful man. His renown as a doctor was plenty; people would come to beg for their lives as though begging a divinity." Bepin Chandra Pal, one of the pioneers of India's freedom struggle, writing on Sri Aurobindo and his background, waxed eloquent when he dwelt on Sri Aurobindo's Page 100 father. 1 "SREEJUT ARAVINDA... its day. On 20 September 1884 Ramakrishna Paramahansa went there to see a play on Sri Chaitanya, and blessed the actress who played the leading role. He also blessed the author-cum-director, Girish Chandra Ghose (1844-1912), who then became his disciple. Every year a fair was held at Khulna. Once a week there would be a magic lantern show, and the doctor himself would speak on the subject ... in... exclaimed the good doctor, and from then on he always spoke in Bengali. A cultured man, Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose was profoundly interested in Bengali literature. Bankim's youngest brother, Purna Chandra Chatterjee, gives a personal account of Dr. Ghose. "Every evening," he wrote in Narayan, a Bengali magazine edited by C. R. Das, "we would meet at Dr. Krishna Dhan's house. I was a deputy magistrate ...
... early numbers of this revolutionary journal and always exercises general control over it. April 14 At the Barisal Conference. Afterwards, makes a political tour of East Bengal with Bepin Chandra Pal. June Returns to Baroda. Page 813 June 19 Takes one year's leave without pay from Baroda College, returns to Bengal. August 6 Declaration of the Bande Mataram... at Dhulia. January 28 , 29 Speeches at Amravati. January 30,31 Speeches at Nagpur. February 1 Speech at Nagpur. March 10 In Howrah at a public reception of Bepin Chandra Pal upon his release from jail. April 8 Speaks at a meeting at Chetla. April 10 "United Congress" speech at Panthi's Math, Calcutta. April 12 Speech at Baruipur. ... Bombay. August 7 — March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps/or Old, to the Indu Prakash. 1894 — July 16-August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji Page 812 to the Indu Prakash. 1895 — Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a collection of Poems. 1896 — Probable year of publication of Urvasie ...
... National Council of Education in Calcutta. March 12 - Declaration of the Yugantar (Bengali weekly). April 14 -Sri Aurobindo attends the Barisal Conference, then tours East Bengal with Bepin Chandra Pal. June 19 - Sri Aurobindo leaves Baroda for good. July 12 -In France, Dreyfus is cleared from all guilt twelve years after being convicted of treason, and reinstated to the Army. ... entitled 'New Lamps for Old' in which he criticizes the leaders of the Indian National Con- gress and their 'mendicant' policy. November 16 -Annie Besant comes to India. 1894, April 8 — Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July- August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Induprakash. 1897 - Sri Aurobindo begins to teach at the Baroda College, as a lecturer in French; ...
... pamphlet. - Partition of Bengal, beginning of the Swadeshi movement. 1906, June - Sri Aurobindo leaves Baroda for good. Page 256 1906, August Bepin Chandra Pal launches the Bande Mataram (English daily); Sri Aurobindo joins it and soon becomes its editor. On August 15, the Bengal National College opens with Sri Aurobindo as its principal... to March 1894, contributes a series of articles, "New Lamps for Old," to the Indu Prakash. 1893,May 31 - Swami Vivekananda sails for America. 1894,April 8 -Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; ...
... demi-god and such popularity was not always to the liking of his British masters. So there were clashes at times and despite his admiration for the British the relationship was not always happy. Bepin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo's contemporary and colleague in the political field, has paid a remarkable tribute to Dr. K.D. Ghose in his book, Indian Nationalism: Its Principles and Personalities. He writes:... the daughter of Rajnarayan Bose, in accordance with Brahma Samaj rites. Rajnarayan himself was an outstanding product of the new India that was then rising. A contemporary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and a close friend of the poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Rajnarayan represented in himself the composite culture of his time — Vedantic, Islamic and European. He was also ...
... preaching of Nationalism is the whole object of the bureaucracy. The Times saw this when it singled out the writings of Bande Mataram and Yugantar, the speeches Page 351 of Bepin Chandra Pal and his like and above all, the Boycott as the root of all evil. Behind all technicalities this is the true and only issue in these sedition cases." The Bande Mataram, from its very inception ...
... parts —she wrote stories and dramas. Rajnarain Bose himself was a prolific writer; his themes were of course of a serious nature. He was equally well versed in Bengali, English and Persian. Bepin Chandra Pal, describing the life and thought of Rajnarain, wrote, "He represented the high-water mark of the composite culture of his country — Vedantic, Islamic and European. . . . He also seems to have... thus: "... I see this rejuvenated nation again illumining the world by her knowledge, spirituality and culture, and the glory of the Hindu nation again spreading over the whole world." Bankim Chandra, greatly appreciative, wrote: "Let there be a shower of flowers and sandal on the pen of Rajnarain Babu." Dayananda Saraswati (1824-83), the founder of the Arya Samaj, was a great reformer in ...
... Moderates. There was, for instance, the happy occasion of the release of Bepin Chandra Pal after six months in prison. "We welcome back today not Bepin Chandra Pal," wrote Sri Aurobindo, "but the speaker of a God-given message; not the man but the voice of the Gospel of Nationalism." 23 In a subsequent article, he described Pal as "the standard-bearer of the cause [of Nationalism], the great voice... voice of its heart, the beacon-light of its enthusiasm". 24 It was partly as a result of Bepin Pal's sensational tour of Madras in 1907 that, like Bengal, Maharashtra and the Punjab, the southern Province too witnessed Nationalist and revolutionary activity on a truly portentous scale. In his article on "The Tuticorin Victory', Sri Aurobindo paid a well-merited tribute to V.O. Chidambaram Pillai... population of Tinnevelly district; let every man follow the noble example of Chidambaram Pillai and, for the rest, let God decide." On 7 April, Sri Aurobindo had occasion to comment again on Bepin Pal and on "The New Ideal" placed by him before the nation in a series of speeches. The nation was weak and enslaved, the nation must become strong and free: but how? The clue to the secret lay within ...
... 1895, Died: 31.1.1969) IN A VILLAGE about 15 km north-west of Pondicherry, a boy called Aravamudachari heard the name Aurobindo along with other great names like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bepin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpatrai. It was the time when Independence, Foreign Rule, Slavery were the cries that filled the skies and those names reached the ears of the village-boy too, being continually talked ...
... of NL K. Gandhi. Another political leader who did not believe in that movement was Bepin Chandra Pal. Sri Aurobindo's 'Na-masi' Lilabati (1864-1924) was Swarnalata's younger sister. Given the social atmosphere of the times, she showed a lot of courage by getting many widows —who were sent to her by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar — to marry again. Many distressed women found a refuge in her. It never ...
... from comparative obscurity to national eminence. He was now recognised as one of the four outstanding leaders of the "extremist" or Nationalist party, the other three being Tilak, Lajpat Rai and Bepin Chandra Pal. The split at the Surat Congress (December 1907) was followed by Sri Aurobindo's first Yogic realisation at Baroda, and his "Midlothian" campaign from Bombay to Calcutta. His articles in the ... secret revolutionary activity. An English counterpart for the Yugantar was soon felt to be a necessity, and this was provided when Bepin Pal started the daily Bande Mataram on 6 August 1906, with barely Rs. 500, donated by Haridas Haldar, in his pocket. Pal wanted Sri Aurobindo to be Joint Editor of the Bande Mataram, and this was to give him another line of action - for the word was power... which was specially scheduled to discuss the situation in Bengal created by the partition. Although Government promptly banned it, the organisers decided to defy the ban: the procession led by B.C. Pal, Sri Aurobindo and B.C. Chatterji in the first was sought to be stopped, and on the processionists refusing to disperse, they were lathi-charged by the police and many were injured in consequence. Thus ...
... orthodoxy and general degradation which were so prevalent in the Indian society at the time.’ 2 ‘I have rarely met with one so highly educated, so spirited and with such a strong personality.’ (Bepin Chandra Pal) The doctor was also ‘a tremendous atheist,’ according to Sri Aurobindo, and he wanted his sons to be ‘beacons to the world.’ His wife Swarnalata was ‘stunningly beautiful,’ some say, so much... Aurobindo; he accepted straightaway and became the Principal of the College on 15 August 1906, his thirty-fourth birthday. Not more than a couple of weeks before he took up the principalship, Bepin Chandra Pal and a few nationalist companions had started a new English daily, Bande Mataram. In this case language was no obstacle for Aurobindo, there was only a problem of the available time. But und... requested me to write something less violent. I then began to write about the philosophy of politics, leaving aside the practical side of politics. But I soon got disgusted with it and when I heard that Bepin Pal had started a paper, the Bande Mataram, I thought of the chance to work through it.’ 24 Aurobindo withdrew into the routine of his assignments in Baroda, and into an inner world. He read ...
... and religious and social reformer of Bengal, was then passing his old age in the peaceful retreat of Deoghar. Sri Aurobindo must have felt a great affinity with him. "Rajnarayan Bose", as Bepin Chandra Pal says, - and no views carry more weight than this political stalwart's who worked shoulder to shoulder with Sri Aurobindo for the country's freedom - "was one of the makers of modern Bengal... prove, more than anything else, that his politics was no rash adventure or a desperate gamble of a thoughtless moment. It was a spontaneous response of Bengal to the challenge of the hour. Bepin Chandra Pal, than whom there was no more eloquent preacher and exponent of Indian Nationalism in those days, and who worked with Sri Aurobindo on the editorial board of the Bande Mataram, writes from... and destruction under the pressure of a gross and greedy industrialism." 148 " ...Aravinda was the leading spirit, the central figure, in 147. 148. Character Sketches by Bepin Chandra Pal. Page 118 the new journal (the Bande Mataram). The opportunities that were denied him in the National College he found in the Pages of the Bande Mataram, and from a tutor ...
... contact with the movement through Motilal Roy of Chandernagore. To Bipin Chandra Pal. 1906 . Bipin (also spelled "Bepin") Chandra Pal (1858 - 1932) was a nationalist speaker and writer. Sri Aurobindo apparently wrote this note to him in September or October 1906. At Page 574 this time, Pal was editor-in-chief of the nationalist newspaper Bande Mataram and Sri Aurobindo... September 1907 Bipin Chandra Pal was sentenced to six months imprisonment for refusing to testify in the Bande Mataram Sedition Case. He was released in March 1908. On 6 March Sri Aurobindo and some of his colleagues sent telegrams to fifteen nationalist leaders in different parts of the country asking them to organise celebrations and make donations to a purse that would be offered to Pal. Sri Aurobindo... Life and Times , Book One (Bombay: Shree Laxmi Narayan Press, 1950), p. 305. To the Editor of the Independent . August 1920 . This obituary article was written at the request of Bipin Chandra Pal, editor of the Independent , after the death of Bal Gangadhar Tilak on 1 August 1920. The piece was published in the Independent on 5 August 1920. The Page 583 present ...
... to disperse. Krishna Kumar Mitra, Sri Aurobindo's uncle, refused to leave the pandal. There was a procession to protest against the government's action. In the first row were Sri Aurobindo, Bepin Chandra Pal, B.C. Chatterji. Behind them were delegates to the conference in rows of four. The procession was charged by the police. They allowed the leaders to pass and stopped the delegates from proceeding... verandahs of the houses and shouted "Vande Mataram" from there – the verandah is not the road! After the conference Sri Aurobindo went round the districts of East Bengal in company with Bepin Chandra Pal and a young man named Sarat. This was done for observation and study of these parts and also to bring political awakening by personal contact. About this period Sri Aurobindo later said:... Subha's office. In April 1901 Sri Aurobindo was married to Mrinalini Bose, daughter of Bhupal Chandra Bose. Her age was fourteen years (birthday 6 March 1888). Sri Aurobindo had had many prospective offers from which he selected Mrinalini. Principal Girish Chandra Bose, a friend of Bhupal Chandra Bose, arranged the match. The marriage took place at Baithakkhana Road, Calcutta, in one of the houses ...
... could begin to dream of freedom or even of becoming a nation. In the view of the Moderate Party, the philosophy of Indian nationalism as advocated by nationalist leaders like Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bepin Chandra Pal, Lala Lajpat Rai, Sri Aurobindo and others was untenable and was even an avoidable menace. There was a view among journalists such as that of Mr. N.N. Ghose of the Indian Nation that because ...
... 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 In 1902, Sister... 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 ...
... matter of shame and sorrow for India. But by keeping to the path of rectitude the situation can yet be saved." The Maulvi was fully convinced that distinguished persons, men of high character, like Bepin Pal and Aurobindo Ghose, whatever they might have done, they would openly confess their deeds.... I was charmed and delighted with his knowledge, intelligence and religious fervour. It would have been... which might have been hanging or transportation for life, some of these accused persons without as much as glancing at what was happening around them, were absorbed in reading the novels of Bankim Chandra, Vivekananda's Raja Yoga, or the Gita, the Puranas, or European Philosophy.' At last the trial drew to a close. Had it not been for Sri Aurobindo, the case would have been over long ago, for he ...
... bureaucracy in India - had had their way, and the lights had gone out, and a pall and a silence had descended on the people. When Sri Aurobindo had last come to Uttarpara - that was over a year ago - Bepin Pal had made a memorable speech. He had then come out of the Buxar jail, and he had given the word that had come to him in jail from God. Sri Aurobindo too had been initiated in jail, and he would... not an avatar like Rama, and Gokhale and his friends erred by imagining themselves in the righteous role of Vibhishana and the other allies of Rama, and erred even more by taking the Tilaks, Bepin Pals and Aurobindos to be of the tribe of Ravana". 16 Like his countrymen, Sri Aurobindo too did not fail to recognise the finer elements in Gokhale's mind and character; he actually described... Sri Aurobindo's English translations of the Isha, Kena and Katha Upanishads. The paper also published his renderings from Kalidasa's Ritusamhara and the first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra's Anandamath, besides several of Sri Aurobindo's poems. Who, Baji Prabhou, Epiphany, The Birth of Sin and An Image. Among the constructive prose contributions were several series of essays ...
... determined this time to bring Sri Aurobindo back into the political arena. On August 1, 1920, Lokmanya Tilak died. In response to a request from Bepin Chandra Pal, Sri Aurobindo wrote a magnificent tribute to the departed leader. It was published in Pal's paper, the Independent, and commenced with the memorable words: 'A great mind, a great will, a great and pre-eminent leader of men has passed away ...
... 4. In the last issue of the Udbodhan, recently printed, Girija has committed a great error when he states that the series of articles on passive resistance in the Bande Mataram were written by Bepin Pal! We know on unimpeachable authority that it was written entirely by Sri Aurobindo. Detailed examination of Udbodhan: 1. In the issue of Vaishakh 1347, Girija says that Sri Aurobindo... enlightened nations seems to put what Girija might call blind faith. And Girija cannot say that this blind faith of the modern does not lead to power. 42. Repression would crush the nation, thought Bepin Pal Ram Mohan also thought the same way. Sri Aurobindo thought differently. He thought that repression would awaken the nation. This is a matter of opinion. Page 363 APPENDIX... XII Biography of Sri Aurobindo by Jyotish Chandra Ghosh Jotish Chandra Ghosh, Life-Work of Sri Aurobindo (Calcutta: Atma-Shakti Library, 1929), 186 pages. In refreshing contrast to the biographers that have not been able to grasp the significance of Sri Aurobindo's spiritual endeavour, Sj. Jotish Chandra Ghosh shows a remarkable understanding even in the year ...
... Calcutta. These two firms were handling the publication of Sri Aurobindo's books. 22 April. Suggestions about sadhana. Talk on the Prabartak Samgha and Motilal Roy. 26 April. A letter from Bepin Chandra Pal to Sri Aurobindo about poetry. 27 April. Remarks on a letter of Lele to Natwarlal Bharatia. 28 April. Talk about the Ramakrishna Mission in America and about spirituality and the external... Lilavati (Purani's wife), (12) Punamchand, (13) Champa Ben (Punamchand's wife), (14) Rajani Kanta Palit, (15) Dr. Upendra Nath Banerjee, (16) Champaklal, (17) Kanailal Gangulee, (18) Khitish Chandra Dutt, (19) V. Chandra Sekharam, (20) Pujalal, (21) Purushottam Patel, (22) Rati Palit, (23) Rambhai Patel, (24) Nani Bala. ¹ Cf. Sri Aurobindo, On Himself , p. 136. Page 217 ... and a Madrasi address). All others should come by the old address, – you may be sure, I think, no letter will be actually intercepted, on this side. By the way, please let us know whether Mr. Banomali Pal received a letter by French post from Achari Page 150 enclosing another to Parthasarathi. I have not written all this time because I was not allowed to put pen to paper for ...
... their thoughts inevitably turned to Sri Aurobindo. On being asked to give his reactions to the tragic demise of the Lokamanya, Sri Aurobindo said in the course of his tribute that was published in Bepin Pal's paper, the Independent: A great mind, a great will, a great pre-eminent leader of men has passed away.... He was one who built much rapidly out of little beginnings, a creator of great... steadfast and tender-hearted of his disciples. And now, early in 1924, an unusual visitor to Pondicherry: Dilip Kumar Roy, son of Dwijendralal Roy the Bengali dramatist. A contemporary of Subhas Chandra Bose in college, like him Dilip too thought of Sri Aurobindo as a legendary figure almost, of whom people talked in whispers of rapturous excitement and enthusiasm. With his rich academic and cultural... and after the severance of connection in 1922, the Sangha developed in its own way, with no doubt some residual Aurobindonian inspiration still, but mainly deriving its impulse from Motilal, Arun Chandra Dutt and others. The whole episode convinced Sri Aurobindo that it was no use "rushing into work" except with tempered and tested instruments and on a sure basis of integral knowledge. 36 ...
... such as Rabindranath Tagore, Surendranath Banerji, Bepin Chandra Pal, Ashwini Kumar Dutt The ideal of Swadeshi, which called for the boycott of British goods, spread widely. In March, 1906, Barin Ghose with a few others started the fiery Bengali weekly, the Yugantar, to which Sri Aurobindo contributed several articles. In August, B. C. Pal launched the famous English daily, the Bande Mataram;... and with new features. They are periods when the wisdom of the wise is confounded and the prudence of the prudent turned into a laughing-stock____ * * * The supreme service of Bankim [Chandra Chatterji] to his nation was that he gave us the vision of our Mother It is not till the Motherland reveals herself to the eye of the mind as something more than a stretch of earth or a mass of individuals ...
... my time and attention while the revolutionary work was passed on to Barin and some other leaders. My first contribution to the political change was to write articles in the Bande Mataram paper. Bepin Pal, who had just founded the journal, was very happy that I accepted his request to collaborate. In the meantime, the government accused the paper Yugantar of publishing seditious articles, but it... and go to Bengal. There, my time would be mostly Page 123 spent in revolutionary activities. During one such stay, I attended the Barisal meeting after which I toured East Bengal with Bepin Pal. I had my own reasons for wanting to draw closer to the Liberals in the Congress Party. In those days, the Congress Party was very large. Many well-known Indians were its leaders, but most of them... Swadeshi thought, and to use this vast and complex organisation as the means to bring about political revolution among the masses. "I have already spoken to you about the paper Bande Mataram which Bepin Pal had started with very little money. He asked me to collaborate with him and I agreed immediately. This was the opportunity I had been looking for, as it could be the means to spread the ideas of ...
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