Presidency College : the inevitable official name of what was opened at Calcutta in 1817, by Rammohan Roy & David Hare under the name Hindu College.
... original performance. It was in the year 1905. The Swadeshi movement was in full tide, flooding the land with its enthusiasm, particularly the student community. But how about the Calcutta Presidency College? That was an institution meant for the "good" boys and for the sons of the rich, that is, for those who, in the parlance of the time, "had a stake in the country," those who, in other words,... name in later years, and perhaps also Bhupati Mohan Sen, who subsequently came to be known as Principal B. M. Sen.¹ Sitapati ¹ I cannot now exactly recall if Bhupati Mohan had been at the Presidency College right from the First Year class, or whether he joined the Third Year from the Scottish Churches College, known at the time as the General Assembly's Institution. Page 331 ... is the matter? What happened?" "Russell has been thrashed with shoes!" "Who thrashed him? Who?" The Principal came – it was Dr. P. K. Roy, the first Bengali to have become Principal of the Presidency College, though in a temporary capacity. We all got into our classes. Re entered our class first as it was nearest to the scene of the incident. Russell was with him, his face red with shame and indignation ...
... English in the Presidency College, Calcutta, he earned a well-deserved reputation. His lectures on poetry used to be a treat. It is said that he created a poetical atmosphere, and that students from other colleges would some times steal into his class to breathe in that rarefied atmosphere of poetic enjoyment. One would often see him going up and down the stairs of the Presidency College, hat in hand... the Maharaja of Coochbehar. He sent some money to Manmohan, and the latter also returned. Manmohan was at first appointed Professor of English at the Dacca College, and subsequently at the Presidency College of Calcutta, which was, at that time, the best college under the greatest University in India. A few words about the brothers and sister of Sri Aurobindo will not be out of place here. ... patterns of romance and beauty, and fill the classroom with the vibrations of a naturally vocal sensibility. Nevinson writes of him in his New Spirit in India: "I found him there (in the Presidency College) teaching the grammar and occasional beauties of Tennyson's 'Princess' with extreme distaste for that sugary stuff." Some of his poems have been incorporated in a few anthologies of English ...
... original performance. It was in the year 1905. The Swadeshi movement was in full tide, flooding the land with its enthusiasm, particularly the student community. But how about the Calcutta Presidency College? That was an institution meant for the "good" boys and for the sons of the rich, that is, for those who, in the parlance of the time, "had a stake in the country," those who, in other words... at the Ramakrishna Mission. These more or less made up the list of the "good" boys. Among the "bad" ones was Indranath 1 I cannot now exactly recall if Bhupati Mohan had been at the Presidency College right from the First Year class, or whether he joined the Third Year 'from the Scottish Churches College, known at the time as the General Assembly's Institution. Page 1 Nandi... is the matter? What happened?" "Russell has been thrashed with shoe!" "Who thrashed him? Who?" The Principal came—it was Dr. P. K. Roy, the first Bengali to have become Principal of the Presidency College, though in a temporary capacity. We all got into our classes. He entered our class first as it was nearest to the scene of the incident. Russell was with him, his face red with shame and i ...
... 24, 25 & 26). 122. tippanr. a comment or an explanation. 123. - Rishabhchand (3.12.1900 - 25.4.1970) was born in West Bengal and had a brilliant academic carrer in Berhampur and at Presidency College, Calcutta. He turned to the non- cooperation movement and then founded the renowned Indian Silk House in Calcutta in 1926. He came in contact with Sri Aurobindo and settled in the Ashram in... 129. See Sri Aurobindo's letter dated 5 October 1935, p.322. 130. The double brackets are Sri Aurobindo's. 131. Professor Mahendra Nath Sarkar was an eminent teacher of philosophy at Presidency college, Calcutta and author of many valuable books on Indian philosophy and spirituality. An ardent admirer of Sri Aurobindo, he visited and stayed in the Ashram for some time. 132. Tresor: name ...
... Bengal. There were protests everywhere. The cries of Vande Mataram , Vande Mataram reverberated in the land and in the skies of Bengal. Nolini-da was then a second-year student of the Presidency College. Listen to Nolini-da recount it: Loud protests had arisen on account of the Bengal Partition and there was going to be observed a Day of Fasting or Rakhi-day or something like that. In what... said not a word. My action must have appeared as rather unconventional, perhaps even incorrect to many, but I felt at the same time there were quite a few who gave me an admiring look. The Presidency College was then an institution for the children of the rich. The winds of swadeshi had not touched many here. Nolini-da, along with a few, was one among those who had been touched. The matri-mantra ...
... poems and several well-regarded essays in various newspapers and periodicals. What is more, he owned and edited a newspaper himself. The only known portrait of this man hangs in the library of Presidency College. There is also a hall named after him, with his bust gracing the entrance. It is ironic that the very college that expelled him now vaunts its association with him. In sonnets such as "To India ...
... demise of his father Dwijendralal Roy, owing to apoplexy. 1913 Passed matriculation examination with scholarship, scoring high marks in Sanskrit and mathematics. Joined Presidency College and took up science. Met Subhash Chandra Bose; a lasting and intimate friendship developed. 1918 Passed BSc with first class Honours in mathematics. 1919 ...
... Almost about the same period, I had thought of another childish plan, again in connection with the making of a bomb: the thing had so much got into my head. I was a student of the Calcutta Presidency College where the great Jagadish Chandra was professor at the time. Here was the idea and it was approved by my leaders – could I not join his laboratory, as some kind of an assistant? Then one could ...
... Almost about the same period, I had thought of another childish plan, again in connection with the making of a bomb: the thing had so got into my head. I was a student of the Calcutta Presidency College where the great Jaga-dish Chandra was professor at the time. Here was the idea and it was approved by my leaders—could I not join his laboratory, as some kind of an assistant? Then one could ...
... Carthage. His elder brothers too arrived, though later; Benoy Bhushan was to serve under the Page 45 Maharaja of Cooch-Behar, and Manomohan was to become Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. The prodigal boys returned home at long last, Sri Aurobindo first, the others later; they were now stalwart young men, well-set apparently in life — but Dr. Krishnadhan's strong ...
... Eldest Benoybhusan and second Monmohan had education in England along with Sri Aurobindo. Benoybhusan twas in Cooch- bihar State Service and Monmohan, Professor of English, Presidency College, Calcutta. Monmohan was a poet. While in England his poetry received appreciation from a number of English critics including Edmund Gosse. Next to Monmohan was Sri Aurobindo followed by their ...
... eldest son of Puranchand (1882—1967), an eminent scholar and writer mainly on Jain religion and philosophy in Bengali. After a brilliant academic career in Krishnanath College, Berhampur, and Presidency College, Calcutta, Rishabhchand plunged into the non-cooperation movement. Time was ripe for shaping a greater destiny for him by the Force. He was sent for a change to a hill station where in the solitude ...
... compounds and college corridors - Bande Mataram was at once the salvo of defiance of authority and a dedication to the service of the Mother. Earlier, in 1905, a young student of the Presidency College, Ullaskar Datta, "had thrashed with his shoe the professor of philosophy, an Englishman, for making some disparaging remarks about the Bengalis. The thrashing had been followed by cries ...
... leader. The older he grew the more pronounced became this trait. From school to college —from the Metropolitan Institute Page 556 Swami Vivekananda to the Presidency College —the student community could not do without him. Games? He was one of the best players, if not the best. Scuffles? Who could put more force in his punches? School debates? Who could defeat the ...
... uncommon habit with brilliant young men in all countries and it saves them from the sterilizing effects of over instruction; but it hardly strikes one as a safe policy for slower minds. At the Presidency College, his next seat of instruction, he shaped his versatile intellect to the study of law. He had then some project of qualifying as a High Court Pleader, but at the Page 92 right moment ...
... Ayurvedic doctor, at one time in charge of the Ashram Dispensary. Rishabhchand (3.12.1900-25.4.1970) was born in West Bengal and had a brilliant academic career in Berhampur and at Presidency College, Calcutta. He then turned to the non-co- operation movement and founded the renowned Indian SilkHouse in Calcutta in 1926. He came in contact with Sri Aurobindo and settled in Pondicherry in ...
... Mongolia as a Lama, from there he sailed for India, and landed at Pondicherry in December 1925. He never left. Pavitrada's assistant Mrityunjay Mukherjee was a graduate of Calcutta's well-known Presidency College. A good looking and intelligent young man, with a very fine handwriting, but of a querulous nature. Only a saint like Pavitrada could get along with him. After Abhay's arrival in 1940 and ...
... impressions, and I shall quote from these, but occasionally in his talks with us also Sri Aurobindo spoke of his teaching days. His brother Manmohan had likewise become a Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. His teaching too was greatly admired but there was a difference between them. Sri Aurobindo told us: 'Manmohan was very painstaking.... I saw that his books used to be inter-leaved ...
... this was not true. At the age of eight, he entered the Metropolitan Institution of Pandit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and in January 1880, at the age of seventeen, he entered calcutta's Presidency College. His college days were marked by intellectual fervour Page 289 and spiritual upheaval. He was a voracious reader, and studied history, mathematics, logic, psychology, and philosophy ...
... blurt out. "I am going to leave home in order to do patriotic work." At last, I managed to put it like this, for we had a deep respect for our father: "I shall not be studying any more at the Presidency College; I shall join the National College." To join the National College had become a craze at the time, and I thought that to put it that way would be to give the least offence. I Page 328 ...
... Life-Sketch of Nolini Kanta Gupta Nolini Kanta Gupta was born on January 13, 1889, in Faridpur, East Bengal (now Bangladesh). Raised in Rangpur, he went for higher studies to Presidency College, Kolkata. When the province of Bengal was partitioned in 1906, Nolini became increasingly involved in the movement to free India from British rule. In his fourth year of college, he joined the ...
... which he joined at the age of eight; his answer papers were published in some of the leading newspapers. He was a favourite student of David Hare. In 1840 he joined the Hindu College (now the Presidency College) on a sholarship. The Hindu College was the first English College that had the support of both the Hindu community and the British rulers. "My first marriage took place when I was seventeen ...
... district, often by night, in an ox-cart, the then usual mode of transport, in which he would lie jolted and fearful of tigers. Finally, in October 1902 Mano was appointed Professor of English at the Presidency College, Calcutta. "He was very painstaking," recalled Sri Aurobindo. "Most of the professors don't work so hard. I saw his books interleaved and marked and full of notes." At the College Manmohan carved ...
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