Ranade, Mahadev Govind : (1842-1901), son of an officer of the Princely State of Kolhapur & a distinguished graduate of Elphinstone College, Bombay M.A., LLB: joined Govt. Education Dept.1866: Acting Prof. of English at Elphinstone College 1868-71: appointed Subordinate Judge of Poona 1871: in a speech delivered in 1874, dilated on the idea of responsible Govt. & suggested that the British Parliament should accept 18 Indian representatives to start with: Judge of Supreme Court Poona 1884: member Indian Finance Commission 1886: several times Member Legislative Council, Bombay: Judge of High Court Bombay 1893 up to his death. A Brahmo of the Prārthanā Samāj: in the forefront of many public movements in the Bombay Presidency. He was among those, who, having benefitted by the education introduced & systematised by Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1856) as Governor of Bombay Presidency (1819-27), became so impressed by the overall efficiency & superiority of the new rulers that the advent of British rule appeared to them to be a blessing in disguise, a Divine Dispensation. Contact with Britain enabled India to keep abreast of the modern world, & when in the next few centuries she would have outlived her mediaeval mode of life & thought, the British tradition of democracy & compromise would provide a peaceful parting of ways. This explains why Ranade forced the editor of Indu Prakāsh to stop publishing Sri Aurobindo’s “New Lamps for Old” series & advised him to take up jail reform. [Buckland; Karandikar; & other sources.]
... and we would not be what we are without them. But of no precise form can we say that this was what the man meant, still less that this form was the very body of that spirit. The example of Mahadev Govind Ranade presents itself to my mind as the very type of this peculiar action so necessary to a period of large and complex formation. If a foreigner were to ask us what this Mahratta economist, reformer... great figures of present-day Indian life who received the breath of his spirit. And in the end we should have to reply by a counter question, "What would Maharashtra of today have been without Mahadev Govind Ranade and what would India of today be without Maharashtra?" But even with those who were less amorphous and diffusive in their pressure on men and things, even with workers of a more distinct energy ...
... earlier after returning home from England, I had written some bitterly critical articles in the *Indu * Prakash. Realising that these articles were influencing the mind of the young, the late Mahadev Govind Ranade had told me, when I met him, that I should give up writing these articles and take up some other Congress work. He wanted me to take up the work of prison reform. I was astonished and unhappy... 1885 was an expression of this new political awareness. But the political awakening, when it came, was slow and uncertain in its beginnings. The first generation of Congress leaders, among them M.G. Ranade, Surendranath Banerjee, Pherozeshah Mehta, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, were sincere patriots but they were men of prudence and moderation, who sought to cooperate with the British, not to confront them... Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash. There I strongly criticised the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so fiery that M.G. Ranade, the great Maratha leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious writings to appear in his columns; otherwise he might be arrested and imprisoned. Deshpande approached me with ...
... and Mahadev Govind Ranade warned the proprietor of the Indu Prakash that, should the series continue in the same strain, he would be prosecuted for sedition. As requested by the proprietor, the original plan was abandoned, but at K.G. Deshpande's instance the series was continued on a much more subdued key, the articles appeared at long intervals, ,and then ceased altogether. As Ranade was... case of India. And the reasons are not far too seek. The Indian countryside had all along remained inveterately Indian; and men like Ramalinga Swami, Dayanand Saraswati, Sri Ramakrishna, Mahadev Govind Ranade and others were able, in varying degrees, to stem the tide of denationalisation and assert the claims of the Indian genius to live its own life and win its own spiritual laurels even in our ...
... speech delivered in 1896, Mahadev Govind Ranade mentioned habitual sincerity of purpose, sustained earnestness of action, originality, imagination, personal magnetism and genius for leadership as the qualities that mark "greatness" in men, and ended by saluting Rammohan Roy as a man who thus fully qualified for greatness. A Rishi, a Mahapurusha, Rammohan was — and Ranade himself has been called a... blindly accepted. In the creative work of Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath, in the tremendous visions of Vivekananda, in the spectacular ministry of Dayanand Saraswati, in the seasoned evangelism of Ranade and Telang, the 'new' forged syntheses with the yet living, the perennially enduring past of India. Brahmo Samaj (with its later variations), Arya Samaj, Prarthana Samaj, Ramakrishna Mission, T... Srinivasa Sastri. What an inspiring calendar of modern Rishis: Rammohan, Keshab Chunder Sen, Debendranath Tagore, Vidyasagar, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, Narayana Guru, Dayanand, Bankim Chandra, Ranade, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Subramania Bharati, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo: these are among the more well-known names of the last one hundred and fifty years, ...
... they will find in those articles matter that will set them thinking and steel their patriotic souls." ¹ The publication of the first two articles created a furor in political circles and Mahadev Govind Ranade, the famous Maratha leader, who was connected with the paper, sent a warning to the editor that he might be prosecuted for sedition. Deshpande was in a fix. He requested Sri Aurobindo to tone... With love, Your affectionate brother, Auro P. S. If you want to understand the new orthography of my name, ask uncle. ¹ Sometime in 1894 Sri Aurobindo met M .G. Ranade at Bombay for half an hour. It was Ranade who, having read Sri Aurobindo's Induprakash series, had sent a warning to the editor. He was anxious to meet the intelligent and promising young man! At last when an interview... 1903, when the Maharaja took him as secretary on the Kashmir tour; but as the experience was not pleasant, it was not repeated. The following extract from Sayaji Rao Gaekwar Yancha Sahavasat by Govind Sakharam Sardesai (the famous Marathi historian) referring to Sri Aurobindo, affords contemporary evidence about his Baroda state service and life: "Sri Aurobindo and myself were together with Sayaji ...
... editor of the English section of the journal, whom he had known at Cambridge. "The first two articles", Sri Aurobindo later noted, made a sensation and frightened [Mahadev Govind] Ranade and other Congress leaders. Ranade warned the proprietor of the paper that, if this went on, he would surely be prosecuted for sedition. Accordingly the original plan of the series had to be dropped at the ...
... 104 Regarding his interview with Mahadeo Govind Ranade, Sri Aurobindo says in his Bengali book, Kara Kahini, (The Story of my prison life): "I remember when, back home from England, fifteen years ago, I started writing in the Induprakash of Bombay, strongly protesting against the Congress policy of prayer and petition, the late Sri Mahadev 103. The first stanza of Dwijendralal Roy's... Roy's Bengali song, translated by Sri Aurobindo. 104. Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother, page 27. Page 89 Govind Ranade, seeing how these articles were acting on the minds of the youth, exhorted me, from the moment I met him, for two quarters of an hour, to leave off such writing and take up some Congress work. He wished to entrust me with the work of jail reform. I was... those of Eng- land, and the Congress freely recognises that whatever advances we seek must be within the Empire itself...." — Gokhale. "I am an inveterate. I am a robust optimist like Mahadeo Govind Ranade. I believe in divine guidance through human agency.... My steadfast loyalty (to the Crown) is founded upon the rock of hope and patience.... I accept British rule... as a dispensation so wonderful ...
... facts and circumventing obstacles, shrewd yet aggressive diplomats, born politicians, born fighters." -Mahadev Govind Ranade (1852-1904) was an economist, a reformer and an erudite scholar. He gave a new orientation to the country's reform movement. His wife, Ramabai Ranade (1862-1924) was a pioneer in promoting female education and social service by women. - Bal Gangadhar Tilak ... Alexandria, and the figures of the Upanishads and the sayings of the Buddhists were re-echoed on the lips of Christ. Pataliputra has played an important role in the history of ancient India. And Guru Govind Singh, the tenth guru of the Sikhs, was born there in 1669. Fittingly enough then, - Dr Rajendra Prasad (1884-1963), the first President of independent India, hailed from there. He was an... gave the mantra which became the national anthem of united India. "In a sudden moment of awakening from long delusions the people of Bengal 1. Sri Aurobindo's comments on Dayananda, Tilak, Ranade and Bankim are from his Bankim-Tilak-Dayananda. Page 43 looked round for the truth and in a fated moment somebody sang Bande Mataram. The mantra had been given and in a single ...
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