Shanti-Sechan : ceremonial crowning of Surendranath Banerji: “a floral chaplet was placed on his head while Brahmins blew conches & recited Vedic mantras” [his paper, Bengalee of 2 Sept. 1906]. And on 11th, the Hindoo Patriot described it as a “miserable crowning farce” & advised the “new king” to retire.
... help thinking that it is indecently prolonged. Rest, rest, perturbed spirit, rest! The Englishman makes, after his fashion, a curious use of the severe criticism on Babu Surendranath's Shanti-Sechan which have appeared in the Bengali press. He thinks that it means the "repudiation" of Surendra Babu and the abandonment of the Partition Agitation. Prodigious! Apparently the Englishman has yet ...
... Banerji was bediademed neither with a crown of gems nor a crown of thorns, but only a harmless chaplet of flowers. Moreover, the ceremony was not in the nature of an abhishek or coronation but a shanti-sechan or homage of hearts from Bengal's assembled Pundits. We do not think the explanation betters things in any way. In whatever way we look at it, the whole affair was a piece of childishness which ...
... remain out of jail is a clear sign that the British Empire is coming to an end. The Statesman has at last come to the rescue anent the moral belabouring of Babu Surendranath Banerji for his Shanti-Sechan indiscretion. The Statesman sees two dangers looming through the dust which has been kicked up over the affair. One is that Page 151 the ignorant peasantry may imagine a King has been ...
... tremor in mother earth, keeping time, as it were, to the nervous tremors of the bold British and the timid Indian heart, at the present Indian unrest in Bengal caused by Sonar Bangla and the Shanti-Sechan? Page 184 ...
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