Yugantar : the name Sri Aurobindo gave to the Bengali weekly started under his inspiration in March 1906 by Barindra, Abinash Bhattacharya & others. He wrote articles for some of the earlier issues of the paper & always exercised general control over it. Abinash: “The whole responsibility of looking after Yugāntar fell on me. In the very beginning the respected Abinash Chandra Chakravarti from time to time gave considerable help with the finances…. Yugāntar was involved again & again in sedition cases…. C.I.D. officers & policemen used to come in the evening of the day before the Yugāntar was issued & confiscate all the printed copies of the paper as well as all the forms, so that the paper could not hit the streets. But even this ploy proved futile. Yugāntar hit the streets in time…. Before the police came I used to take a few copies of Yugāntar & keep them elsewhere. As soon as the forms & so forth were taken away, we would get the paper printed late at night, usually at the Hitabādi office, & send it out to the streets on time. Unable to stop us, either by charging us with sedition or by seizing the printed newspapers & forms, they finally confiscated the Sādhanā Press where Yugāntar was printed…. Barrister Asutosh Chaudhuri fought the case on my behalf. At 9.30 at night on the day I won the case, the Inspector summoned me to the station…. When I was getting ready to go, Aurobindo-babu said: “Take ten or twelve boys with you when you go; I think they may arrest you….” I went to the police station with an escort. As soon as I arrived, the Inspector showed me an arrest-warrant & said: “You are under arrest. You may be released on bail by furnishing two securities of Rs. 20,000 for a total bail of Rs. 40,000....” My companions went to Aurobindo-babu with this news; he wrote a letter & sent it to Krishnakumar Mitra, editor of Sanjivani, & wrote letters to several other men too. Krishnakumar Mitra presented himself at the police station. The well-known detective Inspector Puma Lahiri was there at that time. He accepted Krishnakumar Mitra’s surety of twenty thousand rupees. When the second security did not arrive…they were getting ready to send me to Lal Bazar police station. Just then a gentleman arrived to stand security for me…. The gentleman took an Imperial Bank cheque book out of his pocket & said: “I’m giving you this cheque for twenty thousand rupees.” …Later I came to know the gentleman’s name: Bhupati Basu.” [“Sri Aurobindo”, Mother India, July 2012, pp.528-39]
... prose," Sri Aurobindo declared, "and it was their writings and Barin's that gained an unequalled popularity for the paper." Even petty shopkeepers, tea-stall owners read the Yugantar and were fired with patriotism. The Yugantar, according to its promoters — among them Vivekananda's brother, Bhupendranath Dutt —"was dedicated to the service of the country and was the first newspaper of the revolutionary... for England or the English people; he based his claim for freedom of India on the inherent right to freedom." Sri Aurobindo was of course behind the paper Yugantar. "At Barin's suggestion he agreed to the starting of a paper, Yugantar, " he wrote while giving a general sketch of his political Page 276 life, "which was to preach open revolt and the absolute denial of the British... Vivekananda's younger brother, Bhupendranath Dutta, was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment on 24 July 1907 for 'seditious' matter that appeared in the Yugantar. The fact is that the Government was scared stiff of the Yugantar. The Sedition Committee laid the blame squarely on the Ghose brothers, Barindra and Arabinda: "The brothers with their immediate followers started various newspapers ...
... used to see at the Yugantar Office, Barindra, Upen Babu, and Dindayal Bose and Sishir Kumar Ghose. I remained at the Yugantar Office about a month or so. I then returned to Khulna, but was in the habit of paying periodical visits to the Yugantar Office. I used to study Philosophy, History, Geography and religious politics on the quiet, both at my father’s house and the Yugantar Office, with the intention... and put up in 46, Ramtanu Bose’s lane, students’ and officers’ mess. I cultivated the friendship of Barindra Babu in the Yugantar Office, as I used to go to the office to get papers. This was about a year ago. I stopped at the mess only two days and then removed to the Yugantar Office, where I worked as an accountant, I received no pay but all my expenses were defrayed by the manager. There was mess... father’s knowledge. I used to receive instruction at the Yugantar Office from Upendra Nath Banerjee on Mental Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Physical Philosophy, and from him I learnt what it was to sacrifice my life for my motherland and self-abnegation. I have visited Calcutta about 10 or 12 times and each time I put up at the Yugantar, where I received my usual instructions as already quoted ...
... had once seen similar writings on the wall of his hall of feasting, words that spoke of the imminent doom of his empire. To the country and its youth the Yugantar gave its initiation of fire for nearly a couple of years. It was only after the Yugantar group had decided that the time had now come for action and not propaganda alone that there came to be established the centre at Manicktolla Gardens in... Gardens, that is when we turned towards terroristic activities like the manufacture of bombs, collecting pistols and rifles and making good use of them. The first chapter had already begun with the Yugantar newspaper. As we took up these revolutionary activities, we discovered that it was not easy to carryon this kind of secret work unless there was common in the country as a whole a keen... its advocacy of freedom had to follow as far as possible the lines of peace, its path had to be that of Passive Resistance. Page 356 But Yugantar shed off all the masks. It was the first to declare openly for an armed revolt and spoke in terms of regular warfare. It wrote out its message in words of fire and spread it to the four corners of ...
... Aurobindo's poetry. Both the popular papers, Yugantar and Bande Mataram were gall and wormwood to the British bureaucracy, which were watching for an opportunity to swoop down upon them and smother them to death. And an opportunity always comes handy to an autocrat. On the 7th June, 1907, the Bengal Government issued a warning to the Yugantar that police action would be taken against it... and galvanised by his spiritual influence. This was the material out of which he had to shape the destiny of the nation. According to one biographer83, Sri Aurobindo at first put up at the Yugantar Office at Kanaidhar Lane in Calcutta, but Subodh Mullick, "one of Sri Aurobindo's collaborators in his secret action and afterwards also in Congress politics", and about whose munificent gift for... it if it persisted in Page 240 publishing inflammatory, seditious articles. On the 8th June, 1907, a similar warning was given to the Bande Mataram. On the 3rd July, Yugantar office was searched. Bhupendra Nath Datta, youngest brother of Swami Vivekananda, declared that he was the editor of the paper and courted arrest.102 He was sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment ...
... Datta on the staff of Yugantar. Everyday some enormity or other was happening, and Sri Aurobindo happened to know much more about those things than most politicians, even most Nationalists, for he had his links with the underground Revolutionaries too. He was teaching at the National College - he was editing the Bande Mataram - he was keeping an eye on the Yugantar - he was directing the... were complicated three-tier nets to catch even the most slippery fish! First warnings were issued to the Yugantar (on 7 June 1907) and the Bande Mataram (on 8 June) that, if they didn't learn to behave better, police action might ensue against them. After a decent interval, the Yugantar Office was searched on 3 July, and Bhupendranath Datta (instead of prudently trying to save his own neck)... first he stayed with his friend and political Associate, Raja Subodh Mullick, at his palatial residence, 12 Wellington Street. Perhaps Sri Aurobindo had temporary shelter for a few days at the Yugantar Office at Kanaidhar Lane before he shifted to Subodh Mullick's place. But here too he couldn't make a permanent stay, for that would have proved too embarrassing to the members of Mullick's ...
... So the Government decided to act. They issued a warning both to the Yugantar (on June 7, 1907) and the Bande Mataram (on June 8, 1907) for using inflammatory language and cautioned them that if they did not desist, police action and prosecution would ensue. The Government followed this up with police search of the Yugantar office on July 3 and arrested Bhupendra Nath Dutt, as you know. On July... appreciated by his countrymen when they came to hear of it. There was another notable development during Sri Aurobindo's visit to Calcutta. In March 1906 Barindra and others started a Bengali weekly, Yugantar, a revolutionary journal which became immensely popular and influential, particularly amongst the youth. Sri Aurobindo wrote articles for some of the earlier issues of the paper and exercised a general... Government, alarmed at the popularity of the paper, eventually arrested Bhupendranath Dutt, Swami Vivekananda's brother, who came forward as the editor, and sentenced him to jail on a charge of sedition. Yugantar finally had to cease publication in June 1908, but during its short career it attacked the Government fearlessly. Around this time a book in Bengali entitled Desher Katha was also causing a ...
... That was the Bande Mataram Sedition Case. In 1907 the Government began 'seditious' proceedings against the Press, targetting in the main the three extremist newspapers running in Bengal: Yugantar, Sandhya, 1 an eveninger, 1. Sandhya, a Bengali daily, made its debut in 1904, that is two years before Page 356 and the Bande Mataram. Between them they practically... corner of the Manager's office and caught hold of everything that bore the semblance of paper.... They spent nearly two hours in the Office of the Joint Stock Company and went on with the Yugantar and Bande Mataram. Its articles were written in a language easily understandable by ordinary citizens-tram conductors, shopkeepers, stall owners. It prepared the common man for uncommon ideas... Congress. The role of Sri Aurobindo in shaping the new Indian politics was causing alarm to the rulers. Already, the Intelligence Bureau was categorical that Arabindo Ghose was "the chief of the Yugantar band, who has exercised a greater influence over the revolutionary movement in India than perhaps any other man." 2 1. Life-Work of Sri Aurobindo. 2.West Bengal govt.'s I. B. ...
... guided. In March, at the suggestion of Barin, Aurobindo agreed to start a paper in Bengali, Yugantar (The Changing Age), ‘which was to preach open revolt and the absolute denial of the British rule.’ 37 The aim of this publication was to openly popularize the idea of violent revolt. The editors of Yugantar, under the supervision of Aurobindo, ‘were in fact the leaders of the first revolutionary... the Party, and also laid down its programme of action.’ 39 Aurobindo was the Principal of a brand-new College, at which he was also Professor of English and History; he had to supervise Yugantar ; he contributed regularly to Bande Mataram ; he was active as a leader of the Bengal nationalists, having to go on tours and to attend meetings and conferences; and besides this he still mustered... place by some of his friends. However, this happened without Aurobindo’s consent, for he had a sincere appreciation of Pal. The fact that the British did not react earlier to the threat posed by Yugantar, Bande Mataram and a couple of other extremist newspapers in Bengal astonished even Barin when he looked back many years later. One of the reasons may have been that the British did not yet consider ...
... only after the Yugantar group had decided that the time had now come for action and not propaganda alone that there came to be established the centre at Manicktolla Gardens in Muraripukur. The section entrusted with real work and the people concerned with propaganda were to form two distinct groups; one was to work in secret, the other out in the open. Hence the work of Yugantar was entrusted... Gardens, that is when we turned towards terroristic activities like the manufacture of bombs, collecting pistols and rifles and making good use of them. The first chapter had already begun with the Yugantar newspaper. As we took up these revolutionary activities, we discovered that it was not easy to carry on this kind of secret work unless there was, common in the country as a whole, a keen desire... Even so, Bandemataram had to keep within the letter of the law; its advocacy of freedom had to follow as far as possible the lines of peace, its path had to be that of Passive Resistance. But Yugantar shed off all the masks. It was the first to declare openly for an armed revolt and spoke in terms of regular warfare. It wrote out its message in words of fire and spread it to the four corners ...
... Bengali paper, Yugantar, that had commenced its tempestuous career on 12 March 1906, was run by Barin, Upen Banerjee and Debabrata Bose and promulgated, week after week, its message of revolution and advocated guerrilla warfare in unambiguous terms. Sri Aurobindo came to Calcutta soon after, took charge of the Bande Mataram, and also exercised some control over the Yugantar. Early in 1907... affiliations with the revolutionaries in Western India and Bengal: hence his continuing close links with the Revolutionaries after his coming to Bengal in 1906: hence his anxious watch on the Yugantar, and later on the Nova Śakti, which were the de facto organs of the Revolutionaries. And all this was both facilitated and necessitated by the circumstance that his younger brother, Barindra... caught malignant fever there and returned. Now it occurred to Barin that a miniature Bhavani Mandir should be started in Calcutta to translate into action the vitriolic policies propagated by the Yugantar. There was a piece of family property, the Manicktolla Gardens, in Murari Pukur Bagan in north Calcutta, and Barin decided to move there and start operations. It was a wild place, about two and ...
... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Barisal Conference and the Start of the Yugantar [At the Barisal Conference (April 1906)] Sri Aurobindo took part in the Barisal Conference and was in the front row 1 of three persons in the procession which was Page 76 dispersed by the... Sri Aurobindo's younger brother, Barindra Kumar Ghose.... Bhupendranath Dutt . In the interests of truth this name should be omitted. Bhupen Dutt was at the time only an obscure hand in the Yugantar office incapable of writing anything important and an ordinary recruit in the revolutionary ranks quite incapable of leading anybody, not even himself. When the police searched the office of the newspaper... newspaper, he came forward and in a spirit of bravado declared himself the editor, although that was quite untrue. Afterwards he wanted to defend himself, but it was decided that the Yugantar, a paper ostentatiously revolutionary advocating armed insurrection, could not do that and must refuse to plead in a British court. This position was afterwards maintained throughout and greatly enhanced the prestige ...
... has overreached itself in instituting a case under the sedition clause against the editor of the Yugantar . The Punjabee prosecution did untold harm to their prestige and helped to shatter the not overabundant remnants of their moral ascendancy; its work was negative and destructive. But the Yugantar prosecution has been a positive gain to the national cause; it has begun the positive work of building... building up the moral ascendancy of the people which is to replace that of the alien and nullify his mere material superiority. This momentous result the editor of Yugantar has brought about by his masterly inactivity. His refusal to plead has been worth many sensational trials. It has produced an enormous effect on the public mind all over India, not only as an individual instance of moral courage... practice of freedom. To break the Boycott and to stop the 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 of Bipin 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 Nationalists ...
... Statesman has also absurdly distorted the "proceedings against the Yugantar and Nabasakti ". No proceedings have been instituted. The police while searching the Keshab Press for manuscripts in connection with the pamphlet Sonar Bangla —which has, by the way, no connection with the Hare Street mare's nest—stumbled on the forms of the Yugantar then being printed. The Keshab Press is being proceeded against... against, but it is doubtful whether anything will be done to the Yugantar , as the printing of a paper in part or whole at another press in emergency is so common an occurrence that, even if it be a technical offence, which is not certain, to prosecute it would be purely vindictive. In any case the Yugantar business is not, as the Statesman represents, the first step in a campaign against the N ...
... necessary ardour and enthusiasm, he could inspire the youth with his words, but unfortunately the pride of leadership was prominent in his nature. When he began editing the paper Page 114 Yugantar in which he openly advocated revolution, it sent shock-waves through the nation. My articles too were published in that paper." "Please tell us something about Sister Nivedita." "Why? Don't... youth of the land continued to be inducted secretly into the Movement, the revolutionary spirit was inculcated into them, culminating in their training in armed combat. On the other hand, the journal Yugantar openly published articles that aroused in the masses the demand for total freedom by whatever means possible, even by violence if necessary. Freedom would never be ours if we relied on the British... 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 could not discover the name of the editor against whom to file its charges. Vivekananda's brother appeared before the court on behalf of the paper. At my ...
... Mataram Srijut Bhupendranath 26-July-1907 At the meeting held day before yesterday in the College Square to express sympathy with the editor of the Yugantar and congratulate him on his good fortune in being so signally chosen out to suffer for the Motherland, it was pointed out that Srijut Bhupendranath had initiated a new departure in the struggle with... represented, Srijuts Ashutosh Chaudhuri, Aswini Banerji, Chittaranjan Das and A. K. Ghose appearing for him in the case, and had he chosen, as he did not choose, to make a sensational trial of the Yugantar case and win for himself popular notoriety, he could easily have done so. We think, however, it might have been better if Srijut Bhupendranath had rejected even this brilliant legal assistance and... phrase, "I have done what I considered my duty to my country" and ended by saying, "I do not wish to make any farther statement or to take any part in the case ." This was clear enough; the editor of Yugantar , consistent with the views he had publicly professed, refused to do anything which would seem to be an acknowledgement of responsibility to the codified caprice or selfishness of the small handful ...
... insurgents, cherishing a desperate hope which modern conditions deny, grasping at the weapons Page 434 which the Slav and the Celt have brought into political warfare. The seeds which the Yugantar sowed in its brief, violent and meteoric career have borne fruit in unexpected quarters and new-born journals repeat in foreign lands and in the English tongue the incitations to revolt and slaughter... the bulk of the nation. Its Growth What is the precise nature, propaganda and strength of this party, which by so small an expenditure of energy has produced such surprising results? When the Yugantar , abandoning its habit of philosophic Revolutionism, first began to enter the field of practical politics, to sneer at passive resistance and gird at its chief exponents, no one thought that its change... its style, a new thing in Bengali journalism, and from the natural attraction men feel for strong writing and bold thought even when they do not agree with it. Afterwards the reckless fight of the Yugantar for existence attracted a more dangerous admiration and from that time the journal changed from a thing of literary interest into a political force. Even then it was taken as a practical guide only ...
... regular army in fact, with its full complement of weapons and equipment and trained by regular drills. The "civil" side was to deal with external work like journalism, propaganda and recruitment. The Yugantar , and later the Navashakti, became our publicity organs. I was not much attracted by this "civil" side; I wanted to become one of the "military" men. Prafulla who was one of those dreamy, "introvert"... in military drill or the use of weapons. So, I had to begin with the science of warfare rather than its art. Barin was at that time writing his series on The Principles of Modern Warfare for the Yugantar . I too began my study of the subject. I started going to the Imperial Library (now the National Library) in Calcutta for my studies and research. Where could I begin? Well, it was a book called ... drained and filled and the house razed to the ground. The British authorities had dug up every inch of the area to see if any weapons might have been kept hidden anywhere. I found in the case of the Yugantar office also which stood next to the Medical College that it too had been pulled down and there was only a little plot of open ground left in its place. Page 346 you live? And you ...
... army in fact, with its full complement of weapons and equipment and trained by regular drills. The "civil" side was to deal with external work like journalism, propaganda and recruitment. The Yugantar , and later the Navashakti , became our publicity organs. I was not much attracted by this "civil" side; I wanted to become one of Page 10 the "military" men. Prafulla who was one... in military drill or the use of weapons. So, I had to begin with the science of warfare rather than its art. Barin was at that time writing his series on The Principles of Modern Warfare for the Yugantar . I too began my study of the subject. I started going to the Imperial Library (now the National Library) in Calcutta for my studies and research. Where could I begin? Well, it was a book called... and filled and the house razed to the ground. The British authorities had dug up every inch of the area to see if any weapons might have been kept hidden anywhere. I have found in the case of the Yugantar office also which stood next to the Medical College that it too had been pulled down and there was only a little plot of open ground left in its place. page-16 with me now?" He answered ...
... "nobody bothered about the income and expenditure, for we were not out for money-making". 19 Incidentally, the Yugantar office at Kanaidhar Lane in Calcutta also became Barin's base of operations for his 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... Calcutta in July 1906, certain avenues of activity had been - or were being - opened for him. In the first place, he had permitted, on Barindra's suggestion, the starting of a weekly paper in Bengali, Yugantar, on 13 March 1906. The paper was to preach "open revolt and the absolute denial of the British rule", and Sri Aurobindo himself wrote some of the leading articles in the early issues, and "always ...
... the most of every stray scrap or faint shadow of evidence against the accused, the Magistrate was a Civilian Magistrate whose leanings have never been concealed, the same who gave two years to the Yugantar Printer, who sent Bipin 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... reproduced as such, that is one count; and an insignificant correspondence which does not even profess to give voice to the policy of the paper, that is the second and third; and there is no other. The Yugantar was prosecuted on articles expressing its essential policy; the Sandhya has been proceeded against on articles expressing its views on important matters; but it was sought to crush the Bande ...
... recently inflicted on him, but expressed his obligation to the Magistrate for having afforded him an opportunity to serve his country! He has gone to jail perhaps never to return again. The story of the Yugantar newspaper is very wonderful. No sooner was one editor sentenced to one year's imprisonment than another took his place. The moment the second man was prosecuted and sentenced, a third one came forward... paper was continued. Whenever any editor was punished, his great concern was for the future issue of the paper; he did not think of his wife and children first. In Page 859 this way the Yugantar still continues. And so the Bengalis are sacrificing their self-interest and their all in accordance with the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita: "Thy business is with the action only, never with its ...
... the Bande Mataram and put forth the call for national independence through self-help and passive resistance. Barin and his friends, with Sri Aurobindo's approval, started the vernacular daily, Yugantar, which openly urged the deliverance of the country through revolutionary means. Its leading writers were superb polemicists. 1) This life-sketch, and the reminiscences that follow it, are excerpted... and Bob Zwicker, 1995 ed., pp. 199-206. The fiery newspaper soon became immensely popular, with a readership at times in the tens of thousands. Aware of its influence, the Government prosecuted Yugantar six times for sedition during its brief lifespan. Eager to do more than just talk about revolution, Barin formed his own revolutionary group in mid 1907,establishing his headquarters and training ...
... movement. ¹ Sri Aurobindo has written: "The work under P. Mitra spread enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper Yugantar became general in the young generation; but during my absence at Baroda the council ceased to exist as it was impossible to keep up agreement among the many groups." ² After returning from... leave was granted from 1 March. Thus it was possible for him to pass the whole of the first term of the college as well as the summer vacation in Bengal. On 12 March 1906 the declaration of the Yugantar , a Bengali journal, was filed. On 14 April 1906 the famous Barisal conference was held. Sri Aurobindo attended. The conference was declared illegal by the government and the participants were ...
... is the case, as Girija says, it is a very strange doctrine. 36. In the Jyaistha 1351 issue, Girija contends that there was a difference in the standard adopted in the Bande Mataram and the Yugantar cases. He suggests, without affirming, that Sri Aurobindo advised Bhupen Dutt to suffer imprisonment while he offered defence in the Bande Mataram prosecution. Hence Sri Aurobindo was not consistent... party. It was a political paper with a programme of national reconstruction, passive resistance and self-reliance. It could not be expected to act like a revolutionary paper. For a paper like the Yugantar , avowedly revolutionary, it would have been most inconsistent to offer defence. For Bande Mataram it was natural that it should take all the advantage that law could give to defend its liberty ...
... After the Pujas, having spent a month in Baidyanath, we returned to Calcutta. My parents had become anxious, not receiving any news of my whereabouts and had sent my elder brother to enquire at the Yugantar office and take me back home. I mentioned all of this to Sri Aurobindo. He gave me some money and asked me to go home to Khulna. I asked him the reason — for I thought he had had enough of me and... out suits used by Sri Aurobindo during his stay in England and put them on us with her own hands; in this way she would dress us up, when we had occasion to visit subscribers of Bande Mataram and Yugantar for funds. The Universal Identity I have heard it said that Sri Aurobindo had realised identity with all things — earth, trees, stones, birds, and beasts — with his own body, more intimately ...
... secondary and subordinate element. He took advantage, however, of the Swadeshi movement to popularise the idea of violent revolt in the future. At Barin's suggestion he agreed to the starting of a paper, Yugantar , which was to preach open revolt and the absolute denial of the British rule and include such items as a series of articles containing instructions for guerrilla warfare. Sri Aurobindo himself wrote... general control; when a member of the sub-editorial staff, Swami Vivekananda's brother, presented himself on his own motion to the police in a search as the editor of the paper and was prosecuted, the Yugantar under Sri Aurobindo's orders adopted the policy of refusing to defend itself in a British Court on the ground that it did not recognise the foreign Government and this immensely increased the prestige ...
... 1906 March : Came to Calcutta which was the main centre of his work till his departure for Chandernagore in February 1910. The same month, started the Bengali paper Yugantar, himself contributing articles to it. April: Attended the famous sessions of the Bengal Provincial Conference at Barisal, after which toured and lectured in the districts of... Garden. April: Contributed a series of articles to the Bande Mataram entitled 'The Doctrine of Passive Resistance'. August I6: Arrested for reproducing Yugantar articles in the Bande Mataram. The charge failed as Bepinchandra Pal refused to give evidence, for which Pal had to undergo six months' imprisonment. Poet Tagore's celebrated ...
... secondary and subordinate element. He took advantage, however, of the Swadeshi movement to popularise the idea of violent revolt in the future. At Barin's suggestion he agreed to the starting of a paper, Yugantar , which was to preach open revolt and the absolute denial of the British rule and include such items as a series of articles containing instructions for guerrilla warfare. Sri Aurobindo himself wrote... general control; when a member of the sub-editorial staff, Swami Vivekananda's brother, presented himself on his own motion to the police in a search as the editor of the paper and was prosecuted, the Yugantar under Sri Aurobindo’s orders adopted the policy of refusing to defend itself in a British Court on the ground that it did not recognise the foreign Government and this immensely increased the prestige ...
... council of five persons, one of them being Nivedita. The work under P. Mitra spread enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper Yugantar 1 became general in the young generation ; but during my absence at Baroda the council ceased to exist as it was impossible to keep up agreement among the many groups." Although Sri Aurobindo's... suffer by that," he wrote, "for the general idea was taken up and activity of many separate groups led to a 1. According to a Secret Police report, "In more than one case a visit to the Yugantar office was th e first step towards an introduction to th e innercircles of the society ." Page 315 greater and more widespread diffusion of the revolutionary drive and its action ...
... has done what seemed good in his own eyes or else remained inactive. The result has been much weakness, supineness and ineffectiveness. Barisal fights for its own hand to maintain the boycott. The Yugantar attacked carries on a heroic struggle with the bureaucracy with what stray assistance, individual generosity or patriotism may offer it. But organised Page 630 resistance, organised ...
... very nobility, and by police oppression, surveillance and harassment he will, when he thinks necessary, try to grind down, wear away and gradually efface the thing he fears. In the beginning of the Yugantar case one young man who was questioned by the police wished to take upon himself the responsibility for the incriminating articles, but the inquiring officer told him, "Whatever you may say, you will ...
... Page 640 and orator as Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal whose speeches and writings have extorted the reluctant admiration of our bitterest opponents in England; at another it is the editor of Yugantar who is apostrophied as an ill-educated adolescent—a paper every single issue of which evidences more knowledge, reading and power of thought and expression than the whole year's output of the Indian ...
... effects of bureaucratic wrath in order to give an example to the country of heroic self-sacrifice and a living demonstration of the spirit of Swarajism; but they did it in the full confidence that the Yugantar would continue undaunted and unchanged in the course it conceived to be its duty to the nation. Had they exposed themselves with the knowledge that their disappearance would have meant the death ...
... out of the national system and the blood began to circulate freely in our veins. Once more we stood up as men and not as gibbering spectres of a vanished humanity. The attitude of the Sandhya and Yugantar , consistently maintained in the dock, stood for a revival of Indian sincerity, truthfulness, manliness, fearlessness; it was the resurgence of the Arya, the ideal of honour and quiet manhood which ...
... only did Aurobindo – as he now spelled his name – have a full-time job in helping the National College afloat, he also supervised a revolutionary Bengali weekly, the organ of the militant extremists Yugantar (the changing age), edited by his brother Barin; he wrote for Bande Mataram , an English weekly which followed the line of the revolutionary nationalists and made Aurobindo Ghose’s voice heard ...
... a short while himself the unnamed chief editor of the weekly. Sri Aurobindo at the National College in Calcutta, 1907 He also supervised the ideological contents of another weekly, Yugantar. This was the organ of the youthful revolutionaries who clustered around Aurobindo’s younger brother Barin; impatient, they preferred acting instead of talking and wanted to accelerate the realization ...
... council of five persons, one of them being Nivedita. The work under P. Mitra spread enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper "Yugantar" became general in the young generation; but during my absence at Baroda the council ceased to exist as it was impossible to keep up agreement among the many groups. I had no occasion to meet Nivedita ...
... 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; Sri Aurobindo joined it and soon took up its editorship, side by ...
... Debabrata Basu. He had been a contemporary of Barin, U pen and Hrishikesh and was among the leaders of our group. He was one of the writers. Indeed, it was he and Upen who gave a characteristic stamp to Yugantar by their writings. His was the mind of a meditative thinker. His thought was wide in its range, rich in knowledge, he had insight and inner experience. And all this he could combine with a fine sense ...
... possibilities of his revolutionary plan and the general political situation of the province. It was now felt that an organ was urgently needed to popularise the idea of violent revolt, and, so, Yugantar, a Bengali paper, was started. It was Barin's project, approved by Sri Aurobindo. It was "to preach open revolt and the absolute denial of the British rule and include such items as a series of ...
... The second series, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee , written after the passing of the Bengali writer, appeared in seven instalments from July 16 to August 27, 1894. Yugantar Bengali Weekly Calcutta A revolutionary journal started by Sri Aurobindo's brother Barindra and others in March 1906. Sri Aurobindo wrote articles for some of the earlier issues ...
... Prabartak , Vol. XXXV, No. 9 (Paush 1357), p. 364. See also Amarendranath Chatterji, "Sri Aurobinder Sange Sakshatkar", pp. 818-19. Page 123 At that time some young men of the Yugantar party used to come to Sri Aurobindo at 6, College Square for reading the Gita. Sri Aurobindo sat on the verandah with hands crossed, in the freezing cold of the winter, with only a dhoti and a ...
... February 19 Applies for privilege leave. March 2 Goes to Bengal. March 11 Present at the formation of the National Council of Education in Calcutta. March 12 Declaration of the Yugantar, a Bengali weekly. Sri Aurobindo writes some articles in the early numbers of this revolutionary journal and always exercises general control over it. April 14 At the Barisal Conference. Afterwards ...
... see in it clearly the distinction between non-violence and passive resistance. On 24 July 1907 Bhupendranath Dutt, a brother of Vivekananda, was sentenced for seditious material that appeared in Yugantar. He wanted to offer defence, but Sri Aurobindo said that it was illogical for a revolutionary to recognise a foreign court and its jurisdiction. On 30 July 1907 there was a search of the Bande ...
... 1906 — February 19 Takes privilege leave; goes to Bengal. March 11 Present at the formation of the National Council of Education in Calcutta. March 12 Declaration of the Yugantar, a Bengali weekly. Sri Aurobindo writes some articles in the early numbers of this revolutionary journal and always exercises general control over it. April 14 At the Barisal Conference ...
... howled at the Nationalists. We shall never really measure the extent of influence the media wielded. On the one side were Nationalist papers like Kesari of Maharashtra, Bande Mataram and Yugantar of Bengal, India of Tamil Nadu, and many others, all of which made Indians aware of the myriad injustices practised by a foreign government, and awakened them to their rich inheritance. Arrayed ...
... remained untraceable for about a week —at least for over three days. Now, who was Lele? And why did Sri Aurobindo meet him? When the Government cracked down on the press, and after the Sandhya-Yugantar-Bande Mataram cases, Barin and company decided that mere verbal attacks on the foreigners were not going to lead them anywhere. That pushed, them to start the Maniktola garden where the inmates were ...
... Bande Mataram office, a second in the bomb store at 134 Harrison Road, and a third in the house of Debabrata Bose, one of the chief writers with Barin for the revolutionary Bengali journal, the Yugantar. 1. In the History of Modern Bengal, Part 2 (p. 175), R. C. Majumdar mentions about "its Hindi and Bengali translations." Page 273 ...
... in California, followed by great fires; hundreds of deaths. March 11 — Sri Aurobindo attends the creation of the 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 ...
... political purposes.] This is not correct. In these visits he was not concerned with politics. It was some years afterwards that he made a journey along with Devabrata Bose, Barin's co-adjutor in the Yugantar, partly to visit some of the revolutionary centres already formed, but also to meet leading men in the districts and find out the general attitude of the country and the possibilities of the revolutionary ...
... 69, 109, 137 , 159 , 186 national Yoga, 93 old system o f, ISO, 194 Sri Aurobindo 's, 144-145, 171 , 189 , 191 ,193-194,201,202,203 yo u t h, the young, 44 , 52 , 57 , 154 see also education Yugantar (Bengali weekly), 17 zamindar, 40(fn) zenana, 44 Page 271 Acheve d'imprimer sur les presses de Thomson Press (Faridabad, Inde) pour I'Institut de Recherches ...
... Balbharat and Andhra Keshari in Madras, the Aftab in the North and ourselves in Calcutta, the appearance of local papers filled with the new spirit, the sudden popularity of a paper like the Yugantar and the extent to which the new ideas are infecting journals not avowedly of the new school, are indices of the rapidity with which Nationalism is formulating itself and taking possession of the ...
... Lahore enjoy the monopoly of pouring daily vile abuses on us with perfect safety and immunity? Is it due to this freedom that we are threatened with imprisonment for republishing the articles of the Yugantar and they are supported and patronised for the very same offence? Is it for this enviable freedom that some innocent men of Comilla were very near being hanged and transported without a shred of evidence ...
... accepted. Upendranath Banerji . A member of Barindra Kumar Ghose's revolutionary group, Upendranath joined the Bande Mataram around December 1906. He also wrote for the Bengali paper Yugantar . From mid-1907 he was kept busy by revolutionary work. It is known that Sri Aurobindo was the leading writer for the Bande Mataram from November 1906 to May 1908, except when he was ...
... this country today? Just as I was coming in, this paper ( showing a copy of the Bande Mataram newspaper ) was put into my hands, and looking at the first page of it, I saw two items of news. "The 'Yugantar' Trial, Judgment delivered, the Printer convicted and sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment." The other is "Another Newspaper Prosecution, The 'Nabasakti' Office sacked and searched, Printer ...
... thought made Bengali youths strong; they exposed themselves to the attacks of the police and the wrath of the Government, and they were prepared for jail. One of the youths connected with the paper Yugantar actually complained that the paper did not publish sufficiently violent articles. Such daring and enthusiasm could now be seen in Bengali youths. The new spirit or Nationalist spirit is an unshakable ...
... disparage as Extremism, but it will be well understood by those who are constant readers of the Nationalist journals in Bengal, whether the Bande Mataram or New India or vernacular journals like the Yugantar, the Nabasakti or the Sandhya. 1 Whatever their differences of temper, tone or style, however the methods they recommend may differ in detail, they are united by a common faith and a common spirit; ...
... wrting out his statements there. He wrote quite a few pages every day. In these statements he had to explain in lengthy detail his ideas and ideals, the aims and policy of the Bandemataram and Yugantar papers. Chittaranjan included all that in his speeches in court. Could the original manuscripts be recovered, they would be precious documents today. One day I mentioned to him that I had not ...
... Sir John, 491 Wordsworth, William, 176,177,614-15 Yajnavalkya, 416,505 Yeats, W.B.,615ff Yogic Sadhan, 336,380,405 Younghusband, Sir Francis, 17,202 Yugantar (Jugantar), 199, 217-18, 219, 234, 242, 243ff, 247, 284, 288ff, 399 Zaehner, R. C., 446 Zetland, Marquess of, 200 ...
... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history Bibliography Sri Aurobindo's writings have appeared in journals (notably Indu Prakash, Bande Mataram, Yugantar, Karmayogin, Dharma, Standard-Bearer, Arya and Bulletin of Physical Education), as also in book form in successive editions and impressions. For this edition the references to Sri Aurobindo's writings are ...
... formidable that in any other country with a political past it would have led to something like the French Revolution. The sympathy of the whole race was on our side. Even shopkeepers were reading Yugantar. I will tell you an instance; while a young man was running away after killing a police officer in Shambazar, he forgot to throw away his revolver. It remained in his hand. One shop-keeper cried out ...
... months. On Bepin Pal's persuasion, Sri Aurobindo had become de facto editor of the Bande Mataram in 1906, and he was also the directing force behind its revolutionary Bengali counterpart, Yugantar. After his acquittal in 1909, he had started on his own the Karmayogin and the Dharma, with a marked shift in emphasis from politics to politics cum Sanatana Dharma. And now, five years after ...
... practice of freedom. To break the Boycott and to stop the 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 ...
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