Arabinda Ghose
Arabinda Ghose ... Stands For A New Movement Of Ideas, And Not As Leader Of A Political Organisation. But If Pal's Ambition Has Been To Impregnate The Minds Of The Young With A New Vision ; Ghose's Ambition Was To Capture Existing Organisations For The Spread Of His Ideas. Pal ...
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Bal Gangadhar Tilak Gokhale's Credit That He Successfully Applied Western Methods Of Study And Discussion While Facing Particular Difficulties And Suggested A Solution Of Individual Problems. It Is Also To Be Admitted That He Performed Skilful And Brilliant Debating Manoeuvres When Threshing Out Indian Questions In The Council Chamber Or ...
Bepin Chandra Pal
Bepin Chandra Pal Take The Liberty To Expound B Epin Chandra Pal's Views And State His Contribution To The National Move Ment, First Because Of Our Conviction That Bepin Chandra Pal Is Not A Revolutionary Extremist Accor Ding To Any Intelligible Interpretation Of That Word ; And Secondly, Because Of ...
Dadabhoy Naoroji
Dadabhoy Naoroji Distinctive Value Of Naoroji's Services To India Arises From The Fact Of His Membership Of The Parsee Community, Which Though Commercially Enter Prising, Has Assumed, From Time To Time, An Attitude Of Aloofness From Indian Political Demands. Nor Is This Greatly To Be Wondered At. Ever Since Their ...
Gopala Krishna Gokhale
Gopala Krishna Gokhale The Muster-roll Of Indian Publicists That Have Nobly Served Their Country, The Late Mr. Gokhale Occupied A Very Conspicuous Position,—indeed, A Position Which, If Not Unequalled, Has Never Been Surpassed, By The Foremost Of His Contemporaries. It Were Idle Or At Any Rate Premature To Predict, At ...
Indias Nation Builders
India's Nation Builders Thus The Schism Grew And Permanently Divided The Samaj Between The Adi Brahma Samaj (i.e., Original) And The Sadharana Section (i.e., Universal). The Attitude Of The Former Section Towards Caste And Other Hindu Ceremonies Is Uncertain, Much Being Left To The Private Judgment And Discretion Of Individual ...
Kali Charan Banurji
Kali Charan Banurji Sometimes Suggested, With A Poignant Sense Of Disappointment, That Indian Christians As A Body Have Not Brought Themselves Into Full Accord With National Aspirations And Ideals. But If We Analyse This Statement We Shall Discover How Superficial It Is. In The First Place, No Indian Community As ...
Keshab Chandra Sen
Keshab Chandra Sen The Death Of Raja Rama Mohan Roy In Bristol In 1833, The Brahma Samaj Was Indeed In A Precarious Position, And But For The Munificent Generosity Of Prince Dwarka Nath Tagore—sir Rabindra Nath's Grandfather—would Have Died A Natural Death. But Even More Valuable Than The Financial Assistance ...
Lala Lajpat Rai
Lala Lajpat Rai Among Indian Politicians Has Been Less Under Stood And More Misunderstood Both By Friends And Hostile Critics Than Lajpat Rai, Whose Political Record Marks A Series Of What Appear Like Petty Persecutions, And A Whole Farrago Of Blundering Accusations. It Has Been His Sad Lot To Be ...
M K Gandhi
M. K. Gandhi Comes Of An Influential Family Of Noble Lineage, And Was Born In Porbander, On The 2nd Of October, 1869, Where His Father, Karam Chand, Was Prime Minister To The Thakur Sahib Of Rajkot. He Was The Youngest Of Three Children In The Dewan Sahib's Family. After Matriculating ...
Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Raja Ram Mohan Roy And If One Were Again Asked To Single Out The Great Man, Through Whose Personal Endeavour And Great Self-sacrifice, Abuses And Corrupt Practices That Had Gathered As Accretions Round The Once Pure And Healthy Body Of Hindu Doctrine Received, If Not A Violent Check, At Least, ...
Sir Rabindra Nath Tagore
Sir Rabindra Nath Tagore No Other Indian Occupies, At Present, A More Prominent Place In The Estimation Of Competent Critics. And If Towards The End Of A Highly Appreciative Chapter, We Become Somewhat Critical Of Tagore's Expressed Ideas On Politics And Social Philosophy, It Is With No Intention Of Minimising ...
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan Raja Ram Mohun Roy, The Illustrious Founder Of The Brahma Samaj, Did For The Moral And Intel Lectual Rejuvenation Of The Hindus, Sir Syed Ahmad Has Achieved For The Social And Educational Better Ment Of The Muslims Of India. There Would Be No Educated Muhammadan Community ...
Surendra Nath Bannerjea
Surendra Nath Bannerjea The Barest Justice To The Edmund Burke Of Bengal, —for That Would Be A Very Apt Characteri Sation Of The Famous Political Leader And Nation Builder With Whom We Are Now Dealing—that Very Few Surpass Him, Even If Some Equal Him, In Point Of The Vigorous Appeal ...
Swami Daya Nanda Saraswati
Swami Daya-nanda Saraswati Travellers In India Are Naturally Impressed With The Stateliness And Beauty Of The Taj Mahal, That Noble Monument Of Indian Art. There Is Another Building, Which Is Quite Likely To Escape Their Notice, Being Far, Far Less Imposing In Point Of Architectural Design And Idea, Situated Some ...
Swami Vivekananda
Swami Vivekananda Main Reason For Including The Swami's Life-work In These Biographical Sketches Is That Though He Was Especially Fond Of Metaphysics And Religious Specula Tion, No One Has Striven More Nobly To Modernise The General Tone Of Life In India. It Is More Than Probable That Some Of The ...