Identifier: youngindiainterp01lajp (find matches)
Title: Young India; an interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Lajpat Rai, Lala, 1865-1928
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Publisher: New York, B.W. Huebsch
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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iesand proposed to work independent of, but not in op-position to, the Government. Political in its origin,it tried to avoid all conflicts with the authorities byassuming an absolutely non-political attitude. Arahinda Ghosh. To this movement, Indian Na-tionalism owes the emerging into prominence of aquiet, unostentatious, young Hindu, who was tillthen comparatively obscure, holding his soul in pa-tience and waiting for opportunities to send currentsof the greatest strength into the nations system.He was gathering energy. His name was ArabindaGhosh. Arabinda had received first class educationin England. The headmaster of the school, wherehe studied before joining the university, is reportedto have said that during the 25 to 30 years he hadbeen in charge of the school, Arabinda Ghosh wasby far the most richly endowed in intellectual capac-ity of any of the students that had come under hischarge. At Cambridge he distinguished himself in Eu-ropean classics and took first class honours. He
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Arabinda Ghosh THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT 173 passed the Indian Civil Service examinations withcredit, but failed in the test for horsemanship.Never did a failure prove more a blessing than inhis case. He was in the service of His Highness, the Maha-raja of Baroda,^ drawing a salary of about 500pounds sterling, when his countrys call came to him.He listened to it readily, gave up his post and agreedto be the principal of the National College on tenpounds a month. We are told by one who workedwith him for some time that he did not support the declaration of the National Council of Education about their non-political attitude. He could not ap-preciate this needless dread, as they thought, ofoffending official susceptibilities. He, however, ac-cepted the verdict of the majority and began hiswork. But his position as ** the nominal head ofthe National College, controlled by men who dif-fered from him in their political views and opinions,became almost from the very beginning anomalous.This

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