Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, May 16th, 1907 }   Mr. Morley's Pronouncement   The attitude assumed by Mr. John Morley in answer to the questions in Parliament about the latest act of mediaeval tyranny, cannot surprise those who have something more than surface knowledge of English politics and English politicians. Those who have been behind the scenes in English political life, know perfectly well that there sincerity is an element which does not exist. Professions, principles, ideals are the tinsel and trappings of the stage; each politician is an actor who has a part to play and plays it, certain set sentiments to mouth and mouths them. B

Bhawani Mandir   This pamphlet, unsigned but certainly by Sri Aurobindo, was issued in 1905.     Cover of Bhawani Mandir   This copy of the pamphlet was put in as evidence in the Alipore Bomb Case (1908­09). Note the signature of Barindrakumar Ghose (Sri Aurobindo's brother and the chief accused in the case), police and court identification numbers, and other markings.     OM Namas Chandikayai.   A temple is to be erected and consecrated to Bhawani, the mother, among the hills. To all the children of the mother, the call is sent forth to help in the sacred work.   WHO IS BHAWANI?   Who is Bhaw

Part Three   Bande Mataram   under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24 October 1906 ­ 27 May 1907 In October 1906 a joint-stock company, the Bande Mataram Printers and Publishers, Limited, was established in order to put the finances of the Bande Mataram on a secure basis. (A prospectus announcing the formation of the company is printed as the first piece in Appendix Two.) The company directors appointed Sri Aurobindo and Bipin Chandra Pal as joint editors of the newspaper. Soon afterwards Pal withdrew, leaving Sri Aurobindo in full charge of the Bande Mataram's editorial policy. No issue of the newspaper appeared between 16 and

Articles Published in Bande Mataram in November and December 1906   The Ideal 1. Bande Mataram 2. Prologue of Anandamath Nov 1. 1906 do   Mr. John Morley & his Policy . 1. The Settled Fact Again Nov 2. 1906   Mendicancy 1. By the Way 2. By the Way 3. Mr. Gokhale's Vision Nov 1. 1906 Nov 5. 1906 Nov 13. 1906

Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, November 4th, 1907 }   Difficulties at Nagpur   The difficulties experienced at Nagpur in bringing about the compromise which at one time seemed on the point of being effected, do not strike a mind outside the whirlpool of local excitement and controversy as either obvious or insurmountable; yet it is evident that so much importance is being attached to them as to seriously imperil the chance of a Congress session being held at all this year. It is imperative that some decision should be arrived at in the course of the next few days either one way or the other. Both sides lay the blame of the failure to arrive at an ag

Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, June 22nd, 1907 }   Mr. A. Chaudhuri's Policy   Mr. Ashutosh Chaudhuri has used the opportunity given to him by his selection for the chair of the Pabna Conference to make a personal pronouncement of policy. This is the second time that Mr. Chaudhuri has had an opportunity of this kind, the first being the Provincial conference at Burdwan. On that occasion he made a pronouncement which indicated a new departure in politics and created some flutter in the Congress dovecotes. It would not be accurate to say that the Burdwan pronunciamento influenced the course of affairs; the propounder of the new policy, if suc

Bande Mataram   { CALCUTTA, August 27th, 1906 }   Schools for Slaves   Mr. John Morley from his seat in Parliament professes Liberal principles as the guiding star of the Government of India; in India itself the various Governments openly and deliberately enforce reaction. The head master of the Thana High School punished certain students for forming a Debating Club in which they discussed Swadeshi. Several of the guardians insisted on their boys vindicating their natural rights, whereupon the head master promptly suspended them. The guardians, following strict constitutionalist principles, appealed to the Bombay Government; but a

Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, June 6th, 1907 }   A Statement   Mr. John Morley has committed himself in the House of Commons to a trenchant and unqualified statement that the whole blame for the disturbances in East Bengal lies upon the Hindus who, by a violent and obstreperous boycott attended with coercion and physical force, have irritated the Mahomedans into revolt. Whether Mr. Morley made this statement out of a sweet trustfulness in the man on the spot or relying upon his philosophical judgment and innate powers of reasoning does not concern us at all. Everyone knows that the statement is untrue. The boycott was no doubt the final cause of the

Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, June 17th, 1907 }   Slow but Sure   Commenting on Mr. Morley's Budget Speech the Statesman remarks— "It is to be hoped that the new concessions will be received in no carping spirit, and that there will be a resolute determination to make the best of them. Under English rule, wherever it is found, reforms are almost invariably slow and gradual. England abhors a revolution, or even the logical working out of a principle— unless it be very gradually. It proceeds by compromises and half-measures. But this cautious policy has been justified by results. The advance, if slow, is sure, and a persistent well-reason

Bande Mataram { CALCUTTA, March 11th, 1908 }   The Voice of the Martyrs   We are now rejoicing over the release of Srijut Bipin Chandra Pal, but who among us is prepared to forget that so many have suffered for the country not less or more than he, and are still suffering? Yesterday when we welcomed the great orator, the man of high thoughts and inspired eloquence, the prophet of new ideas to his people, our thoughts went for a while to those who are now in British prisons, to Bhupen, to Basanta, to the Editor of the Barisal Hitaishi and the Rangpur Vartabaha, to the aged Maulavi spending the last years of his noble life in the severities of a