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Last week, news came from Darjeeling in the Province of Bengal that Chitta Ranjan Das, the famous Indian Nationalist, was dead. His career and what it meant to India...
...excited servant, who was vainly struggling to enter the courtroom. When at last he came to the door, he was told by the groveling servitor that a fine, fat boy had been born to his wife. Home went Bhuban, to behold the youngster whom he was to name Chitta Ranjan...
Youth. Amid the marble domes and busy streets of Calcutta, Chitta grew to an aesthetic perfection that only a Hindu can attain. He went first to the London Missionary School at Bhowanipore, thence to the Presidency-College at Calcutta. His scholastic attainments must have been very great, for subsequently his speeches showed him to be a man of refined culture and his poetry, mystical and beautiful, revealed the flower of his Oriental soul. It may be assumed that he was also conscious of the sahibs and mem-sahibs that stirred among the teeming millions of India, and he may have...
...such questions were forgotten by the tens of thousands that watched the remains of Chitta Ranjan Das pass through the streets of Calcutta to their last resting place. He was a leader in a movement to democratize India by distributing political power among the villages. It was a task the very nature of which must take generations to accomplish. But he had lived in an epoch when the East was striving in an economic sense to join with the West on equal terms. Vaguely, dimly, confusedly, the masses who had heard of Swaraj understood what the passing of the great...
...Died. Chitta Ranjan Das, 57, Indian Nationalist; at Darjeeling, Bengal, India (see COMMONWEALTH...
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