Word: mukerji
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Story. A Hindu of Brahmin parentage, born and brought up in a small village near Calcutta, Mukerji, in Caste (the first section), is able to give a most interesting and obviously veracious account of a certain section of Indian life-something of which even the cleverest of Occidental writers have been able to describe no more than the externals. " An intricate and age-old pattern of life, from sudden sunrise through fervid noon to the heavy fall of night and silence...
...mother was unlettered but deeply spiritual-fantastically wise. His father, " a kind of god to us," practised law, but was also a skilled musician. " During his vacations we used to go in a cart drawn by bullocks from the court of one Rajah to another, where he sang." Young Mukerji himself was initiated (at the age of 14) as a Brahmin priest and passed through the requisite two years of wandering pilgrimage, begging his way through India, seeking the knowledge of God-a pilgrimage most fascinatingly described. Later, he gave up his priesthood, to become fervently interested in the movement...