SERVANTS OF INDIA SOCEITY-HEMCHANDRA KANUNGOOFFICERS BEHIND BENGAL PARTITION IN 1905--BARINDRAKUMAR GHOSH-

SERVANTS OF INDIA SOCEITY

Servants of India Society was launched by Gopal Krishan Gokhle, the moderate leader of Congress in June 1905. It aimed at working on the principles of self-sacrifice, moral purity and full time national work.
It had great relevance for the time when it was formed. It was formed when the extremist group in the Congress was trying to adopt their ways in the working of the Inadian National Congress. Secondly, it was felt that the Congress should continue to work throughout the year. The Society was formed by the most dominating person of the Congress of that time. It tried to promote the moderate methods in the working of the Congress.

HEMCHANDRA KANUNGO

Hemchandra Kanugo: He was probably the first revolutionary who went abroad to get military and political training. (Sumit Sarkar) He returned in January 1908 and started a bomb factory in Maniktala near Calcutta. Brindrajumar Ghose was also associated with this activity. It was discovery of this factory which went to make the popular Calcutta Bomb Case.

BARINDRAKUMAR GHOSH

Barinderkumar Ghosh:
Barinderkumar Ghosh was the elder brother of Aurobindo Ghosh. He founded Samiti in 1902 in Calcutta. Promotha Mitter and Jatindranath Banerji were other two co-founders of the Samiti. In April 1906, Barindra started Yugantar, a weekly, in the month of April 1906. He was assisted by Bhupendranath Dutta in the editorial board of the weekly.

OFFICERS BEHIND BENGAL PARTITION IN 1905

There were four main British Officers who undertook the partition of Bengal.
They were William Ward, Andrew Fraser, H. H. Risley and Lord Curzon.
William Ward was the Chief Commissioner of Assam who moved the proposal of attaching Chittagong Division, Dacca and Mymensingh to Assam in 1896-97.
Andrew Fraser as the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal repeated the proposal of William Ward in note of March 28, 1903.
Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India of the time, included the note in his minute pm territorial redistribution in india on june 1, 1903.
Home secretary h. H. Risley announced the partition of bengal on december 3, 1903 in his letter to lord curzon.
Relief of bengal and improvement of assam were the two benefits forwarded in the official version on the causes and need of the partition of bengal.
The formal announcement of the partition of bengal was made on july 19, 1905.

NEW LAMPS FOR OLD BY AURBINDO GHOSH

New Lamps for Old by Aurbindo Ghosh.It was a series of essays which appeared between 1893 and 1894. It were written by Aurbindo Ghosh. It mainly criticized the policies of Congress which it termed as full of mendicancy.It adopted the class structure paradigm while criticised the moderate policies of Congress as being followed by Pherozeshah Mehta, Dadabhai Naoroji and Gopal Krishan Gokhle. It was considered as a harbringer of extremist approach in Congress policies and later the revolutionary trends in India in first decade of the twientieth century India.

SHELLS FROM THE SANDS OF BOMBAY BY WACHA

Shells From the Sands of Bombay by Wacha:
Shells From the Sands of Bombay had been written by Dinsha Edulji Wacha. The main title of the book is "Shells from the Sands of Bombay, Being My Recollections of Bombay: 1860-1875. It was published in 1920.