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1 MY BOYHOOD AND EARLY DAYS 1
My parentage—early influences—school and college life—evils of child-marriage—the Brahmo-Samaj movement; Keshub Chunder Sen—the temperance movement; Peary Churn Sircar—re-marriage of Hindu widows; Pundit Iswar Chinder Vidyasagar
2 MY FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND 9
The voyage; obstacles and prejudices—successful in the Civil Service Examination, 1869 — disqualified; the Commissioners’ mistake —public resentment in India—lawsuit and my re-instatement—my father’s death, 1870—Sripad Babaji Thakur, Romesh Chunder Dutt, and Rehari Lal Gupta—my English tutors
3 MY HOME-COMING AND OFFICIAL CAREER, 1871–1874 20
London to Brindisi—taken for German spies at Versailles—Calcutta again: socially ostracized by orthodox Brahmins—work as Assistant Magistrate at Sylhet—racial prejudices—the circumstances of my dismissal from the Service
4 1875–1882 29
My second visit to England—exclusion from the English Bar—return to India, 1875—educational work; my joy in it—Mr. A. M. Bose
5 THE INDIAN ASSOCIATION 37
Need for a political Association to represent educated middle classes—inaugurated, July 1876—Mazzini’s influence—the Civil Service agitation, 1877—my tour in North India—Sirdar Dayal Singh Majeetia and the Tribune—tour in Western India, 1878–79; meeting with Mr. Ranade—the first Indian Deputation to England; Mr. Lalmohan Ghose—the Maharani Swarnamoyee, ‘Lady Bountiful of Cossimbazar’—success of the Deputation
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