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the only gift that the Sirdar gave to the Punjab. He gave away all he had for the benefit of his country; and the Dayal Singh College is an enduring monument of one of the worthiest sons of the Punjab, whose carly death all India mourns in common with the province of his birth.
Prominently associated with Sirdar Dayal Singh Majeetia in the public work to which I have referred, were Dr. Surajball, Pundit Ramnarain, and last but not least, Babu Kali Prosanna Roy. Dr. Surajball was a graduate of Oxford and rose to a high position in the service of the Kashmir State; Pundit Ramnarain was an able lawyer. He was the first Indian who officiated as a judge of the Punjab Chief Court, and if he had been spared he would have been confirmed in that appointment. Kali Prosanna Roy was a brilliant lawyer who, after qualifying himself for the Bar, had taken up his residence in Lahore to practise his profession. As an advocate he hardly had an equal at the Lahore Bar. But he was not a mere lawyer; he was an agreeable companion, and an earnest Indian patriot. He took a prominent part in all public movements; and, when failing health compelled him to retire to his native village in Bengal, he endowed it with works of public utility. The name of such a man should be rescued from oblivion. But | am afraid, in this country, public services are often readily forgotten; for the prevailing temper is one of criticism and not of service, or of admiration for service.
Leaving Lahore, I visited Amritsar, Meerut, Allahabad, Delhi, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Aligarh, and Benares. At all these places crowded public meetings were held, at which the Calcutta Resolutions and the Civil Service Memorial were adopted, and, wherever practicable, political organizations were formed to act in concert with the Indian Association of Calcutta. Such Associations were formed at Lahore, Meerut, Allahabad, Cawnpore and Lucknow. Thus a network of organizations was started, and the foundations were well and truly laid, as subsequent events fully proved, for united and concerted action among our representative men, over an area extending from Calcutta to Lahore. The movement with all its potentialities was to receive a still further expansion when, in the following year, upon the selfsame errand, I visited Madras and Bombay and some of the towns in the western presidency.
My tour through Northern India, great as was its political potentialities, was to me a source of unmixed personal pleasure and instruction. I came in contact with all the leaders of thought