The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 19 1951

It was cruel and sudden for the idisposition which confined him to bed for a few short days never seemed till the very end to be fatal but the fates had decreed that the great and good man who was our founder should not suffer for any length of time and almost in full possession of his senses he took his leave of this world with the serenity he bore so easily and naturally as part of his be [...] He is no longer with us and we know to-day what it is indeed to be orphaned in every sense of the term In a long life he had his share of the buffetings of fate; the death in his prime of a youthful and promising son was a blow that many a strong personality would have found impossible to overcome. [...] He darnath Banerjea often called "father of Indian Nationalism"; one of the daughters was one of the founders of the first dof the great leader was later to be his partmental stores in this country; at every Swadeslti Mela he was an indispensable spouse and lifelong helpmeet but between figure; in the story of India's industrial the two men there grew a very much more than personal tie a lin [...] Whether it was in the Indian Association Coming of a family whose members have or in that later but more glamorous instcontributed most notably to law to litertution the Indian National Congress J. ture to politics and to the social graces of Chaudhuri was soon acclaimed by the people life J. Chaudhuri was proud of the culture as one of Surendranath Banerjea's stauof his people; once [...] Plate' Sir Surendranath Banerjet paffichlarly _during the great days of the Stcadeshi movement in the first decade of the twentieth century; was elected in 1904 a member of the Bengal Legislative Coucil by the municipalities of Rajshahi Divsion; on Government directing the Parttion of Bengal gave up practice at the Bar and threw himself heart and soul into the movement led by Surendran