Speeches by Chitta Ranjan Das

In this land of learning and culture was born the great Brahmin prince Silabhadra the teacher of the Chinese traveller Hiant-Chuang; it was the birth-place of Dipankar Srijnan the great teacher of atheism; and here was horn Birabhadra the highest prelate of the Buddhist Temple at Nalanda. [...] The Indian National Congress met at a Special Session at Calcutta in September 1920 to consider the situation arising out of the report of the Hunter Comittee on the Punjab affairs and the dismemberment of"LIFE AND WORK xix Turkey by the Treaty of Sevres with a view to attaiing Swaraj and to securing the redress of the Punjab wrongs and the Khila fat grievances. [...] The exodus of the coolies from the tea gardens of Assam and the strike of the Assam Bengal Railway employees engaged his attention for the greaer part of the early months of 1921. [...] Just as the laws of gravitation existed even before the birth of Newton so the nationality of the Bengalees existed even before the advent of the British people ; only the shock of an alien civilization was needed to make us conscious of this spirit and the shock was supplied from Erope. [...] Let us consider what the import of this union between the East and the West may be ; and for the pupose of argument let us take England as typical of the West and Bengal as typical of the East.