Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India November 1938

A devoted disciple of the great Swami Vivekananda in whom the principles laid down by the great Master for the shaping of life and the regulation and governance of the Order were almost incarnate he was the first to occupy the Presidential chair of the Order after the direct disciples of Sri Ramakrishna. [...] Hindus the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians the Buddha of the Buddhists the Jchova of the Jews the Father-in-Heaven of the Christians give strength to us to carry out our noble idea ! The star arose in the East; it travelled steadily towards the West sometimes dimmed and somtimes effulgent till it made a circuit of the world and now it is again rising on the very horizon of the East...a [...] To Michwl M. S. Dutt the representative poet of the literary renaissance Ravana was the real hero of the Ramayana—Rama the man-god of the Hindus being a pigmy by Ravana's side ! It was out of the qestion to disown the spirit of the West. [...] The truth is that our system of public instruction which has awakened the Hindus from the sleep of centuries and quickened the inert masses with some of the noble impulses of a nation is opposed to the traditions unsuited to the requirements and hateful to the religion of the Mussalmans... [...]. There can be no good to the country unless it be the good of the peasants." Fierce controversy raged in Bengal regarding the rights of the Zemindars and the tenants before the passing of the famous Tenancy Act of 1885 which for the first time gave effective protection to the ryots.