Rajendra Nath Mookerjee. A Personal Study

Bhagwan Chunder was the second son of Ram Nidhi Mookerjee and the eldest boy Ananda Chandra accordingly exercised the rights and privileges of the head of the family after the death of the father. [...] Rajendra accordingly considered his membeship of the joint family as a thing apart and above his legitimate share in the material belongings of the family ; of spiritual property" he was by right the sole delineator and distributor ; and knowledge of this possession infused in the karts the instinct to devote himself for the good of the whole. [...] 38"X WHEN young Rajendra began to turn his infant feet towards the pathshala the learning of English was unknown to the boys of Bhabla but with the middle class families it had bcome at the time a solemn matter of faith that the young should receive and cultivate 'a knoledge of the language of the rulers. [...] Thousands of small shrines and temples which strike the visitor's eye as he travels leisurely across the peninsula are witness to the illimitable capacity of the faith of India's millions in the unquestioned powers of the supernatural forces on the one hand and on the other furnish abundant proof of the credulous unsophistcated and guileless nature of the mind of the peasantry. [...] Character of the society the moral tone of the men the seclusion of women the immemorial taboos and conventions of family etiquette render it impossible that she should be wooed anct won like her European sisters." In Bengal the influence of tradition has ovelaid the canonical rites of Hindoo marriage with a mass of senseless hocus-pocus and has succeeded without a shadow of scriptural or