[75] Societies, Associations and Gymnasiums.
[76] A leader universally respected and loved by all classes of people throughout India. [See frontispiece.]
[77] See Mr. H. W. Nevinson’s New Spirit in India, p. 295; also pp. 133, 233, etc.; see also Mr. J. Ramsay Macdonald’s Awakening of India.
[78] For an account of this split see H. W. Nevinson’s New Spirit in India, Chap. XIII.
[79] A reward of one hundred thousand Rupees equal to 33,000 dollars was offered for information leading to the arrest of the culprit or culprits.
[80] Name of a religious sect. See Pratts’ India and Its Faiths, p. 13.
[81] The Spirit of Indian Nationalism, by Mr. B. C. Pal. p. 36.
[82] A great Bengalee writer of fiction who composed the well-known nationalist song, “Bande Mataram” or Hail Motherland.
[83] Or the foreign exploiters.
[84] It was in the first half of the year 1908 that the first bomb was thrown at Muzaffarpur, Behar. It was meant for a Magistrate who had been passing sentences of whipping on nationalist youths, but by mistake it struck a quite innocent person. The investigation of this case resulted in the discovery of a big conspiracy. The trial of this conspiracy is known by the name “Maniktolah Bomb Case” from the fact that the headquarters of this conspiracy were alleged to have been in the Maniktolah gardens, Calcutta. One of the conspirators Narendra Nath Gossain became an approver. After the case had been committed for trial before the Sessions Court and when the approver and the accused were both lodged in jail at Alipore, one of the leaders of the conspiracy shot the approver dead with a rifle which had been smuggled into the jail premises by their friends.