strength of the School rose from 80 to 300 and the number of teachers doubled. Year after year his boys carried off university scholarships by competition. Nor were his beneficent energies confined to the School. He took a leading part in establishing a Girls’ School, a Technical School, a Temperance Association, a Public Library and many clubs for public improvement in various ways. No philanthropic project, no scheme of reform, but had Raj Narain among its promoters. What immense good he did by reclaiming drunkards will be seen from pp. 79-85. In the field of social reform he was equally bold and active : the 3rd and 4th widow marriages celebrated by Vidyasagar were arranged by Raj Narain between his cousin and his brother and two widows, in defiance of the entreaties of his orthodox relatives and the threats of his neighbours. “The people of my native village cried out, ‘If Raj Narain Bose comes here we shall stone him.’ I replied, ‘That would highly please me. I knew the Bengali race to be apathetic. If they act thus, I shall conclude that on being convinced of the utility of widow marriage they
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