So গ্ৰাম্য উপাখ্যান । SA ALASS S LSSSaSMALAL LqLLqSLMMASLLALA LqLSLLALASSMLMLMLMALLLLLSAAAL MLALA AAMMeAMLL LAMeSMMAM LALALAA LSL AAAA LLLLLLLSM L AAA LALSM LLLLLL بھی سمگ LLeS ALL LAS Ae0 LLS LLLe S AAA AALe SLLSL SLSAS e0 eS A S SE Ak E SA S MeSLeS LTSLS eeee LES Ae eeeeSLeSL TkeS SkS ASAeS LLS kAe eL LSeLeLeLS S LAES HeS SAAA AeAS S LLLL S ness P For this as early as 1861 he proposed the formation of a “Society for the Promotion of National Feeling among the Educated Natives of Bengal' and a II indu Mela or National Exhibiton, which were long afterwards realised by his friend Navagopal Mitra (pp. 83, II o, 2o8, and 2 I 5). For this he delivered his famous lecture on the Superiority of Hinduism, which galvanised the Indian society of the day and excited ludicrous consternation and anger in Lal Behari De and other dreamers of the vain dream of nirvana in complete Anglicisation. (Pp. 86-92). For this, Brahmo as he was, he advocated a Universal Hindu League, for uniting all parts of India on the platform common to all sects. (See his pamphlet Old Hindu's Hope, 1889). For this he insisted on the use of pure Bengali, and by a fine of one pice for every English word used penalised that mixture of Bengali and English in our familiar conversation of
- In this matter we may not go the entire length of our hero's honest enthusiasm. A verbal purist of an earlier generation might have fined Raj Narain for the many Arabic words used in his autobiography
