ABSTRACT

Fond of Jatin Mukherjee and his friends, Suren taught them to think not only in terms of India's freedom but, also of Asian unity. In the midst of the number of patriotic units founded by Shashi Bhushan and Jatin some intellectual activists such as professor Naren Bhattacharya, and Priyobroto Sarkar registered in Calcutta an association determined to put in practice the programme of self-improvement. Insisting on the intellectual superiority of such a war, he attested that to be the way the Japanese, less important and smaller in size than the Russians, proved their superiority. Theoretician of quality, Barin Ghose had written the manifesto of the revolutionary politics in the pages of the Jugantar with the help of local young intellectuals. Among the great Western powers, some ideas had been promoted by a few French thinkers in social science, German economists and Russian revolutionaries; Jatin's immediate goal was to tend the patriotic flame in India.