Young India : an interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within . Arabinda Ghosh THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT 173 passed the Indian Civil Service examinations withcredit, but failed in the test for did a failure prove more a blessing than inhis case. He was in the service of His Highness, the Maha-raja of Baroda,5 drawing a salary of about 500pounds sterling, when his countrys call came to listened to it readily, gave up his post and agreedto be the principal of the National College on tenpounds a month. We are told by one who workedwith him for some
Young India : an interpretation and a history of the nationalist movement from within . Arabinda Ghosh THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT 173 passed the Indian Civil Service examinations withcredit, but failed in the test for did a failure prove more a blessing than inhis case. He was in the service of His Highness, the Maha-raja of Baroda,5 drawing a salary of about 500pounds sterling, when his countrys call came to listened to it readily, gave up his post and agreedto be the principal of the National College on tenpounds a month. We are told by one who workedwith him for some time that he did not support the declaration of the National Council of Education about their non-political attitude. He could not ap-preciate this needless dread, as they thought, ofoffending official susceptibilities. He, however, ac-cepted the verdict of the majority and began hiswork. But his position as the nominal head ofthe National College, controlled by men who dif-fered from him in their political views and opinions,became almost from the very beginning was
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