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This will be a #Burnol moment for many. I will give you proof that all the history we are taught in schools & colleges in pure junk. They were all written by a certain vested political class. We need to fix it now. This tweet is about who founded the great #CalcuttaUniversity +
The 1st ever letter drafted towards establishing a state of the art University in India in lines of Oxford and Cambridge was drafted than none other than my GGGG grandfather #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee in 1846. @primrose, you wanted it, I got it. The entire proposal! Earlier I ++
(3/n) just published the first page of the handwritten proposal. Here is the entire letter and everything is available at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary if you want evidence. So here's the sequence of events in the run upto establishing one of the best Universities in the world++
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He asserted—perhaps only poetically—that trees could grieve, suffer poverty, steal, assist others, form friendships, and sacrifice themselves for their children
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Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose and Vedantic Science.
"There will soon rise a Temple of Learning where the
teacher cut off from worldly distractions would go on with his ceaseless pursuit after truth, and dying, hand on his work to his disciples".
Nothing would seem laborious in his inquiry; never is he to lose sight of his quest, never is he to let it go obscured by any
terrestrial temptation. For he is the Sanyasin spirit, and India is the only country where so far from there being a conflict between science and religion, knowledge is regarded as religion itself.
In a 1916 address at Benares Hindu University, Bose called attention to the
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