837.Surendra Mohan Ghosh (22.4.1893—7.9.1976)

Surendra Mohan Ghosh (22.4.1893—7.9.1976) was an active member of the Jugantar, the noted revolutionary organization from 1907 to 1938. He joined the Indian National Congress in 1920 and also played a pivotal role in the Swaraj Party founded by Chittaranjan Das. As a political worker he had spent a total number of twenty-three years in prison. He was a leader in Calcutta Congress in 1928.He stood in support of Subhas Chandra Bose in the election of Congress President against Jatindramohan Sengupta.From in 1939. In 1939 he became president of the Bengal Provincial Congress Committee (adhoc). In 1946 he became a member of the Constituent Assembly which was charged with drafting India’s constitution. In 1952 he was elected to the Lok Sabha. In 1956 and 1962 he was elected as the member of the Raj Sabha. From 1962 to 1967 he was the Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Parliament. He had close contact with the  Revolutionary Jatindranath Bandyopadhyay and Dr. Jadugopal Mukhopadhyay. Revolutionary surya Sen and Subhas Chandra Bose was his co-prisoner. His associate of revolution was Maharaja Trailakyanath Chakrabarty. 

Surendra Mohan Ghosh was also a devoted follower of Sri Aurobindo. During the 1940s, he had a number of private meetings with Sri Aurobindo, during which the two spoke of political and yogic matters.

Two talks of Surendra Mohan Ghosh on Sri Aurobindo which he had given to the students of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education have been published in the online forum of Overman Foundation. We are immensely thankful to Shri Narayan Bhatt, archivist at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives and Research Department, Pondicherry, for sharing these two priceless talks with us.