dispersed by
the police charge. After the breaking up of the Conference he accompanied Bepin
Pal in a tour of East Bengal where enormous meetings were held,– in one district
in spite of the prohibition of the District Magistrate.Sri Aurobindo
Autobiographical Notes
and Other Writings of Historical Interest
Part One. Autobiographical Notes
2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography
Political Life, 1893–1910
The Barisal Conference and the Start of the Yugantar [1]
[At the Barisal Conference (April 1906)]
Sri Aurobindo took part in the Barisal Conference and
was in the front row1 of three
persons in the procession which was dispersed by
the police charge. After the breaking up of the Conference he accompanied Bepin
Pal in a tour of East Bengal where enormous meetings were held,– in one district
in spite of the prohibition of the District Magistrate.
1 See Table 2, page 568. – Ed.