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 Alipore Bomb Case [4]

The case commenced before the Alipore Magistrate’s Court on the 19^th May, 1908 and continued intermittently for a whole year. Mr. Beachcroft, the magistrate, had been with Sri Aurobindo in Cambridge. . . . The case in due course went up to the Sessions Court and the trial commenced there in October 1908.

[Sri Aurobindo indicated that the last sentence should be placed before “Mr. Beachcroft”, changed “magistrate” to “Judge in the Sessions Court”, and wrote:]

The preliminary trial (a very long one) took place before Birley, a young man unknown to Sri Aurobindo. Beachcroft was not “magistrate” but Judge in the Sessions Court.