LIFE FROM 1835 TO 1846
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| Subjects | Leading Speakers |
| 1. Reform, civil and social, among educated natives | K. M. Banerji. |
| 2. Topographical and statistical survey of Bankura | Hara Chandra Ghosh. |
| 3. Condition of Hindu women | Mahes Chandra Deb. |
| 4. Brief outline of the history of Hindustan | Govinda Chandra Sen. |
| 5. Descriptive notices of Chittagong | Govinda Chandra Baisak. |
| 6. State of Hindustan under the Hindus | Peari Chand Mitra. |
| 7. Descriptive notices of Tipperah | Govinda Chandra Baisak. |
| 8. The physiology of dissection | Prasanna Kumar Mitra. |
When young, we now and then heard our seniors referring to the “Chakravartti faction,” but did not understand its meaning. But knowledge increases with years, and we now know the meaning and origin of the designation. Captain D. L. Richardson was present at one of the meetings of “The Society for the Acquisition of General Knowledge,” in which Dakhinaranjan was the chief speaker. The Englishman was a Tory to the back-bone; and the Liberal sentiments expressed by the speaker offended him much. He went so far as peremptorily to order silence, and then and there to nickname the association as the “Chakravartti faction,” or a faction led by
