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[ »47 } MANOMOHAN GHOSH. Manomohan Ghosh, the lawyer and patriot, was a native of Bairaldi in Vikrampur, in the district of Dacca, but he latterly made Krishnanagar his home. He was born in 1844. His father, Ramlochan Ghosh, was a Subordinate Judge in Lord Auckland's time, and was a friend of Raja Rammohan Ray. Manomohan inherited his father's reformed views and early joined the band of social reformers in Bengal. He was one of the pioneers of the movement for sending young Indians to England for completing their education. Having passed the Entrance Examination and studied for some time in the Calcutta Presidency College, he accom- panied Babu«Satyendra Nath Thakur to England to compete for the Civil Service. Manomohan, however, was not so fortunate as Satyendra t^ath, who became the first Indian Civilian. He failed to pass the Civil Service Examination, and returned to India as a Barrister. He had to struggle for some time in his profession. He got no help from his brother Barristers, who seem to have considered his entrance into the profession as an intrusion. But Manomohan's genius soon showed itself. A famous case in which he defended the accused against the Government and in which eminent Anglo-Indian barristers were his opponents, brought out to the full his great legal knowledge and his powers of reasoning. He soon rose to the highest rank in the profession. But Mano- mohan was not destined only for making money. His heart burned with true patriotism and with sympathy for the poor and the oppressed. Whenever he found a poor man oppress- ed by the Police or by influential enemies, he stood up for him, whether he was paid for his labours or not. Many a helpless person was thus saved by him from undeserved death or imprisonment Students were objects of special sympathy to