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ANECDOTES. 27 dencies. In Bengal, however, the Associations took advantage of Mr. Ghose's presence in England, and telegraphed to him, requesting him to join the deputation. He, accordingly, complied with the re- quest of his countrymen, and for several months, de- voted himself to the cause of India, at his own expense, by addressing numerous public meetings in different parts of the United Kingdom. This was the first orga- nized attempt on the part of the people of the different Presidencies to rouse public attention in England, through the agency of their own representatives. And the experiment was eminently successful. CHAPTER VII. ANECDOTES. THE LOKENATHPORE CASE AND HOW HE TOOK IT UP. In 1876, a man named Ramgati Biswas was said to have been murdered in the Lokenathpore Indigo factory. The officials of the Nuddea District came to the extraordinary conclusion, after making a secret enquiry into this matter, that the man had, maliciously, and in order to accuse the factory people of murder, committed suicide, by drowning himself in a tank close to the factory, and the matter was hushed up, as is sometimes the case in this country. A demi-official re- port was sent up to Sir Ashley Eden, the then Lieute- nant-Governor of Bengal, who with some reluctance, accepted the report, and the local authorities directed the prosecution of two men named Ram Gati Kahar, and Troyluckya Nath Biswas who had deposed before the Magistrate, that Mr. Glascott, the Manager of the factory had detained the man shortly before his death. The biographer took compassion upon these poor men and requested his friends Babu Okhoy Kumar