Sris Chandra Basu

He passed his BA in 1881 and gave a lecture on evolution at the Arya Samaj which was the first introduction to the subject in Hindi and was a sensation in Lahore at the time, with an essay in the Arya of Lahore (founded by Ratan Chand Bary in 1882) carrying his paper on Theory of Evolution from an Aryan point of view (1882) which was noticed by Madame Blavatsky in her note in The Theosophist (March, 1882).

[4] On 3 April 1883 at the Siksha Sabha Hall, Rai Bishan Lal, a Theosophist from Bombay was to demonstrate occult phenomena.

Also present was John Campbell Oman and Lal's performance was described as irresponsible, leading to the society being disenfranchised by Colonel Olcott who called the members "Shylocks".

[7] In 1883 Basu went to Calcutta where he was married in the last week of May to the daughter of Babu Ambika Charan Ghosh at a time when protests against the Ilbert Bill and the arrest of Surendra Nath Banerji had rocked the city.

Following the Panjdeh incident in 1885, Meerut was carefully monitored by the Duke of Connaught posted as Commandant, fearing a repetition of the 1857 uprising.

Here he had a habit of taking shorthand notes that was noticed by the Acting Chief Justice Straight who then appointed him as judgement-writer of the Court to replace Arthur Strachey.

[11] It was in Allahabad that he took an interest in the Mitakshara School of Hindu Law and began to study Panini's grammar in order to accurately understand the original sources in Sanskrit.