6 College Square, Calcutta
the house of Kristo Kumar Mitter,
where Sri Aurobindo lived from May
1909 till his leaving of Calcutta in February 1910.
Kristo Kumar Mitter was Sri
Aurobindo’s maternal uncle, one of nine nationalists who were deported
from Bengal in December 1908. House, where lived his family, also served
as the office and plant of the Bengali journal “Sanjivani”, edited by
Krishna Kumar. From police report: “Aurobindo spends most of his day in
study of religious books and in writing. He is said to be accessible to
almost anyone, known or unknown, who goes to call on him. His principal
associates, whom he visits and is visited by are Babu Ramananda
Chatterji, Gispati Kabyatirtha, Lalit Mohan Das, Prasanna Kumar Bose,
Jitendra Nath Banerji, Gyan Chunder Roy; C.R. Das, Barrister-at-law; B.K.
Das, Barrister-at-law; B.C. Chatterji, Barrister-at-law; S.N. Halder,
Barrister-at-law; and P. Mitter.”
