"Desher Katha " written by Sakkaram Ganesh Deuskar was published on 16 Jun 1904. he gave a vivid picture of the decline of Trade and Industry of our country. He took the help of the books on Indian Economy written by Dadabhai Nauraji, Ramesh Chandra Dutta, and William Digby. This book had an important role in the patriotic movement of our National Movement for which the British Government had absconded the book on 1910 after few years.
Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar (1869-1912), a Bihar-born Maharashtrian who spent most of his life in Bengal, excelled as a teacher and writer in both Marathi and Bengali. An active public worker, his blending of rural roots and urban experience, of the language and cultures of two regions and of patriotic skepticism regarding the fruits of colonial rule, made him emblematic of the transformations of Indian society produced by the nationalist movement.Many of us was thinking about acquiring Technical Knowledge for the expansion of Trade and Industry of our country. A meeting, on this agenda, was held on 1st Aug,1904, at Town Hall. Justice Stiphen presided over the meeting for the foundation of "Association for the Advancement of Scientific and Industrial Education". The preliminary work of this organisation was done by the Minning Engineer Ramakanta Das, after he came back from Japan with the training in Technology . Jogesh Chandra Ghosh laid the foundation of this organisation at the proposal of Ramakanta Das. Raja Pyari Mohan Mukhopadhyay presided over the meeting where a powerful committee was formed with Satinath Roy and Aswini Kumar Bandyopadhyay were elected as Joint secretaries and Satyendra Prasanna Sinha as treasurer. Among the other members of the committee there were Jyotyrindranath, Rabindranath etc.
Many Bengalee students were sent to foreign for techninal training by this committee.
Before few days of this meeting, on 22 July, Rabindranth read an essay on "Swadeshi Samaj" held in Minerva Theatre, presided over by Ramesh Chandra Dutta. Swadeshi Movement against division of Bengal was still to be started but the country was ready for such a movement could have been observed opposite view . Rabindranath read the same essay in Curzon Hall on 31 July. The hall became packed up on that day also.
Ultimately, an attempt was taken for the foundation of "Swadeshi Samaj", the constitution of the organisation was also printed. Bhupendranath Dutta submitted an important document about this organisation;
" About 1905, I have written a letter to Rabindranath being inspired by some of my close friends like Barindra etc. We are not ready to work under the flag of National Congress. We want to work under your guidance. At this he called me at his residence at Dwarakanath Street and said,
" Discuss the matter with my nephew, Surendranath..."
Having learnt this Sakkaram Babu, Debabrta Babu, and I went to Surendranath Thakur at his residence at Ballygunge. He inform , Rabi Babu asked me who are those? I told him everything. He replied that he would work through lecture and literature. Sakkaram Babu made a sarcastic reply. " India would not be free by writing poetry. Later on I met him at the Sahitya Parishad accompanying Byomkesh Mustaphi. He was busy with Swadeshi Samaj and replied ' working programme has not yet been prepared'. Rabi Babu called us in a subsequent meeting of the association. I was sent to Bihar for preparing plan of Bhabani Mandir. After coming back I learnt from Annada Kabiraj that in a meeting different persons were expressing diffrent opinion; he asked me about my opinion . I replied, I am not able to participate in the debate, if you give me work , I shall try to comply with that. Rabindranath answered, "I know". That was the end of the relation of co-operation between "Swadeshi Samaj". and the revolutionary organisation.
When Rabindranath was introducing plans and programmes of Swadeshi Samaj in his own place of Zamindary many activist of the ex-Revolutionary joined with him. Anushilan Samity had two programmes ,1. Underground, and the other 2. Open. In 'Bengalee', it was published, "Anushilan Samity -- The annual meeting of the above Samity takes place today." Memoirs of many persons revealed that Rabindranath had connection with such open programme.
This year Sivaji Utsab was delayed. 'Bengalee' wrote on 31 Aug, " The Sivaji celebration takes place at the Town Hall on Saturday, the 3rd proximo with the usual eclar. Some of the best Bengal's Speakers will take place in the proceedings, and a pamphlet of the "Sivaji cult" in Bengali, by Pandit Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar and a half-tone photo of the great Mahratta hero will be distributed free at the meeting. But the ceremony did not held on that day It took place on 16 Sept. under the chairmanship of Surendranath Banerjee. the second volume titled "Sivaji's diksha' of the book "Mahapurush Puja" was distributed to the audience free of cost. In this context Rabindranath wrote his famous poem "Sivaji-Utsab".
