On 22nd April, after dinner came to see Rabindranath Tagore.
Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933), was a Romanian-French writer.
Sardar Singh Rewabhai Rana (1878–1957), often abbreviated 'S.R. Rana', was an Indian political activist, founding member of the Paris Indian Society and the vice-president of the Indian Home Rule Society.
Singh Rewabhai Rana was born to a high-caste Rajput family in the Kathiawar district, and was a claimant to the throne of the princely state of Limbdi, hence also Rana's title of 'Sardar'. Rana was educated at Elphinstone College, graduating with a baccalaureate from Bombay University in 1898.
On 23rd April, Rabindranath had his lunch with Singh Rewabhai Rana . At his young age he was acquainted with Shyamji Krishna varma (Shyamji Krishnavarma (Shyamji Krishna Nakhua) (1857–1930) was an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London) and Madam Cama (Bhikaiji Rustom Cama (24 September 1861 – 13 August 1936) was a prominent figure in the Indian independence movement.) and joined the revolutionary freedom movement of India but having been unsuccessful he began a business of jewllery and earned a lot of money.He was introduced with Rabindranath when he came to Paris in 1920.In that year on 9th Oct he addressed him Worshipful Guru and wrote to him that he wanted to bear the expenditure of more than one lac of German Mark to establish a library of books of Germany;
" My darling son [Ranajit] left me twenty thousand francs...It was my sincere desire to devote this sum to the cause of our motherland and some providential divinity ought me to you and I at once decided to make the offering to you...You must have your Dakshina "
Sardar Singh Rewabhai Rana (1878–1957), often abbreviated 'S.R. Rana', was an Indian political activist, founding member of the Paris Indian Society and the vice-president of the Indian Home Rule Society.
On 23rd April, Rabindranath had his lunch with Singh Rewabhai Rana . At his young age he was acquainted with Shyamji Krishna varma (Shyamji Krishnavarma (Shyamji Krishna Nakhua) (1857–1930) was an Indian revolutionary, lawyer and journalist who founded the Indian Home Rule Society, India House and The Indian Sociologist in London) and Madam Cama (Bhikaiji Rustom Cama (24 September 1861 – 13 August 1936) was a prominent figure in the Indian independence movement.) and joined the revolutionary freedom movement of India but having been unsuccessful he began a business of jewllery and earned a lot of money.He was introduced with Rabindranath when he came to Paris in 1920.In that year on 9th Oct he addressed him Worshipful Guru and wrote to him that he wanted to bear the expenditure of more than one lac of German Mark to establish a library of books of Germany;
" My darling son [Ranajit] left me twenty thousand francs...It was my sincere desire to devote this sum to the cause of our motherland and some providential divinity ought me to you and I at once decided to make the offering to you...You must have your Dakshina "At this time he expressed his desire to take the resposibility of an Indian girl for bringing her up to Rabindranath. Rabindranath talked with him about edest daughter of Ajit Kumar Chakraborty (ex-teacher of Santinikeran) to minimise the burden of the widow Labanya.
Apart from this, some Indian businessmen in France promised to contribute to Viswa Bharati.
Prof. Benoy Kumar Sarkar wrote;
" Singh Rewabhai Rana took the responsibility of donating books and magazines relating to India in German languge . He was a man of Kthiyawar."
In the evening Rabindranath met with a French philosopher.
