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A. Roy Chowdhury

The building was once owned by Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick, at Wellington Square, Kolkata. The edifice is a heritage structure and is now the property of Calcutta University. It is said that Sri Aurobindo stayed in this house, at the invitation of the Raja in the first decade of the 20th Century when Bengal revolutionaries were doing all they could to oppose British rule in India, particularly in the wake of the Partition of Bengal in 1905.

Raja Subodh Mullick himself was engaged in the same sort of political work, one result of which was his incarceration at the hands of the British for unwanted political activity. Calcutta University has been involved in litigation involving the building which, reportedly, has swung its way recently. —

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