(Image above of Michael John Carritt and portrait of the 25 prisoners in the Meerut Conspiracy Case.)
The son of a distinguished lecturer from Oxford University, Carritt’s journey took him “from an ultra naive public schoolboy with a veneer of Oxbridge sophistication, classical scholarship and a mind full of conventional prejudices into a starry-eyed activist in the Indian Independence movement and in particular, its communist-led trade union and peasant committees,” as he writes in his book published in 1987 ‘A Mole in the Crown’.
Filled with personal “anecdotes and descriptions” of his “experience as a Government officer in India during the decade before World War II to review the process by which in the space of few years”, Carritt goes into some fascinating detail about how seeing the injustices of British rule first-hand turned him away from his own country’s colonial government to work actively for the resistance in Bengal led by the Indian communists.
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Tributes have been paid to Sheringham stalwart Audrey Brayne.
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She was one of Norfolk s leading lights for decades, known for her wit, warmth and compassion.
And now tributes have been paid to Audrey Brayne, of Sheringham, who died on April 21, just days before her 94th birthday.
Audrey Brayne, centre, surrounded by her grandchildren on her 80th birthday in 2007.
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Nick Conrad, former BBC radio presenter and one of Mrs Brayne s 15 grandchildren, said: Audrey will be remembered as a cheery, helpful, busily active and really rather unorthodox member of the local Sheringham community.
As India’s North East gets a jolt, an administrator’s memoirs recall the Great Earthquake of 1897
‘The roads yawned open with cracks beneath our feet,’ recounted British civil servant Henry Cotton. Houses destroyed in Shillong the Great Earthquake in 1897. | @GeoSciTweeps via Twitter
“Without a warning and with no premonitory rumble, such as is the ordinary precursor of an earthquake, I heard a clattering on the roof, I felt like swaying of the earth, and the high spirited pony. I was driving dashed off ventre a terre like an arrow from bow. Amid a terrific roar of indescribable elements, we galloped along, missing by a hair’s breadth the wooden railing on the winding drive. The roads yawned open with cracks beneath our feet, the pine trees overhead shook and trembled as though under the influence of a mighty storm, and the pine cones showered an avalanche upon our heads.”
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