Page:The Message and Ministrations of Dewan Bahadur R. Venkata Ratnam, volume 1.djvu/22

 its literature such as to challenge the admiration of many a learned Musalman. He read at the Zillah High School in Banda (U. P.) during the Head-mastership of Babu Dinanath Banerji with Babu Gangadhara Mukherji for the First Assistant. From the former, expressions of kind commendation, would be received from time to time in later life. And with the latter is associated, as will presently be seen, a lasting memory sacred through life. From Banda he proceeded to Hyderabad (Deccan) while in the Matriculation class, and thereby passed from the hands of two Bengalee teachers into those of a third, the well-known Dr. Aghornath Chattopadhyaya, then Head-master of the Nizam’s Government High School. ‘An ineffectual and fruitless l½ months’ there; and the young student shifted to St. George’s Grammar School, Chudderghaut, then under an able Head-master, Mr. W. A. Home, to whom was due the first insight into a correct study of English.

A staunch Vaishnava devotee of the orthodox type like the bulk of the followers of his