The Dawn Society was established in July 1902 in

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under the stewardship of Indian educationalist

Satish Chandra Mukherjee Satish Chandra Mukherjee (5 June 1865 – 18 April 1948) was a pioneer in establishing a system of national education in India, along with Sri Aurobindo. The positivist background Satish Chandra was born at Banipur in Hooghly district of pre ...

. The organisation arose in response to agitation against the report of the Indian Universities Commission 1902 which was seen to be align more power within the Colonial settlers. At a time of rising nationalism in India, the ''Dawn Society'', through its magazine of the same name, sought to promote Indian views, achievements, heritage and success. The members of the society included noted intellectuals and intelligentsia of Bengal of the time, including

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...

Aurobindo Ghosh Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yogi, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers such as ''Vande Mataram''. He joined the ...

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, Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick,

Radha Kumud Mukherjee Radha Kumud Mukherjee (also spelled Radhakumud or Radha Kumud Mookerji and also known as Radha Kumud Mukhopadhyaya; 25 January 1884 – 9 September 1963) was an Indian historian and a noted Indian nationalist during the period of British colon ...

and

Brajendra Kishore Roychowdhury Brajendra Kishore Roy Chowdhury (1874 AD - 1957 AD; Bengali Year: 1281-1364 (1281-1364 Bengali Year http://www.thedailystar.net/gouripur-house-needs-urgent-attention-35277)) was a patron of Indian classical music and national education of the Ind ...

and others. The work of the society saw the founding of the National Council for Education in 1905.

References

South Asia Archive on Dawn magazine and Dawn society
* Land of Two Rivers: A History of Bengal from the Mahabharata to Mujib. Nitish K. Sengupta. 2011. Penguin Books India. p303 Indian independence movement Educational organisations based in India 20th century in Kolkata Academic institutions associated with the Bengal Renaissance History of education in India 1902 establishments in India {{India-org-stub