Chapter 47Part Three - Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo

Part Three under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24 October 1906–27 May 1907 In October 1906 a joint-stock company, the Bande Mataram Printers and Publishers, Limited, was established in order to put the finances of the Bande Mataram on a secure basis. (A prospectus announcing the formation of the company is printed as the first piece in Appendix Two.) The company directors appointed Sri Aurobindo and Bipin Chandra Pal as joint edi- tors of the newspaper. Soon afterwards Pal withdrew, leaving Sri Aurobindo in full charge of the Bande Mataram’s editorial policy. No issue of the newspaper appeared between 16 and 23 October 1906. Most issues printed between 24 October and 31 December have been lost. A list of some of the articles in the missing issues is reproduced on pages 199–200.