Editing Manmohan Ghose (section)

==Background==
Manmohan Ghose was born the son of Dr. Krishna Dhan Ghose by his wife, Swarnalata Devi Ghose (''[[née]]'' Basu). His ancestral village was in Konnagar, present day [[Hooghly district|Hooghly]] district.<ref name = "Bandyopadhyay6">Bandyopadhyay, Amritalal, ''Rishi Aurobindo'', 1964, Biswas Publishing House, p 6</ref> His family was [[bengali Kayastha ]],and were among the early adopters of English education. Consequently, they had acquired affluence and the prestige of holding government jobs. Manmohan's father, Krishna Dhun Ghose, was a doctor in the government service, who served as Assistant Surgeon of [[Rangpur District|Rangpur]] in Bengal. Formerly a member of the [[Brahmo Samaj]] religious reform movement, he had become enamoured with the then-new idea of [[evolution]] while pursuing medical studies in Britain.{{efn|Aurobindo described his father as a "tremendous atheist" but Thakur calls him an agnostic and Heehs believes that he followed his own coda.{{sfnp|Heehs|2008|pp=3–7, 10|ps=}}{{sfnp|Thakur|2004|p=3|ps=}}}} Manmohan's mother, Swarnalata Devi, was the daughter of [[Rajnarayan Bose|Shri Rajnarayan Bose]], a leading figure in the Brahmo Samaj. He was the best friend of Laurence Binyon. Manmohan was the second of siblings. The eldest was his brother, Benoybhusan Ghose, then Manmohan himself, then his brother [[Sri Aurobindo]] (the famous revolutionary and ascetic) followed by his only sister Sarojini, and last of all was another brother, [[Barindra Kumar Ghosh|Barindrakumar]] (usually referred to as Barin).{{sfnp|Heehs|2008|pp=3–7, 10|ps=}}{{sfnp|Thakur|2004|p=3|ps=}}