226 LIFE AND WORK OF SIR JAGADIS C. BOSE 



college was built, it was only on the eve of his retirement, 

 and hence too late for the continuation of his researches. 

 All these disappointments only made Bose more resolved to 

 carry out his own project ; so that he worked with tireless 

 energy, during the two years subsequent to his retirement, 

 at the final planning, building and organisation of the 

 Research Institute. His own researches were not, however, 

 interrupted, for he continued to carry them out at his 

 summer home at Darjiling and at Sijberia on the Ganges, 

 some twenty miles down stream from Calcutta, with its 

 pleasant little bungalow and tree-bordered grounds quietly 

 and picturesquely situated at the junction of a minor 

 stream with the great river. But such centres of personal 

 activity made all the more imperative the creation of the 

 long-dreamed- of Research Institute. 



This he at length opened, on his fifty-ninth birthday, 

 November 30, 1917, in commemoration and repetition of 

 his vow to research twenty-three years before. Though 

 his oft-repeated journeys to England and other countries 

 of the West had made Bose a citizen of the world in an 

 unusual degree, yet his fundamental attitude to life and 

 knowledge was primarily Indian, with its ideality which 

 embraced the service of humanity. His object and outlook 

 will be best understood from the inaugural address, repro- 

 duced in the next chapter. 



