... Thus it was that Bijaykumar Bhattacharya, Jyotishchandra Roy, and Upendranath Das came to the village of Nabagram (literally 'new village'), some 17 kilometres south of the town of Burdwan, in 1935, and set up a school called Vidyalaya, where they hoped to put into practice the educational ideas and ideals of the charismatic spokesperson of the new language of non-violent struggle whom they had accepted as their political and spiritual guru - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, still not universally anointed as a mahatma.

"This was two years before the famed Wardha Educational Conference, where Gandhi laid out, in some detail, his scheme of a new kind of practical national education that he called nai talim (lit. 'new educationraining') or buniyadi siksha ('basic education')."

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