A Biographical Sketch of David Hare

Bom in a village in Scotland in the year 1775, David Hare was brought up as a watch-maker and in the year 1800, at the agri of twentyfive, he came down to Calcutta. Watch-making was undoubtedly his business, but he was never engrossed in it. The study of the native society of Calcutta to which Hare had free access, was his main p re-occupation-He found a great friend in Rammohan Roy, was intimately associated with his circle and his famous "Atmiya Sabha," founded in 1815. From the progressive movements launched under the supreme leadership of Rammohan Roy—against the hoary superstitions, the monstrous idolatry, the most inhuman custom of the Suttee rite and in favour of the dissemination of the Western system of scientiiic education—David Hare drew his inspirations and discovered the mission of his life. In the crucible of these mighty socio-cultural movements, watch-maker David Hare was moulded into an ardent educationist and a veteran social reformer. His interest shifted from the intricate mechanism of watch to far more intricate mi of society, from the study of the mechanic; to the stjdy Of the dynamics of 'Humanity.'