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Room Conversation with Lord Brockway \u2013 July 23, 1973, London:
\nLord Brockway: And my childhood was spent at Berhampur (Brahmapur).
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Berhampur?
\nLord Brockway: Yes.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: I see.
\nLord Brockway: My parents were missionaries there.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Hm. I was also a student of missionary college, Scottish Churches\u2019 College.
\nLord Brockway: Oh yes.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Yes. We had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman.
\nLord Brockway: Yes, yes. Was that in Calcutta?
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Yes, in Calcutta. And Lord Rolandson, Zetland, Marquis of Zetland. He was governor of Bengal. So he\u2019s also a Scotsman.
\nLord Brockway: Yes.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: So he came to our college in our, when we were young men, second-year student. All our professors, mostly they were Scotsmen, and there was one English professor, Mister Warren. All other professors, they were Scotsmen, Mr. Keye, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Scrimgeour in this way.
\nLord Brockway: Those are Scottish names.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Yes, Scottish names. So you remained only four years after your birth.
\nLord Brockway: That is true. But I have quite clear memories, especially of Berhampur, of our house, of playing with Indian children under a tree\u2026
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Oh.
\nInterviews with Macmillan and various English Reporters \u2013 September 12, 1973, London:
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Sanskrit compulsory and additional there was Sanskrit. So I took both, compulsory and additional.
\nProf. Gombrich: I see.
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Up to my I.A., I regularly studied Sanskrit, and in my B. A., I gave up Sanskrit. I read history. (laughs) No. Not in B.A. B.A., my combination was economics and philosophy. In I.A. I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit.
\nProf. Gombrich: That was at Calcutta University?
\nPrabhup\u0101da: Yes. Calcutta University, Scottish Churches\u2019 College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Room Conversation with Lord Brockway – July 23, 1973, London:
\nLord Brockway: And my childhood was spent at Berhampur (Brahmapur).
\nPrabhupāda: Berhampur?
\nLord Brockway: Yes.
\nPrabhupāda: I see.
\nLord Brockway: My parents were missionaries there.
\nPrabhupāda: Hm. I was also a student of missionary college, Scottish Churches’ College.
\nLord Brockway: Oh yes.
\nPrabhupāda: Yes. We had very good professors. W. S. Urquhart, Dr. W.S. Urquhart, he was a Scotsman.
\nLord Brockway: Yes, yes. Was that in Calcutta?
\nPrabhupāda: Yes, in Calcutta. And Lord Rolandson, Zetland, Marquis of Zetland. He was governor of Bengal. So he’s also a Scotsman.
\nLord Brockway: Yes.
\nPrabhupāda: So he came to our college in our, when we were young men, second-year student. All our professors, mostly they were Scotsmen, and there was one English professor, Mister Warren. All other professors, they were Scotsmen, Mr. Keye, Mr. Cameron, Mr. Scrimgeour in this way.
\nLord Brockway: Those are Scottish names.
\nPrabhupāda: Yes, Scottish names. So you remained only four years after your birth.
\nLord Brockway: That is true. But I have quite clear memories, especially of Berhampur, of our house, of playing with Indian children under a tree…
\nPrabhupāda: Oh.
\nInterviews with Macmillan and various English Reporters – September 12, 1973, London:
\nPrabhupāda: Sanskrit compulsory and additional there was Sanskrit. So I took both, compulsory and additional.
\nProf. Gombrich: I see.
\nPrabhupāda: Up to my I.A., I regularly studied Sanskrit, and in my B. A., I gave up Sanskrit. I read history. (laughs) No. Not in B.A. B.A., my combination was economics and philosophy. In I.A. I was intermediate, I.A. I had history and Sanskrit.
\nProf. Gombrich: That was at Calcutta University?
\nPrabhupāda: Yes. Calcutta University, Scottish Churches’ College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-61863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61864,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61863\/revisions\/61864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}