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'''Janaki Nath Ghosal''' was an early Bengali member of the [[Theosophical Society]] who formed the Karwar Theosophical Society.

[[Henry Steel Olcott|Colonel Olcott]] related this account of visiting Mr. Ghosal:

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On the 9th of the month, I went in company with Mrs. Gordon to the garden-house of Babu Janaki Nath Ghosal,
a very influential Bengali gentleman, and admitted into membership his ideally beautiful wife — daughter of the venerable Debendra Nath Tagore, associate-founder, with the late Rajah Rammohan Roy, of the famed [[Brahmo Samaj]]. Mrs. Ghosal, besides being a Peri for beauty, is also one of the brightest intellects of the day, and her children inherit her talents. Along with her, I admitted three other Indian ladies. This sounds simple enough to Western people but they should recollect that since the days of Mussalman supremacy the high-born ladies of Bengal have been seclude ed behind the purdah, or entrance-door-curtain of the Zenana, the Brahmo ladies alone excepted, and the fact of my being admitted so often as
I have, into the family privacy, is a striking proof of the kindly light in which I am regarded by the Hindus.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, "Old Diary Leaves" ''The Theosophist'' (July, 1896), 584-585.</ref>
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Another time,
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Among our friends at Allahabad as much unrest had been created by the [[Coulomb affair|Coulomb-Missionary conspiracy]] against our Society as at any station in India. Certain agents had been very active in sowing distrust and I had my work cut out for me, but I had a good case and all came at right in the end. With Mr. Janaki Ghosal I went to pay my respects
to Swami Madhavdas, an English-speaking ascetic who is much respected.<ref>Henry Steel Olcott, "Old Diary Leaves" ''The Theosophist'' 20.3 (December, 1898), 133.</ref>
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Mr. Ghosal is further mentioned in the account of [[phenomena]] given by [[Mohini Mohun Chatterji]] in the [[Hodgson Report]].<ref>"Evidence of Mr. Mohini M. Chatterjee" ''Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research'' v3 (May-June, 1885), 240.</ref>

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[[Category:Nationality Indian|Ghosal, Jananki Nath]]
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[[Category:Hindus|Ghosal, Jananki Nath]]