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which left an Jdelible impressi! on his mind.191 Later he read a bigger work. Lala Lajpat Rai writes in his autobiography:
At about this time [1881-82] I happened to come across the English speeches of Babu Surendranath Banerjea on Giuseppe Mazzini, which moved me to tears several times as I read it. It made a deep impression on my tender heart and I determined that ali my life I would follow the teachings of Mazzini and serve my nation. I made Mazzini -my Guru [teacher] and so he continues to be this day J.20*
Lajpat Rai also read a few pages of a book dealing with the history of the secret societies of Europe with Rai Mul Raj. This evoked in him a keen desire to read the whole work of Mazzini. With great pain he acquired few books frorn his friend in England. He wrote:
I read Mazzini's biography from cover to cover and I was moved by it far more intensely than I had been several years before by Babu Surendranath Banerjea's speeches about Mazzini. The profound nationalism of the great Italian, his troubles and tribulations, his moral superiority, his broad humanitarian sympathies, enthralled me. I began to translate his * Duties of Man ' into Urdù.2"
Later in 1895, Lala Lajpat Rai wrote the biographies of Mazzini and Garibaldi in Urdù 22) which were later translated into Hindi by K. V. Zaman and were published by National Book Trust, New Delhi, in 1967.a> These books, besides dealing with the biographies of Mazzini and Garibaldi, also contained few letters of Mazzini addressed to some of his friends. In the lengthy preface of the books Lajpat Rai explained the purpose of writing the life of Mazzini:
The aim in writing the book is to present before you the highest example of sacrifice and to show that the patriots follow their paths, perform highest deeds throughout their Hves to their last breath .24>
i9> LALA LAJPAT RAI., Alma Kafka (Autobiography), in Hindi, Lahore; VISHWAMBHAR PRASAD SHARMA, Mabaratbi Lala Lajpat Rai, Bombay, 1920; CHANDRA SHEKHAR PATHAK, Rashtrabhakt Lala Lajpat Rai-, K.K. SHARMA, Life and Times of Lala Lajpat Rai, Ambala, 1974.
2) V.C. JOSCHI (ed.), Lajpat Rai - Autobiographical Writings, Delhi, 1974, p. 81.
2 Ibid., p. 83.
22) B. S. KESVAN, The "National Bibliography of Indian Literature in four vola., 1901-1953, p. 595.
23) K.V. ZAMAN, Lala Lajpat Rai's Mazzini, New Delhi, 1967.
2*) Ibid., pp. 15-16.