Nowadays, by means of the grant-in-aid system in many villages, sleek-haired, song-singing, harmless Master Babus appear; but at that time such a being as a Master Babu was scarcely to be seen.

Consequently, Tara Charan appeared as one of the village gods; especially as it was known in the bazaar that he had read the _Citizen of the World_, the _Spectator_, and three books of _Euclid_.

On account of these gifts he was received into the _Brahmo Samaj_ of Debendra Babu, the zemindar of Debipur, and reckoned as one of that Babu's retinue.
Tara Charan wrote many essays on widow-marriage, on the education of women, and against idol-worship; read them weekly in the _Samaj_, and delivered many discourses beginning with "Oh, most merciful God!" Some of these he took from the _Tattwa Bodhini_,[3] and some he caused to be written for him by the school _pandit_.

He was forever preaching: "Abandon idol-worship, give choice in marriage, give women education; why do you keep them shut up in a cage?
let women come out." There was a special cause for this liberality on the subject of women, inasmuch as in his own house there was no woman.

Up to this time he had not married.