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Gutermuth, on the ground that he had taken up a conflicting position as president of the National Rifle Association. In later years, he continued to write about conservation issues particularly in Bangalore. In one issue, the government of Karnataka handed over lakes particularly Hebbal Lake within the city to private hoteliers and water-based entertainment companies. This was opposed by many citizens as being contradictory to the role of government in public welfare.
Zafar Futehally held the view that private enterprise could be conservation and welfare-oriented, a view which did not receive widespread support. Futehally wrote numerous popular articles in the media. One of his early publications on a Paradise Flycatcher inspired the Indian poet Nissim Ezekiel to write a poem about it.
The articles were selected for readability rather than dry scientific communication although many scientific observations were made in its pages. He also edited and published an anthology of writings by Indian birdwatchers, "India through its birds", which was published in In , his memoirs were posthumously published as a book, The Song of the Magpie Robin.
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Economic and Political Weekly. Newsletter for Ornithologists 1 4: Archived from the original PDF on 26 June The Song of the Magpie Robin". Retrieved from " https: Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. This page was last edited on 23 October , at His father's elder brother was Badruddin Tyabji , first Infian to become a Barrister later on a judge of the Bombay High Court and an early, loyalist president of the Indian National Congress. He was educated in England, where he lived for eleven years. He returned, a cultivated Brown Sahib, very loyal to the Raj, devoted to western ways, and with a contempt for the customs and traditions of India.
As his nephew, the ornithologist Salim Ali , says in his autobiography,. Abbas Tyabji , though a moderate nationalist at heart, would stand no adverse criticism of the British as a people, or of the Raj, and even a mildly disparaging remark about the King-Emperor or the royal family was anathema to him.
If he had any strong sentiments about Swadeshi , he certainly didn't show it by precept or example.
This being so, he naturally disagreed vehemently with Gandhiji and his methods of political mass agitation. In other respects, his moderate but simmering nationalism and his absolute integrity and fairness as a judge were widely recognized and lauded, even by leftist Congressmen and anti-British extremists.
As an England-educated barrister, Tyabji landed a job as judge in the court of Baroda State as a matter of course. With a generous salary added to his sizable family inheritance, and the respectability of a high-government appointment, the family was ensconced in the higher echelons of elite, westernized society, as compradors of the British Raj.
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For the entirety of his career, Tyabji remained a staunch loyalist of the Raj. He raised his children in a westernized manner, sending his children to England for higher education, and In time, he rose in the judiciary to become Chief Justice of the High Court of Baroda State and retired. He was an early proponent of women's rights, supporting women's education and social reform. He broke with the prevailing custom of the times by disregarding purdah restrictions and sending his daughters to school.
He cross-examined hundreds of eyewitnesses and victims of the atrocities committed by Reginald Dyer , reacting with "nausea and revulsion.
Leaving his Western style aristocratic life behind, he adopted many of the symbols of the Gandhi movement, burning his English clothes and spinning and wearing khadi. He continued this new lifestyle well past the age of seventy, including several years in British jails. Tyabji's daughter, Sohaila, remembered loading a bullock cart with the family's foreign garments, onto which were loaded all her mother's "best Irish linen, bedspreads, table covers As their first act of civil disobedience, or satyagraha , Mahatma Gandhi chose a nationwide non-violent protest against the British salt tax.
Congress officials were convinced that Gandhi would quickly be arrested, and chose Tyabji as Gandhi's immediate successor to lead the Salt Satyagraha in case of Gandhi's arrest. On 7 May Tyabji launched the Dharasana Satyagraha , addressing a meeting of the satyagrahis, and beginning the march with Gandhi's wife Kasturba at his side.
An eyewitness remarked "It was a most solemn spectacle to see this Grand Old Man with his flowing snow-white beard marching at the head of the column and keeping pace in spite of his three score and sixteen years. At that point, Sarojini Naidu was appointed to lead the Dharasana Satyagraha, which ended with the beating of hundreds of satyagrahis, an event that attracted worldwide attention to India's independence movement.
Mahatma Gandhi appointed Tyabji, at age seventy-six, to replace him as leader of the Salt Satyagraha in May after Gandhi's arrest.
Abbas Tyabji died in Mussoorie , now in Uttarakhand on 9 June At his age and for one who had never known hardships of life it was no joke to suffer imprisonments. But his faith conquered every obstacle… He was a rare servant of humanity.
He was a servant of India because he was a servant of humanity. He believed in God as Daridranarayana.
He believed that God was to be found in the humblest cottages and among the depressed of the earth.