“He became friends with some of the Irish nationalists…. he established a Dublin Indian Society with the 100 Indian students who were there at the time. The emebers discarded the hat. They viewed the hat as a symbol of the Britisher. Instead they took to the Fez cap.”

—  V. V. Giri

R.K. Murthi in: "Encyclopedia of Bharat Ratnas", P.77

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