Stokes Memorial School

students. The Inspiration: The school is named after Shri Satyanand Stokes who came from a distinguished and affluent American family and adopted India and its people as his own. His contributions ranged from working in a leprosy asylum at the age of twenty one, to fighting for the rights of the hill people during the 'begar' movement, to being jailed during the Independence struggle. His role as an educationist is less well known. In his early years he ran and financially supported one of the oldest schools in the state. In later years he ran a free school for the locals village children in his own estate. Mahatma Gandhi described him as "the veritable guide, philosopher and friend of the hill men." Our Society has named the school after him in the hope of providing the kind of empowering which might produce some much-needed independent thinkers and courageous "doers".