July 04, 2012

Sri Aurobindo cannot be held accountable for the beliefs of Hindutva

The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power - Page 280 - Partha Chatterjee - 2012 - 440 pages - Preview The case against Aurobindo failed. The Anglo-Indian press alleged that this was because he had studied at Cambridge with Brailsford. Soon after his release, Aurobindo, fearing he would be arrested again, made his way to the French ...

Sri Aurobindo in the first decade of the century - Manoj DasManoj Das - 1972 - 207 pages - Bipin Chandra was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for his stand. There was great jubilation when the charge against Sri Aurobindo failed. Congratulations flowed in and newspapers came out with special articles to greet him.

The quest for political and spiritual liberation: a study in the ... - June O'ConnorJune O'Connor - 1977 - 153 pages - Thus, Aurobindo failed to reach either, and as a consequence he was unable to achieve liberation for India.3 In response to Johnson's conclusion, however, it must be pointed out that, besides Aurobindo's appeal to the religious heritage ... ... Aurobindo faulted Gandhi for applying to "ordinary life" what belongs to "spirituality," implying a dissonance between the two realms. ExperientiallyAurobindo was unable to unite the political and spiritual realms ...

RSS, victim of slander: a multi-dimensional study of RSS, Jana ... - Nana Deshmukh - 1979 - 168 pages - The dreams of Gandhi, Tilak and Aurobindo failed to fructify. The loss of direction was not very much evident so long as Nehru and Patel were on the political scene. It came into focus afterwards, but the seeds of disruption had been ...

Women, politics, and literature in Bengal -  Clinton B. SeelyKali Charan Bahl - 1981 - 167 pages - These critics tend to suggest that the extremist leaders gave a communal turn to the freedom movement which led to the eventual partition of India on communal l ines: Along with Bankim and Tilak, however, he [Sri Aurobindo] failed to ...

The extremist challenge: India between 1890 and 1910 - Amales Tripathi - 1967 - 246 pages - Aurobindo had failed in his first attempt (1902-4) because it had been secular. Hence the religious garb of the second. Aurobindo himself refuses to give the book such importance. It was Barin's idea and he was neither concerned with ...

Tracking Modernity: India's Railway and the Culture of Mobility - Page 63 - Marian Aguiar - 2011 - 272 pages - Preview ... but as Peter Heehs points out, these statements were made in a particular historical and cultural context within the struggle for decolonization, and therefore Aurobindo cannot be held accountable for the beliefs of Hindutva.60 ...

Consequently — in the sense in which Teilhard wanted to change and expand his religion and his Church — Sri Aurobindo cannot be said, as Zaehner suggests, to have wanted to transforn Hinduism by his dynamic philosophy (p. 34).

The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and ... - Page 122 - Robert Neil Minor - 1999 - 208 pages - Preview ... there is no reason why "'Aurobindoism' cannot be classified, if not as a new religion, as a new sect of Hinduism and why the followers of Shri Aurobindo cannot be termed a religious denomination."20 Since the Society stands before the Court making the same claim to religious status, he allows them their claim.

Indian literature in English: critical views - Page 33 - Satish Barbuddhe - 2007 - 419 pages - Full view Sri Aurobindo's Life, Mind and Art — DrSaryug Yadav - It was the hour before the Gods awake — Sri Aurobindo London to Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo is one of ... 36 Sri Aurobindo cannot be tethered down to any age or movement or cult, but in him the national character of India gets its most genuine and powerful expression. The whole of a tradition coming down from the hoary days of the Vedas ...

Bengal's response to Gandhi - Chandi Charan BiswasChandi Charan Biswas - 2004 - 302 pages - The leading thinkers of the nationalist camp such as Bankim, Vivekananda andAurobindo cannot be placed in the same category along with those who opposed the modernist movement of Rammohun and tried to maintain the traditional social...

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