Tilak and Sri Aurobindo gave Indian nationalism a religious hue

Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern ... - Page 223 - Prasenjit Duara - 1996 - Preview - More editions Nandy examines the crippling effects of this ideology on those at the interface of the encounter, people such as Rudyard Kipling, E. M. Forster, and C. F. Andrews, on the one side, and Westernized Indians such as Aurobindo Ghosh on the other.

Colonialism, modernity, and religious identities: religious reform ... - Page 249 - Gwilym Beckerlegge - 2008 - More sophisticated and fruitful is political psychologist Ashis Nandy's 'enquiry into the psychological structures and cultural forces which supported or resisted the culture of colonialism in British India', in which he contrasts Aurobindo with Rudyard Kipling, ... Nandy is weakest when dealing with Aurobindo’s spiritual life, falling back, like Gordon, on unsubstantiated guesswork (“Aurobindo's spiritualism can be seen as a way of ... SHADES OF ORIENTALISM - College of Arts and Sciences by P HEEHS – 2003

Nationalism, religion, and beyond: writings on politics, society, ... - Page 26 - Aurobindo Ghose, Peter Heehs - 2005 - Nandy contrasts Tagore's later ideas on nationalism with Aurobindo's early ideas on the subject. A more appropriate comparison would have been with Aurobindo's internationalism as presented in his works of 1915 and after. Aurobindo's ...

In Another Country: Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in ... - Page 10 - Priya Joshi - 2002 - Preview - More editions ... Ashis Nandy maintains that not only did colonized Indians soon create an "alternate language of discourse" to British ... the Indian alternative, articulated in practical and cultural politics by figures such as M. K. Gandhi and Aurobindo Ghose, visibly seeped back ...

Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle ... - Leela Gandhi - 2005 - Preview - More editions Likewise, and in an uncharacteristically Adornian reading of mysticism, Ashis Nandy discerns a contaminating authoritarianism in the spiritual style exercised by the French Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, accusing her of reinforcing rather than mitigating colonial hierarchies: ...

After amnesia: tradition and change in Indian literary criticism - Page 112 - G. N. Devy - 1995 - We will try to read the structure of this amnesia in the text of some selected literary theories produced by some of the ... Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore and Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy are the three most influential literary critics of the...

Terrifying Vision: M. S. Golwalkar, the Rss, and India - Page xli - Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2007 - Preview - More editions European men of action such as Napoleon, Garibaldi and Mazzini, and through the attempts of men like Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and V.D. Savarkar to articulate an idea of the nation during the colonial period. In the maturing and development of Golwalkar’s vision of a Hindu Rashtra, figures like Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Tilak, Madan Mohan Malaviya and Savarkar played an important role… Similarly, Sri Aurobindo's thought represented for Golwalkar a perfect antidote to cultural amnesia and modern forms of secularism. In Golwalkar's reading of Aurobindo, the Maharishi was seen as an unambiguous votary of the ancient sanatana dharma as the basis of national life in India, or rather, Bharat.

Indian Writing in English: Critical Appraisals - Page 288 - Amar Nath Prasad - 2005 - Full view It displays the typical "amnesia" and distorted vision of the Indian towards his/her own history. And therefore as an Indian poem has little to contribute to Indian poetry, except for its sentimental nostalgia. Aurobindo's sonnet on the other hand ...

Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime - Page 164 - Vijay Mishra - 1998 - Preview - More editions The “establishment" Indian thus suffers from a massive amnesia when it comes to his or her own vernaculars of which ... in pointing out the total inadequacy of Sri Aurobindo's literary theory because he so desperately wanted to recast Indian ...

Bhakti Poetry in Medieval India: Its Inception, Cultural Encounter ... - Page 220

Neeti M. Sadarangani - 2004 - Full view ... novelists and pamphleteers like Surendranath Banerjee, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Aurobindo, Srinivasa Shastri, Bankim Chandra, Romesh Chunder Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore.

Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers - Page 115 Prof. Mahendra Prasad Singh - 2011 - Preview - More editions Aurobindo was not the one to subscribe to a defensive and ascetic Hinduism. ...He talked the language of revivalism, and accused the British of creating policies that encouraged cultural amnesia in the people of the nation in order to produce ...

Philosophical Humanism And Contemporary India - Page 5 - Vishwanath Prasad Varma - 2006 - Preview - More editions However during the freedom struggle a mighty attempt was made by patriarchs and stalwarts like Dayananda, Tilak, Gokhale, Gandhi, Shraddhananda, Aurobindo, Malaviya, Savarkara, Hedgewar and others to build a political elan on the ...

Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism - Page 11 - Peter Morey, Alex Tickell - 2005 - Preview - More editions 25 Notable progressives include Surendranath Banerjea, Pherozeshah Mehta, Mahadev Ranade and Gopal Krishna Gokhale; conservatives counted among their number Balgangadhar Tilak, Aurobindo Ghosh, Madan Mohan Malaviya, ...

Identity and Religion: Foundations of Anti-Islamism in India - Page 28 - Amalendu Misra - 2004 - Preview - More editions The main votaries of this approach were Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghosh, Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. These thinkers went on to ask whether Islam and Hinduism contained any such shared understanding.

History of Philosophy (3 Vols. Set) - Page 107 - William Turner - 2007 - Preview Both Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo are credited with having found the basis for a vision of freedom and glory for India in the spiritual richness and heritage of Hinduism. Madan Mohan Malviya, a politician with the Congress Party and ...

Rediscovering Gandhi: Hind Swaraj, Gandhi's Challenge to Modern ... - Page 153

R. P. Misra - 2007 - Preview The second group consisted of persons like Shyamji Krishnavarma, Sri Aurobindo Ghosh, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Bipin Chandra Pal, ... The fourth group had Madan Mohan Malaviya, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, Jagdish Chunder Bose, C.V. Raman, ...

Autobiography - Page 48 - Rajendra Prasad - 1946 - Preview ... bipin Chandra pal, Aurobindo ghosh and others, and the rightists by men like Sir pherozshah Mehta and gopal Krishna gokhale. Surendranath banerjee and pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya stood somewhere in between these two groups.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya: a socio-political study - Page 178 - Sundar Lal Gupta - 1978 - Aurobindo and Lajpat Rai stood at two ends of the Nationalist Party, Tilak had differences with Aurobindo. ...

History of Indian Literature: 1911-1956, struggle for freedom : ... - Page 352 - Sisir Kumar Das - 1995 - Preview - More editions Tilak and Aurobindo gave Indian nationalism a religious hue. Lajpat Rai and Bipin Chandra Pal, the two powerful leaders, strengthened that tradition. The Hindu Mahasabha met in 1915 under the leadership of Madan Mohan Malviya.

Aurobindo and Jugantar - Page 55 - Arun Chandra Guha - 197? - The Working Committee decided to appoint Malaviya to arbitrate on this dispute. Malaviya approved the list of delegates sent by the new BPCC, A large number of Jugantar workers went with Das to support the SWARAJIST POLITICS 55.

The life of Sri Aurobindo: a source book - Page 268 - Ambalal Balkrishna Purani - 1964 - In Swami Shraddhananda, Pandit Madanmohan Malaviya, Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi — to name some leaders, ... all the visions of perfection of the human spirit on earth, I found the synthetic and integral vision of Sri Aurobindo the most ...

Eclipse of Empire - Page 83 - D. A. Low - 1993 - Preview - More editions ... occurred; while from 1917 onwards Malaviya, Tandon and others were forming Kisan Sabhas and Kisan Sanghas ... UP. It is of major significance that unlike most of their predecessors (certainly Naoroji, Mehta, Gokhale, Aurobindo,...

Hinduism and Secularism: A Critical Study - Dr. R. S. Misra - 1996 - Preview - More editions But this ancient and living philosophy of life that has been upheld and reinterpreted even by the great thinkers and leaders of India of the present era. right from Swamy Vivekananda to Lokamanya Tilak, Mahamana Malaviya ji. Sri Aurobindo ...

Recent Philosophies of Education in India - Page 11 - Sarayu Prasad Chaube - 2005 - Preview - More editions ... Justice Ranade, Swami Dayananda, Mrs. Annie Besant, Pandit Madan MohanMalviya, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Ramkrishna Paramhamsa, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and a host of others.

Tagores Chitra And Aurobindos SavitriA Comparative Study - Page 13 - Ketki N. Pandya - 2004 - Preview The important names who actively participated in these institutions were Tilak, Hardayal, Aurobindo Ghose, Ras Bihari Bose, Surendranath ... Therefore Madan Mohan Malviya, Lajpat Rai and other leaders joined the Hindu Mahasabha.

Gandhi or Aurobindo? and An appeal to Mr. Gandhi - Page 21 - Bhim Chandra Chatterjee - 1921 - Snippet view - More editions ... fifteen years ago at the call of Aurobindo Ghose. ... It was not without reason that the Extremist leaders of Bengal and Maharashtra, and Pundit Madan Mohan Malaviya on behalf of the United Provinces, opposed Mr. Gandhi on the Calcutta ...

Study of the psychological foundation of the "free progress ... - Page 16  - Chandrakant P. Patel - 1986 - of discussions and interviews with prominent educationists of Sri Aurobindo Ashram during his three months stay over ... Sri Aurobindo, Dr. D. K. Karve, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Dr. J. C. Bose, Keshavachandra Sen, Pandit M. M. Malaviya, ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 41 - Page 16 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1988 - its own bankruptcy in the management of life. Poetry, music and literature offered temporary amnesia. They were good psychotropic drugs, but they cured nothing. It was in this mood of debilitating hopelessness that I discovered Sri Aurobindo, ...

Like Mazzini Sri Aurobindo prized the moral re-awakening

Sri Aurobindo's political thought, 1893-1908 - Page 43 - Aurobindo Ghose, Haridāsa Mukhopādhyāẏa, Haridas Mukherjee - 1958 - Like Mazzini of the 19th century, Aurobindo prized above everything else the value of the moral re-awakening of the nation before it could seriously aspire after political freedom; but at the same time he also valued at its proper worth the ...

Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture - Volume 18 - Page 39 - Ramakrishna Mission. Institute of Culture - 1967 - It drew inspiration from the blazing account of Garibaldi and Mazzini. The agitation ultimately produced two groups of leaders: moderates and the extremists, in the last decade of the nineteenth century. Aurobindo and B. G. Tilak eventually ...

United Asia - Volume 10 - Page 379 - 1958 - This ideology was subsequently adopted by a group of nationalist leaders in the beginning of the present century — Aurobindo Ghose, Bipinchandra Pal, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Lala Lajpat Rai being the outstanding among these leaders.

Economic and political weekly - Volume 12, Part 4 - Page 2047  - 1977 - The reactionary nationalism of the extremist group at the beginning of this century — Aurobindo, Tilak and Pal — who aimed at building the nationalist movement on the basis of ancient Hindu religions and supernatural credulities, was not ...

Secular democracy - Volume 4 - Page 39 - 1971 - From being an ardent spokesman of rising Indian nationalism in the nineties of the nineteenth century Aurobindo had become a mystic recluse by the middle of the twentieth century. It was on 24 April 1949 that Aurobindo allowed himself to be ...

Subhas Bose and India Today: A New Tryst with Destiny ? - Page 77 - Pradip Bose - 1999 - Preview So widespread and deep was its impact that the British Government annulled the partition of Bengal in 1911 and this was the first victory of India's nationalist struggle at the beginning of the 20th century. Aurobindo withdrew from politics in ...

Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism - Page 67 - Jyotirmaya Sharma - 2011 - Preview - More editions III As a revolutionary nationalist writing in the first decade of the twentieth century, Aurobindo welcomed Pan-Islamism and the rise of a separate Muslim Self-consciousness. He saw it as a sign of the vitality of nationalism and as part of the ...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 96 - Hugh B. Urban - 2007 - Preview - More editions Like Vivekananda and other spiritual leaders of the early twentieth century, Aurobindo is painfully aware of the figure of the "effete babu" in the colonial imagination, the fawning, submissive, emasculated servant of British administration.

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy - Page 56 - Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal - 1998 - Preview - More editions In what was an early revisionist piece on the eighteenth century Aurobindo Ghose argued just after the end of World War I that 'a new life' which 'seemed about to rise in the regional peoples' was 'cut short by the intrusion of European nations'.

Yoga psychology and the transformation of consciousness: seeing ... - Page xxi - Don Salmon, Jan Maslow - 2007 - Their innovative and transformative narrative builds on the great advances in Yoga Philosophy developed by the eminent Indian sage Sri Aurobindo in the 20^th Century. Aurobindo brings this amazing and evolving classical tradition of Yoga...

Four religions of Asia: a primer - Page 53 - Herbert Hewitt Stroup - 1968 - Indicative of the importance of the work is the fact that many noted leaders of Indian life during the last half-century — Aurobindo, Tilak, Nehru, Gandhi, and Radhakrishnan among others — all have written commentaries on the Gita.

The Sangh Parivar: a reader - Page 24 - Christophe Jaffrelot - 2005 - In the early part of the twentieth century, Aurobindo Ghose stated the case in terms that the RSS was later to emphasize: If you try other and foreign methods we shall either gain our end of national awakening with tedious slowness, painfully ...

Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: essays in modern Indian history - Page 62 - Peter Heehs - 1998 – Conclusions: At the turn of the century Aurobindo Ghose believed that violent revolution was the best way for India to achieve freedom. He thought that other, non-violent methods might also be used, but 'the action with which he started' was 'a ...

Modern India: 1885-1947 - Page 98 - Sumit Sarkar - 1989 - ... in the 1894 essays on Bankimchandra, in the end eluded the Extremists. By the turn of the century, Aurobindo was trying to organize secret societies, and sending Jatindranath Banerji and Barindrakumar Ghosh to Bengal as emissaries.

The making of India's foreign policy: determinants, institutions, ... - Page 70 - Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya - 1980 - The same line of thinking is found in Sri Aurobindo, perhaps the leading philosopher and abstract political thinker of modern India, who profoundly influenced the course of Indian political thinking in the first half of this century. Aurobindo ...

The renaissance to militant nationalism in India - Page 245 - Sankar Ghose - 1969 -  ... who was considerably influenced by the teachings of Vivekananda, actively participated in political work in the first decade of the twentieth century. Aurobindo, one of the leaders of the extremists, desired to found the nationalist movement ...

Writer in freedom struggle, India & Bulgaria - Page 54 Kartar Singh Duggal - 1988 - ... forward and conquer the whole world by the strength of India's spirituality. And at the end of the century, Aurobindo Ghosh gave voice to "the aspirations of young India a divining intention of the spirit of liberty, the beating of whose wings was ...

Creative India: from Mohenjo Daro to the age of Rāmakṛṣṇa-Vivekānanda - Page 607 - Benoy Kumár Sarkar - 1937 - This is perhaps the first specimen of creative India enthusing over a Greek theme. Students of world-literature will not fail to find in it the assimilation of the Aeschylean spirit by a Bengali poet of the twentieth century. Aurobindo's hand is equally ...

The Encyclopedia of religion - Volume 11 - Page 321 - Mircea Eliade, Charles J. Adams - 1987 - In this century, Aurobindo Ghose in India and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin in Europe have made the most outstanding philosophical efforts to reconcile the two opposed cosmological tendencies: that of the traditional religions, in which the ... Science and spirit - Page 28 - Ravi Ravindra - 1991

Integral Advaitism Of Sri Aurobindo - Page 394 - Rāmacandra Miśra - 1998 - Preview We regard this as a major contribution of Sri Aurobindo to the theory of Reality or the Absolute. And the merit of this integral view of the Absolute is enhanced by the fact that it is strongly supported by our higher reason or the logic of the Infinite.

Mirapuri – the City of Peace and Future Man in Europe, Italy and ... - Volume 1 - Page 46  - Michel Montecrossa - Preview Sri Aurobindo and Mira Alfassa joined their forces and in powerful teamwork could enhance the realisation of the Integral Yoga to the degree where it was accepted by the human consciousness and since then is moving further and unfolding ...

Mother India: monthly review of culture - Volume 24 - Page 246 - Sri Aurobindo Ashram - 1972 - Here we have to hazard a guess. Sri Aurobindo must have been impressed and enthused by the sudden birth of the Indian National Congress in 1885. He was then only thirteen and many older than he had been swept off their feet by "the ...

Savitri: talks in Germany - Page 99 - Madhav Pundalik Pandit - 1987 - Similarly what Buddha taught, we can only guess. Sri Aurobindo observes that Buddha came to establish the truth of the Divine without form. Each incarnation spoke of the Divine having one form or another. Buddha spoke of nirakara, without ...

Sri Aurobindo and the new age: essays in memory of Kishor Gandhi - Page 21

Sachidananda Mohanty, Nirodbaran, Maurice Shukla - 1997 - During the first decade of this century, Sri Aurobindo made a detailed study to find out the conditions required for the reawakening of India, and during his explorations, which were not confined to the domains of scholarship and political action, ...

Understanding thoughts of Sri Aurobindo - Page 255 - Indrani Sanyal, Krishna Roy, Jadavpur University. Centre for Sri Aurobindo Studies - 2007 - In the early decades of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo wrote extensively about the renaissance taking place in India; he noted that it was particularly strong and vibrant in most of the fields of culture. The only exception was in the political ...

Sri Aurobindo--the poet - Volume 2, Part 4 - Page 408 - Kaikhushru Dhunjibhoy Sethna - 1999 - In the early years of our century Sri Aurobindo had already written A Vision of Science, in which the poet dreams of three Angels striving within him for mastery. Towards the end of it the second Angel, Science, is asked by the departing Angel ...

Care of the Unborn Child with Yoga - Page 73 - Jaypee Brothers, Medical Publishers, Narendran - 2006 - Preview A great Indian teacher of this century, Sri Aurobindo, regarded yoga as a methodical effort toward self-perfection through developing our latent potential on the physical, vital, mental, intellectual and spiritual levels. And the most fundamental ...

How they came to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: twenty-nine true ... - Page 180 - Shyam Kumari - 1990 - In the early decades of this century Sri Aurobindo had realised what he had seen and he launched upon the tremendous task of bringing it down on the earth. The country at the same time was aflame with the zeal to free itself from foreign rule.

Sri Aurobindo circle - Issue 41 - Page 130 - Aurobindo Ghose - 1985 - At the beginning of the present century Sri Aurobindo wondered whether the country would, after all, have to rattle on from bad to worse on the existing rails. Presently he entered the world of Vyasa and found that a polity suited to the Indian...

Towards eternity; Sri Aurobindo birth centenary volume, 15th ... - Page 310 - Aurobindo Ghose, V. Madhusudan Reddy - 1973 - When in the early years of this century Sri Aurobindo was not only making a public declaration - and he was the first to do it — of his vision of complete Independence for India but also was actively working for its attainment, he knew and ...

Sri Aurobindo's plays: a thematic study - Page 161 - Sheo Jaiswal - 1993 - At the time of writing Perseus the Deliverer or poems like 'Baji Prabhu', in the first decade of this century, Sri Aurobindo preached fiery nationalism, and favoured the use even of the sword when necessary. His nationalist politics was not very ...