Political
Ideas in Modern India:
Thematic Explorations - Page 16 - V R Mehta, Thomas Pantham - 2006 - Preview - More
editions It is thus clear that Aurobindo relied
on the Hindu religious texts and supernatural characters principally to create
and sustain the nationalist zeal... And,
since the constituency of the nationalist agitation against the 1905 Partition
of Bengal was confined to the Hindu bhadralok, ...
Ideologies
And Institutions In Indian Politics - Page 11 - Mahendra
Prasad Singh, Rekha
Saxena - 1998 - Preview
Moreover, what inspired revolutionary terrorism in Bengal and elsewhere was the
ancient Indian past and as an ideologue of this tradition Aurobindo merely articulated the bhadralok search for identity in
the past. Not only did he disregard the ...
Political
thought in modern India -
Page 124 - Thomas
Pantham, Kenneth
L. Deutsch - 1986 - Aurobindo exposed the reality behind the illusion
and emphasised the significance of politics as a means of national
regeneration. ... effect
of blinding the masses to the social and economic chasm that separated them
from the bhadralok and
eliciting their full support for a movement that was launched ...
Bengal
Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947 - Page 13 - Joya
Chatterji - 2002 - Preview - More
editions Just as the bhadralok had
one foot in the city and the other in the countryside, so their nationalism,
though radiating outward from ... Ghosh's
rather curious and exceptionally westernised upbringing, see A. B. Purani, The
Life of Sri Aurobindo.
Sri Aurobindo and his
contemporary thinkers - Page 66 - Indrani
Sanyal, Krishna
Roy, Jadavpur
University - 2007 - This imported concept of "bhadralok" received attention
from some of our contemporary scholars who concluded that the ... Karl Marx himself considered
the birth of an English-educated middle-class
Terror
and the Postcolonial: A Concise Companion - Page 165 Elleke Boehmer,
Stephen Morton - 2011 - Preview - More
editions Future Congress leader Abul Kalam Azad met Aurobindo Ghose “on two or three
occasions” and “was attracted to revolutionary politics and joined ... Most members of terrorist
groups came from the Bengali bhadralok (“respectable
people”).
Empire,
the National, and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance ... - Page 58 - Elleke
Boehmer - 2005 - Preview - More
editions The bhadralok's transactive
nationalism was significantly informed by the internationalized political
context of empire, itself moulded by nationalist ... In relation to Nivedita and Aurobindo, these influences will be examined in the next chapter.
A
History of India -
Page 281 - Burton
Stein, David Arnold - 2010 - Preview - More
editions Like the Bengal bhadralok,
Maratha brahmans of Bombay province found their elite standing contested by ... Bombs were occasionally
deployed by the revolutionary groups that began to be formed under leaders such
as Aurobindo Ghosh.
Sri Aurobindo: The harmony of virtue;
early cultural writings - Page 120 - Aurobindo
Ghose - 1972 - Social Reform
Reform is not an excellent thing in itself as many Europeanised
intellects imagine; neither is it always safe and good to stand unmoved in the
ancient paths as the orthodox obstinately believe. Reform is ...
Contemporary
relevance of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 55 - Kishor Gandhi - 1973 - It was this view and not any aversion to
social reform per se,
that led Sri Aurobindo to
attack the moderate leadership for their misplaced obsession with social
problems. We may turn now to his contribution to the theory ...
Sri Aurobindo: a biography and a history -
Page 325 - K.
R. Srinivasa Iyengar - 1985 - Sri Aurobindo therefore rightly insisted that the Reforms were a mockery and a
trap, and that the cooperation expected from the people was not what true
cooperation should be but merely a pitiful parody of the same: Co-operation can
only be ...
Life
and Works of Sri Aurobindo -
Page 176 - S.R.
Sharma - 2003 - Here a word may be added about the criticism levelled
against Sri Aurobindo and
other Radical leaders that they neglected the important issue of social reform. It is true that they did not
lay much emphasis upon this aspect of public life which ...
Political
Ideas in Modern India:
Thematic Explorations - Page 23 V R Mehta, Thomas Pantham - 2006 - Preview - More
editions Tilak … So deep-rooted was his commitment that he blamed Max
Mueller who defended movements for reform in
Hinduism as a 'sentimental foreigner and [a] misguided ... Aurobindo Ghose's article
'Wither India' in Bande Mataram, 9 August 1907.
Political
Thought and Leadership of Lokmanya Tilak - Page 333 N. R. Inamdar - 1983 - Preview - More
editions It was Tilak's view that "the political movement could not
afford to cut itself off from the great mass of the nation or split itself into
warring factions by premature association of the social reform question with
politics". Aurobindo Ghosh
who had...
The
Social Message of the Gita: Symbolized as Lokasaṁgraha
: ... - Page 101 - Satya
P. Agarwal - 1995 - Preview
Aurobindo characterized
social reform,
educational reform,
industrial expansion, and all attempts towards the moral improvement of the
race "without aiming first and foremost at political freedom", as
Aravindasya Lokasamgraha sandesah ...
The
Dialogue With Death (Sri Aurobindo`S Savitri, A Mystical Approach) - Page
353 - Rohit
Mehta - 2003 - Preview - More
editions All social changes, whether reforms or so-called
revolutions, are of this nature. They are mere modification in the patterns
that exist. Fundamental changes always come from the individual. Society, in
the ultimate analysis is static; it is the ...
Tradition
and the Rhetoric of Right: Popular Political Argument in ... - Page 61 - David
J. Lorenzo - 1999 - Preview
One analyst of Aurobindo's political activities, Jean Sherer, argues
that only the modernist aspects
of Aurobindo's early ... conception) and insisted on
political independence for India without the preconditions of individual and
social reform.
Through
a Glass Darkly: Essays in the Religious Imagination - Page 225 -John
Charles Hawley - 1996 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo, as Reddy
maintains, "steers clear of two extreme views of evil. The first
extreme ... "Is
it possible," wonders O'Connor, "that Aurobindo's impact might delay or even impede the progress of
social reform in India "
(318)? Works Cited ...
Evolutionary,
Spiritual Conceptions of Life - Sri Aurobindo, ... - Page 32 - Michael
Leicht - 2008 - Preview
What is for me problematic, is Aurobindo's
background in this topic. He is convinced that religious practice and not
intellectual advancement could reform a
man and put him on the spiritual path. This anti-Enlightenment philosophy
stance is for ...
Sri Aurobindo and Karl Marx: Integral
Sociology and Dialectical ... - Page 3 - Debi
Prasad Chattopadhyaya - 1988 - Preview
It was from Comte, Saint-'Simon, Fourier and Owen that he [Marx] inherited his
practical zeal for social and political reform. His insistence on the ... Sri Aurobindo's
Approach Sri Aurobindo's concept
of sociology is in a sense very unorthodox. True...
Principles
Of Education - Page 294 - S.S.
Chandra, Rajendra
Kumar Sharma - 2004 - Preview - More
editions Swami Dayanand insisted upon reforming education to suit the educational pattern that
existed in ancient times. ... efforts,
all other educational philosophers of the time, including Sri Aurobindo, Vivekanand, etc., favoured
the modification of the ...
Esalen:
America and the Religion of No Religion - Page 480 - Jeffrey
J. Kripal - 2007 - Preview - More
editions Although Chaudhuri was not
a major influence on either Murphy or Price, it is interesting to note
that his philosophical system, like Esalen's, was an artful synthesis of Aurobindo's Tantric yoga,
evolutionary biology, the Western practice of social reform, and psychoanalysis.
Tantra:
Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion - Page 104 - Hugh
B. Urban - 2007 - Preview - More
editions I would argue, however, that Aurobindo's solution is better understood as another example
of a strategy for dealing with a situation. Like Rammohun Roy 's paradoxical use of the Mahanirvana
Tantra in the service of his own cultural reforms,...
Tagores
Chitra And Aurobindos SavitriA Comparative Study - Page 19 - Ketki
N. Pandya - 2004 - Preview
And a few years later when Tagore met Aurobindo at the latter's ashram, he wrote: Aurobindo, accept the salutation of
Rabindra. He also published an Open Letter to My Countrymen, in which he
opposed the Minto-Morley reforms.
Gandhi's
Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, and ... - Page 48 - Ruth
Vanita - 2005 - Preview - More
editions Sri Aurobindo,
studying in England, was not taught English literature as part of his formal
education. ... Nineteenth-
and twentieth century developments in Hinduism, especially reform movements such as the
Brahmo
Modern
Indian Literature: An Anthology - Volume 3 - Page 110 - K.
M. George - 1992 - Preview - More
editions East and West meet in many ways in the English epic of Sri Aurobindo and the reflective
prose of Radhakrishnan and the plays of ... It was as much inward as outward and sought to understand
and learn rather than to judge or reform.
In all his ...
Guru
English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language - Page 92 - Srinivas
Aravamudan - 2005 - Preview - More
editions Opposing the compromising tactics of “moderate” leaders such as
Pherozeshah Mehta who wanted incremental reforms, Aurobindo allied
himself with the “extremist” wing of Lokmanya Tilak, Lajpat Rai, and Bepin Pal,
who preached full ...
The
White Woman's Other Burden: West Women and South Asia During ... - Page 210
- Visakha
Kumari Jayawardena - 1995 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo made
his mark in nationalist circles with a series of articles (in 1893 and 1894)
entitled New Lamps for Old, which attacked the Indian National Congress policy
of gradual constitutional reform.
By the later 1890s Aurobindo had ...
The
Idea of the Superman in the Plays of G.B. Shaw - Page 41 - D.K.
Singh - 1994 - Preview
For Sri Aurobindo,
evolution does not mean merely addition of some new principle to those which
are emergent. ... Shaw's
views on politics and religion, on dictatorship and revolution, on marriage and
divorce, penal reform and
capital ...
Literature,
Caste and Society: The Masks and Veils - Page 403 - S.
Jeyaseela Stephen - 2006 - Preview
Socio-Cultural Reforms in
Bengal and the Indian National Movement : A Case Study of Prabartak Samgha in
Nation ... the nation
was passing through the momentous crdeal of fire, that with the blessing
of Aurobindo Ghosh and
Motilal Roy, ...
Science
And the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore - Page 23 - David
L. Gosling - 2007 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo Ghose
Unlike most of the personalities who have so far been discussed, Sri Aurobindo was never the leader of
an organized reform group,
but his influence was quite extensive. He can conveniently be classified
together with the ...
The
Persistence of Religion: An Essay on Tantrism and Sri ... - Page 69 - Kees
W. Bolle - 1971 - Preview - More
editions An Essay on Tantrism and Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy Kees W. Bolle ... house of a potter. x) This
text too gives evidence not of a social reform, but of a religious revaluation of "worldly"
data, possible within the Tantric ritualization of the world.
Studies
on Rabindranath Tagore - Volume 1 - Page 9 - Mohit
Kumar Ray - 2004 - Preview - More
editions Rabindranath did not relish the president's observations. Strongly
criticising both Tagore and Dutt, Sri Aurobindo wrote in an article, "To attempt social reform, industrial expansion, the
moral improvement of the race without aiming first and ...
Rebirth
and Karma - Page 16 - Sri
Aurobindo SA Ashram - 1992 - Preview
There is a constant reforming of
personality in new bodies, but this personality is a mutable creation of force
at its work streaming forward in Time and never for a moment the same, and the
ego-sense that makes us...
Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh: National Upsurge - Page 94 M. G. Chitkara - 2004 - Preview
Aurobindo had his own
vision of the Indian Renaissance which, he thought, had not yet emerged but the
possibility of which came as a result ... The aim of reforms consisted
in going back to real Hinduism by setting it free from later accretions.
World
Religions and Islam: A Critical Study - Part 1 - Page 58 Hamid Naseem
Rafiabadi - 2003 - Full
view - More
editions Still others who have made notable contributions to the renaissance
were Rabindernath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo,
Tilak and Gandhi Ji. Islamic values and beliefs indirectly influenced all of
them. The earliest of the reform movements
was the ...
Gurus
and their followers: new religious reform movements
in ... - Antony
R. H. Copley - 2000 - This collection looks at the new religious
reform movements that swept India in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth
centuries.
Hinduism
in Public and Private: Reform,
Hindutva, Gender, and ... Antony
Copley - 2009 - This volume investigates the nature of nationalism and
modernization embraced by the nineteenth and twentieth-century religious reform
movements and their relationship with contemporary Hindutva.
Art
and Nationalism in Colonial India,
1850-1922: Occidental ... - Page 116 - Partha
Mitter - 1995 - Preview - More
editions Aurobindo Ghosh,
soon to emerge as the theoretician of Hindu revolutionary politics, was a
student in England a little ... Rao's reforms had turned Baroda into a
modern state with an impressive record of literacy, especially female literacy.
National
Identity in Indian Popular Cinema: 1947-1987 - Page 89 - Sumita
S. Chakravarty - 1993 - Preview - More
editions Made at the height of the freedom movement, the film makes obvious
use of symbols such as the national anthem, the Bengali literary and social reform tradition (photographs of Sri Aurobindo, Tagore, Vivekananda), as
well as references to ... Cultural
History of Modern India -
Page 89 - Dilip
M. Menon - 2006 - Preview
