Sri Aurobindo

Life and Times of the Mahayogi (The Pre-Pondicherry Phase)

— Manoj Das

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Price: Rs 750

Pages: 716
Dimensions (in cms): 16x24
ISBN: 978-93-5210-228-0
Hard Cover
   
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, Pondicherry

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About Sri Aurobindo

This meticulously researched account of Sri Aurobindo’s pre-Pondicherry life is a revised and substantially enlarged version of an earlier work published in 1972, Sri Aurobindo in the First Decade of the Century. The book is mostly built upon archival documents and extracts from personal diaries published and unpublished, and extant reminiscences. There is an abundance of quoted material and rare photographs, and many sketches of people who played important roles in his life, whether friend or foe. For example, there is even a story that US President Theodore Roosevelt requested Lord Minto to send him a copy of an issue of Bande Mataram, which he enjoyed very much.
The book charts Sri Aurobindo’s early life, his initial entry into politics, his active leadership of the freedom movement, and ends with the story of his departure for Chandernagore and then for Pondicherry. The work is so broad in its scope that three introductions are required to set the stage for the narrative and three postscripts and an epilogue to satisfy its completion. The work was serialised in Mother India from April 2011 to November 2017.