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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAll students and scholars of Sri Aurobindo will find this extraordinary book most rewarding... Essential. CHOICE A great biography... a doorway into [Sri Aurobindo's] extraordinary spiritual philosophy and vision. EnlightenNext It is engagingly written and supported by a bounty of historical materials. Students of India with little familiarity of Aurobindo will discover that Heehs offers a multisided portrait of a brilliant and enigmatic man whose lifetime spanned a momentous period in modern Indian history... -- Hanna H. Kim H-Asia The book's strength is Heehs' deep understanding of modern India, which gives him an edge in perceptively situating Aurobindo within the context of Indian national movement. -- Vijendra Singh Contemporary South Asia ...meticulously reported and scrupulously footnoted... Yoga Journal Heehs has succeeded magnificently; The Lives of Sri Aurobindo is quickly becoming the biography for academics. AntiMatter Heehs' work is an epic effort to encompass the outer and inner life of a personality, who seems to defy all definitions and boundaries, written with the intention of making him comprehensible to the scholarly mind of our times. I believe this book to be eminently successful -- Debashish Banerji Sophia A formidable piece of scholarship. -- Antony Copley Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Note on Proper Names Part One: Son 1. Early Years in India: Bengal, 1872-1879 Part Two: Scholar 2. Growing up English: England, 1879-1893 3. Encountering India: Baroda, 1893-1910 Part Three: Revolutionary 4. Into the Fray: Calcutta, 1906-1908 5. In Jail and After: Bengal, 1908-1910 Part Four: Yogi and Philosopher 6. A Laboratory Experiment: Pondicherry, 1910-1915 7. The Major Works: Pondicherry, 1914-1920 Part Five: Guide 8. The Ascent to Supermind: Pondicherry, 1915-1926 9. An Active Retirement: Pondicherry, 1927-1950 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
