Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 496 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 463-476) and index. |
Contents |
Son : Early years in India: Bengal, 1872-1879 -- Scholar : Growing up English : England, 1879-1893 -- Encountering India: Baroda, 1893-1906 -- Revolutionary -- Into the fray: Calcutta, 1906-1908 -- In jail and after: Bengal, 1908-1910 -- Yogi and Philosopher -- A laboratory experiment: Pondicherry, 1910-1915 -- The Major Works: Pondicherry, 1914-1920 -- Guide -- The ascent to supermind: Pondicherry, 1915-1926 -- An active retirement: Pondicherry, 1927-1950. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Summary |
Since his death in 1950, Sri Aurobindo Ghose has been known primarily as a yogi and a philosopher of spiritual evolution who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in peace and literature. But the years Aurobindo spent in yogic retirement were preceded by nearly four decades of rich public and intellectual work. Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living. Peter Heehs, one of the founders of the Sri. |
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Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950.
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Ghose, Aurobindo, 1872-1950. (OCoLC)fst00038288
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Aurobindo.
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Gurus -- India -- Biography.
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Philosophers -- India -- Biography.
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Nationalists -- India -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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RELIGION -- Hinduism -- History.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Religious.
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Gurus. (OCoLC)fst00949496
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Nationalists. (OCoLC)fst01033905
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Philosophers. (OCoLC)fst01060746
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India. (OCoLC)fst01210276
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Other Form: |
Print version: Heehs, Peter. Lives of Sri Aurobindo. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008 9780231140980 (DLC) 2007018739 (OCoLC)124074907 |
ISBN |
9780231511841 (electronic bk.) |
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0231511841 (electronic bk.) |
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