Sri Aurobindo. // Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings

India Renascent	1890 / 18921
About New Lamps for Old [1] [The facts about the articles in the Indu Prakash...]
About New Lamps for Old [2] [The title refers to Congress...]
New Lamps for Old — 1	07-08-18931
New Lamps for Old — 2	21-08-18931
New Lamps for Old — 3	28-08-18931
New Lamps for Old — 4	18-09-18931
New Lamps for Old — 5	30-10-18931
New Lamps for Old — 6	13-11-18931
New Lamps for Old — 7	04-12-18931
New Lamps for Old — 8	05-02-18941
New Lamps for Old — 9	06-03-18941
Unity: An Open Letter to Those Who Despair of Their Country	(?) / 19051
On Bhawani Mandir	(?) / 19052
Bhawani Mandir	(?) / 19051
Bhawani Mandir. Appendix	(?) / 19051
An Organisation	1901 / 19051
The Proposed Reconstruction of Bengal	c. / 19041
A Note on "Bande Mataram" [1] Passage from Note. Full version see here snd here	-
A Note on "Bande Mataram" [2] Passage from a note. Full version see here and here	-
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. I. Introduction	11-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. II. Its Object	12-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. III. Its Necessity	13-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. IV. Its Methods	17-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. V. Its Obligations	18-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. VI. Its Limits	20-04-19071
The Doctrine of Passive Resistance. VII. Conclusions	23-04-19071
The Morality of Boycott	19081
A Fragment [Earlier printed as a part of The Morality of Boycott]	19081
Bande Mataram
Darkness in "Light"	20-08-19061
Our Rip Van Winkles	20-08-19061
Indians Abroad	20-08-19061
Officials on the Fall of Fuller	20-08-19061
Cow-Killing: An Englishman's Amusements in Jalpaiguri	20-08-19061
National Education and the Congress	22-08-1906N
A Pusillanimous Proposal	25-08-1906N
By the Way	27-08-19061
The "Mirror" and Mr. Tilak	28-08-19061
Leaders in Council	28-08-19061
By the Way	30-08-19061
Lessons at Jamalpur	01-09-19061
By the Way	01-09-19061
By the Way	03-09-19061
English Enterprise and Swadeshi	04-09-19061
Jamalpur	04-09-19061
By the Way	04-09-19061
The Times on Congress Reforms	08-09-19061
By the Way	08-09-19061
The Sanjibani on Mr. Tilak	10-09-19061
Secret Tactics	10-09-19061
By the Way	10-09-19061
The Question of the Hour	11-09-19061
A Criticism	11-09-19061
The Old Policy and the New	12-09-19061
Is a Conflict Necessary?	12-09-19061
The Charge of Vilification	12-09-19061
Autocratic Trickery	12-09-19061
The Bhagalpur Meeting	12-09-1906N
By the Way	12-09-19061
Strange Speculations	13-09-19061
The "Statesman" under Inspiration	13-09-19061
A Disingenuous Defence	14-09-19061
The Friend Found Out	17-09-1906N
Stopgap Won't Do	17-09-19061
By the Way	17-09-19061
Is Mendicancy Successful?	18-09-19061
By the Way	18-09-19061
Mischievous Writings	20-09-1906N
A Luminous Line	20-09-1906N
By the Way	20-09-19061
By the Way	01-10-19061
By the Way	10-10-1906N
By the Way	11-10-19061
The Coming Congress	13-10-1906N
Statesman's Sympathy Brand	29-10-19061
By the Way: News from Nowhere	29-10-19061
The Man of the Past and the Man of the Future	26-12-19061
The Results of the Congress	31-12-19061
Yet There is Method in It	25-02-19071
Mr. Gokhale's Disloyalty	28-02-19071
The Comilla Incident	15-03-19071
British Protection or Self-Protection	18-03-19071
By the Way	21-03-1907N
The Berhampur Conference	29-03-19071
The President of the Berhampur Conference	02-04-19071
Peace and the Autocrats	03-04-19071
Many Delusions	05-04-19071
Omissions and Commissions at Berhampur	06-04-19071
The Writing on the Wall	08-04-19071
A Nil-admirari Admirer	09-04-19071
Pherozshahi at Surat	10-04-19071
The Situation in East Bengal	11-04-19071
The Proverbial Offspring	12-04-19071
By the Way	12-04-19071
By the Way	13-04-19071
The Old Year	16-04-19071
A Vilifier on Vilification	17-04-19071
By the Way: A Mouse in a Flutter	17-04-19071
Simple, not Rigorous	18-04-19071
British Interests and British Conscience	18-04-19071
A Recommendation	18-04-19071
An Ineffectual Sedition Clause	19-04-19071
The "Englishman" as a Statesman	19-04-19071
The Gospel According to Surendranath	22-04-19071
A Man of Second Sight	23-04-19071
Passive Resistance in The Punjab	23-04-19071
By the Way	24-04-19071
Bureaucracy at Jamalpur	25-04-19071
Is This Your Lion of Bengal?	25-04-1907N
Anglo-Indian Blunderers	25-04-19071
The Leverage of Faith	25-04-19071
Graduated Boycott	26-04-19071
Instinctive Loyalty	26-04-19071
Nationalism not Extremism	26-04-19071
Shall India be Free? The Loyalist Gospel	27-04-19071
The Mask is Off	27-04-19071
A Loyalist in a Panic	27-04-1907N
Shall India be Free? National Development and Foreign Rule	29-04-19071
Shall India be Free?	30-04-19071
Moonshine for Bombay Consumption?	01-05-19071
The "Reformer" on Moderation	01-05-19071
Shall India be Free? Unity and British Rule	02-05-19071
Extremism in the "Bengalee"	03-05-19071
Hare or Another	03-05-19071
Look on This Picture, Then on That	06-05-19071
Curzonism for the University	08-05-19071
By the Way	09-05-19071
The Crisis	11-05-19071
In Praise of the Government	13-05-19071
How to Meet the Ordinance	15-05-19071
The Latest Phase of Morleyism	15-05-1907N
An Old Parrot Cry Repeated	15-05-1907N
Mr. Morley's Pronouncement	16-05-19071
What does Mr. Hare Mean?	16-05-19071
The "Statesman" Unmasks	17-05-19071
Sui Generis	17-05-19071
The "Statesman" on Mr. Mudholkar	20-05-19071
Silent Leaders	21-05-1907N
The Government Plan of Campaign	22-05-19071
And Still It Moves	23-05-19071
The Thunderer's Challenge	24-05-1907N
An Irish Example	24-05-19071
The East Bengal Disturbances	25-05-19071
Newmania	25-05-19071
Mr. Gokhale on Deportation	25-05-1907N
The Gilded Sham Again	27-05-19071
National Volunteers	27-05-19071
The True Meaning of the Risley Circular	28-05-19071
The Effect of Petitionary Politics	29-05-19071
The Ordinance and After	30-05-19071
Common Sense in an Unexpected Quarter	30-05-19071
Drifting Away	30-05-19071
The Question of the Hour	01-06-19071
Regulated Independence	04-06-19071
A Consistent "Patriot"	04-06-19071
Wanted, a Policy	05-06-19071
Preparing the Explosion	05-06-19071
A Statement	06-06-19071
Defying the Circular	07-06-19071
By the Way: When shall We Three Meet Again?	07-06-19071
The Strength of the Idea	08-06-19071
Comic Opera Reforms	08-06-19071
Paradoxical Advice	08-06-19071
An Out of Date Reformer	12-06-19071
The Sphinx	14-06-19071
Slow but Sure	17-06-19071
The Rawalpindi Sufferers	18-06-19071
The Main Feeder of Patriotism	19-06-19071
Concerted Action	20-06-19071
The Bengal Government's Letter	20-06-19071
British Justice	21-06-19071
The Moral of the Coconada Strike	21-06-19071
The "Statesman" on Shooting	21-06-19071
Mr. A. Chowdhury's Policy	22-06-19071
A Current Dodge	22-06-19071
More about British Justice	24-06-19071
Morleyism Analysed	25-06-19071
Political or Non-political	25-06-19071
The "Statesman" on Mr. Chowdhuri	26-06-19071
"Legitimate Patriotism"	27-06-19071
Personal Rule and Freedom of Speech and Writing	28-06-19071
The Acclamation of the House	02-07-19071
Europe and Asia	03-07-19071
English Obduracy and Its Reason	11-07-19071
Work and Speech	12-07-1907(?)N
From Phantom to Reality	13-07-19071
Swadeshi in Education	13-07-19071
Boycott and After	15-07-19071
The Khulna Comedy	20-07-19071
The Korean Crisis	22-07-19071
One More for the Altar	25-07-19071
The Issue	29-07-19071
The 7th of August	06-08-19071
The "Indian Patriot" on Ourselves	06-08-19071
To Organise	08-08-19071
A Compliment and Some Misconceptions	12-08-19071
Pal on the Brain	12-08-19071
To Organise Boycott	c. 14-08-19071
The Bloomfield Murder	c. 14-08-1907N
The Foundations of Nationality	c. 17-08-19071
Barbarities at Rawalpindi	c. 19-08-19071
The High Court Miracles	c. 19-08-19071
Justice Mitter and Swaraj	c. 19-08-1907N
Advice to National College Students	23-08-19071
Sankharitola's Apologia	24-08-19071
Our False Friends	26-08-19071
Repression and Unity	27-08-1907(?)1
The Three Unities of Sankharitola	31-08-1907(?)1
Eastern Renascence	03-09-19071
The Martyrdom of Bepin Chandra	12-09-19071
The Unhindu Spirit of Caste Rigidity	20-09-19071
Caste and Democracy	22-09-19071
Impartial Hospitality	23-09-1907N
Free Speech	24-09-1907N
"Bande Mataram" Prosecution	25-09-19071
The Chowringhee Pecksniff and Ourselves	26-09-19071
The "Statesman" in Retreat	28-09-19071
True Swadeshi	04-10-1907N
Novel Ways to Peace	05-10-19071
"Armenian Horrors"	05-10-19071
The Vanity of Reaction	07-10-1907(?)1
The Price of a Friend	07-10-1907(?)1
A New Literary Departure	07-10-1907(?)1
Mr. Keir Hardie and India	08-10-19071
The Nagpur Affair and True Unity	23-10-19071
The Nagpur Imbroglio	29-10-19071
English Democracy Shown Up	31-10-19071
How to Meet the Inevitable Repression	02-11-1907N
Difficulties at Nagpur	04-11-19071
Mr. Tilak and the Presidentship	05-11-19071
Nagpur and Loyalist Methods	16-11-19071
The Life of Nationalism	16-11-19071
By the Way: In Praise of Honest John	18-11-19071
Bureaucratic Policy	19-11-19071
The New Faith	30-11-1907N
About Unity	02-12-19071
Personality or Principle	03-12-19071
Persian Democracy	03-12-1907N
More about Unity	04-12-19071
By the Way	05-12-19071
Caste and Representation	06-12-19071
About Unmistakable Terms	12-12-19071
The Surat Congress	13-12-19071
Reasons of Secession	14-12-19071
The Awakening of Gujerat	17-12-19071
"Capturing the Congress"	18-12-19071
Lala Lajpat Rai's Refusal	18-12-19071
The Delegates' Fund	18-12-19071
The Present Situation	19-01-19081
Bande Mataram	29-01-19081
Revolutions and Leadership	06-02-19081
The Slaying of Congress: A Tragedy in Three Acts	11-02-1908(?) / 15-02-1908N
Swaraj	18-02-19081
The Future of the Movement	19-02-19081
Work and Ideal	20-02-19081
By the Way	20-02-19081
The Latest Sedition Trial	21-02-19081
The Soul and India's Mission	21-02-19081
The Glory of God in Man	22-02-19081
A National University	24-02-19081
A Misconception	24-02-1908N
Mustafa Kamil Pasha	03-03-19081
A Great Opportunity	04-03-19081
The Strike at Tuticorin	04-03-1908N
Swaraj and the Coming Anarchy	05-03-19081
Back to the Land	06-03-1908N
The Village and the Nation	08-03-1908(?)1
Welcome to the Prophet of Nationalism	10-03-19081
The Voice of the Martyrs	11-03-19081
Constitution-making	11-03-19081
What Committee?	11-03-19081
A Great Message	12-03-19081
The Tuticorin Victory	13-03-19081
Perpetuate the Split!	14-03-19081
Loyalty to Order	14-03-19081
Asiatic Democracy	16-03-19081
Charter or No Charter	16-03-19081
The Warning from Madras	17-03-19081
The Need of the Moment	c. 18/19-03-19081
The Early Indian Polity	20-03-19081
The Fund for Sj. Pal	21-03-19081
The Weapon of Secession	23-03-19081
Sleeping Sirkar and Waking People	23-03-19081
Anti-Swadeshi in Madras	23-03-19081
Exclusion or Unity?	24-03-19081
Biparita Buddhi	24-03-1908N
Oligarchy or Democracy?	25-03-19081
Freedom of Speech	26-03-19081
The Comedy of Repression	26-03-1908N
Tomorrow's Meeting	27-03-19081
Well Done, Chidambaram!	27-03-19081
The Anti-Swadeshi Campaign	27-03-19081
Spirituality and Nationalism	28-03-19081
The Struggle in Madras	30-03-19081
A Misunderstanding	30-03-19081
The Next Step	31-03-19081
A Strange Expectation	31-03-1908N
A Prayer	31-03-1908N
India and the Mongolian	01-04-19081
Religion and the Bureaucracy	01-04-19081
The Milk of Putana	01-04-19081
Oligarchy Rampant	02-04-1908N
The Question of the President	03-04-19081
Convention and Conference	04-04-19081
By the Way	04-04-19081
The Constitution of the Subjects Committee	06-04-19081
The New Ideal	07-04-19081
The “Indu” and the Dhulia Conference	08-04-1908N
The Asiatic Role	09-04-19081
Love Me or Die	09-04-19081
The Work Before Us	10-04-19081
Campbell-Bannerman Retires	10-04-19081
United Congress: Speech	10-04-19081
The Demand of the Mother	11-04-19081
Baruipur Speech	12-04-19081
Peace and Exclusion	13-04-19081
Indian Resurgence and Europe	14-04-19081
Om Shantih	14-04-19081
Conventionalist and Nationalist	18-04-19081
The Future and the Nationalists	22-04-19081
The Wheat and the Chaff	23-04-19081
Party and the Country	24-04-19081
The "Bengalee" Facing-Both-Ways	24-04-19081
Providence and Perorations	24-04-1908N
The One Thing Needful	25-04-19081
Palli Samiti	26-04-19081
New Conditions	29-04-19081
Whom to Believe?	29-04-19081
By the Way: The Parable of Sati	29-04-19081
Leaders and a Conscience	30-04-19081
An Ostrich in Colootola	30-04-19081
I Cannot Join	30-04-1908N
By the Way	30-04-19081
Ideals Face to Face	01-05-1908(?)1
The New Nationalism	1907 / 19081
Bibliographical Note	-

During the history of publication of Sri Aurobindo’s works, their texts were modified here and there — sometimes by elementary misprints, but more often because of the hard work of editors, who:

(1) discovered and encrypted unprinted manuscripts or their parts (this was a best part of what they could do);

(2) corrected previous misprints or unsound modifications (a sound part of their work);

(3) corrected Sri Aurobondo’s factual or grammatical inexactnesses or mistakes or grammatical characteristics (i.e. s / z) (what would be appropriate only in footnotes, but not in the text itself);

(4) made innumerable “improvements” of the texts, when original words were replaced by more “appropriate” ones; articles changed most freely; the tenses of verbs and the singular and plural of nouns were often modified (and all these “improvements” deform in some degree — even if in hardly notable — the meaning, intonation, nuance, manner, style and therefore are inadmissible; and, after all, we need Sri Aurobindo’s words, not editor’s);

(5) combined (using sometimes invented insertions or modifying texts) different texts (or some parts of them) as if it were one solid work (this also deforms meaning and context of originals and often brings strange feeling when one style or tone is strangely jumped to another. It would be too licentious even in someone’s work based on Sri Aurobindo’s writings, but it is absolutely inadmissible in a book pretended to be a collection of HIS works);

(6) cut off parts of the texts (especially of the letters) under pretext that they are not of “general interest” — although, rather, to fit the remains to a subject of a book or its section (and this is the most disgusting spoilage and uncorrectable and grievous loss).

So now we have Sri Aurobondo’s works with varied places — when one of variants, perhaps, is authentic, while other — not quite. May be some day we will see realy Complite Works of Sri Aurobindo without prenominate defects. But now, what can we do, when we have not originals at hand to check alternatives against them?

(1) Sometimes we can correct situation No 5 — i.e. separate different texts, joined together.

(2) Sometimes we can correct situation No 6 — whenever we find full version, we can provide fragment of the text by footnote with full version or even replace this fragment by full version.

(3) We can evince most of the cases of situations Nos 3 and 4. For this purpose we compared the texts of different editions and provide differing places with appropriate footnotes in our files. (By the way, this symbol by symbol comparison allowed us also to avoid misprints of scanning and OCR procedures.) And when this comparison does not make us sure which variant is authentic, we, at least, become aware of the fact and details of such variations.

To distinguish numerous footnotes of this kind we used special style: (1) colour of numbers of footnotes are dark red; (2) when cursor is placed over differing piece, its background is changed to light red (also it allows readers to compare easily differing place in a text with a pop-up hint that contains alternative variant).

During this comparison, to avoid overloading of the texts by footnotes, we ignored differences of register, punctuation, paragraphs, variants of languages or transliterations of the same word (for example, in one edition the word is printed in English transliteration, in another – in Devanagari), sometimes — variants of proper names (especially solid or separate spelling). Also we did not made any footnotes in cases of distinct misprints — just corrected them.

In the footnotes of every file we added a link to another edition of current work (if it exists).

In the Contents above, opposite every work (to the right) we indicated compared edition:

² The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: Set in 37 volumes.- Volume 36.- Sri Aurobindo. Autobiographical Notes and Other Writings of Historical Interest.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2006.- 612 p.

^N This work was not reprinted in the CWSA and it was not compared with other editions.

AVAILABLE EDITIONS:
►	Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Vol. 1 Sri Aurobindo. Bande Mataram: Early Political Writings. 1890 - May 1908 // Sri Aurobindo Birth Century Library: Set in 30 volumes.- Volume 1.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1973.- 920 p.
	The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: Set in 37 volumes. Vol. 6-7 Sri Aurobindo. Bande Mataram: Political Writings and Speeches. 1890–1908 // The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo: Set in 37 volumes.– Volumes 6-7.- Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 2002.- 1182 p.

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NOTE The articles in this Volume are not an index of Sri Aurobindo's later views on the leading problems of the day. His views had undergone a great change with the development of his consciousness and knowledge. The latest views of Sri Aurobindo on these problems appear in Volume 15 : "Social and Political Thought".