Sri Aurobindo

Autobiographical Notes

and Other Writings of Historical Interest

Part One. Autobiographical Notes

2. Sri Aurobindo’s corrections of statements in a proposed biography

Political Life, 1893–1910

The Indu Prakash Articles [2]

[New Lamps for Old, the series of articles he published in the Indu Prakash, was on Indian civilisation.]

This title did not refer to Indian civilisation but to Congress politics¹. It is not used in the sense of the Aladdin story, but was intended to imply the offering of new lights to replace the old and faint reformist lights of the Congress.

¹ 1973 ed. Vol. 1: The title refers to Congress politics.

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