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\nNOTE <\/font> <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nVolume 4 in the SRI <\/font>AUROBINDO <\/font>BIRTH
\n<\/font>CENTENARY <\/font>LIBRARY <\/font>contains
\nSri Aurobindo’s original Bengali writings.<\/p>\n

\nSri Aurobindo started learning Bengali, his mother tongue, in
\nEngland, as a probationer for the Indian Civil Service. After his
\nreturn to India he began a serious study of the language with a view
\nto acquiring proficiency in reading, writing and speaking. During
\nhis stay at Baroda he wrote some poetry in Bengali, attempting even
\na long poem called "Usha-Haran Kabya". A few lines from this
\nwork are reproduced here for the first time.<\/p>\n

\nIt is to this poem that his brother, Manmohan, himself a poet,
\nrefers in his letter to Rabindranath Tagore, dated October 24, 1894.
\nWe quote from it the following extract:<\/p>\n

\n"Aurobindo is anxious to know what you think of his book of
\nverses\u00b9<\/font>, but I have explained to him how busy you are just now; and
\nthat you will write later when you have a little more leisure to do justice to
\nhis book. I myself think that he is possessed of considerable powers of language and a real literary gift, \u2014 but is lacking in
\nstuff and matter, perhaps in warmth of temperament. But those
\npieces on Parnell\u00b2<\/font>, consisting of fine philosophic reflection, show,
\nI think, that he might do great things. Unfortunately he has directed
\n(or rather misdirected) all his energies to writing Bengali poetry. He is at present engaged on an epic (inspired I believe by Michael
\nMadhusudan) on the subject of Usha and Aniruddha."<\/p>\n

\nHe wrote several articles for the earlier issues of Yugantar<\/i>, a
\nBengali revolutionary weekly started by his brother Barin and others
\nunder his guidance in March 1906. But not a single copy of this
\njournal has so far been traced.<\/p>\n

\nThe earliest available Bengali writings of Sri Aurobindo besides
\n"Usha-Haran Kabya" are the three letters to his wife Mrinalini Devi
\nwritten between 1905 and 1907. These were produced as exhibits
\nin the Alipore Conspiracy Case in 1908, and having attracted public
\nnotice were reproduced in various journals and in book-form soon
\nafterwards.<\/p>\n

\nAfter his acquittal in 1909 Sri Aurobindo started a Bengali weekly
\ncalled Dharma, and wrote most of the editorial comments and leading<\/p>\n

\n____________________<\/p>\n

\n\u00b9<\/font>S<\/font>ONGS TO
\n<\/font>M<\/font>YRTILLA <\/font>published a year later, in 1895.
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\u00b2<\/font>Charles Stewart Parnell (1891<\/i>) and
\nHic facet <\/i>(Centenary Volume 5, pp. 15, 11). <\/font><\/p>\n

\n

\narticles for it until his withdrawal to Chandernagore in February
\n1910. Most of these leading articles were published in book-form
\nin 1920 under the title DHARMA <\/font>O JATIYATA
\n<\/font>by Prabartak Publishing
\nHouse, Chandernagore. In the present volume these articles are
\narranged under two sections, "Dharma" and "Jatiyata" (Religion
\nand Nationalism). The editorial comments from Dharma <\/i>are published here in a separate section for the first time.<\/p>\n

\nSome of the articles on the. Gita from Dharma <\/i>were separately
\nbrought out in book-form in 1920 by the Prabartak Sangha under
\nthe title GITAR <\/font>BHUMIKA<\/font>.<\/p>\n

\nKARAKAHINI <\/font>(Tales of Prison Life) was first serialised in nine
\nparts in the Bengali monthly, Suprabhat<\/i> in 1909-1910. This series
\nremained incomplete as Sri Aurobindo left Bengal in 1910. The essay,
\n"Karagriha O Swadhinata" (Prison and Freedom), was published
\nin Bharati<\/i>, a Bengali journal, about the same time. KARAKAHINI
\n<\/font>came
\nout in book-form in 1920 from Chandernagore.<\/p>\n

\nIn 1918 Sri Aurobindo wrote "Jagannather Rath" (the Chariot of
\nJagannath) for Prabartak<\/i>, a journal published from Chandernagore.
\nThe article was published in book-form in 1921 along with some
\nothers under the same title by the Prabartak Publishing House.<\/p>\n

\nHis letter to Barin, also known as "Letter from Pondicherry",
\nwritten in 1920 was first published in Narayana<\/i>, a journal edited by
\nC. R. Das. It was also issued as a booklet in the same year and later
\nalong with "Letters to Mrinalini" under the title SRI
\n<\/font>AUROBINDER <\/font>PATRA <\/font>(Letters of Sri Aurobindo) by the Prabartak Publishing
\nHouse.<\/p>\n

\nA number of articles on the Vedas, Upanishads and other subjects found in Sri Aurobindo’s manuscripts were first put together
\nin book-form in 1955 under the title VIVIDHA <\/font>RACHANA<\/font>. In this
\nvolume they have been distributed in various sections.<\/p>\n

\nThe letters Sri Aurobindo wrote to some women disciples who
\ndid not know English were published as PATRAWALI <\/font>in two parts, the
\nfirst in 1951 and the second in 1959.<\/p>\n

\nThe original sources of all articles are indicated in the Table
\nof Contents.
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