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\n\t\t\tIncomplete Life Sketches <\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tIncomplete Life Sketch in Outline Form, c. 1922 <\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBorn 1872. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSent to England for education 1879. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tStudied at St Paul’s School, London, and King’s College, Cambridge. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tReturned to India. February, 1893. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tLife of preparation at Baroda 1893 \u00ad 1906 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPolitical life \u2014 1902 \u00ad 1910<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t[The “Swadeshi” movement prepared from 1902 \u00ad 5 and
\nstarted definitely by Sri Aurobindo, Tilak, Lajpatrai and others in 1905. A movement for Indian independence, by non-cooperation and passive resistance and the organisation (under a national Council or Executive, but this did not materialise,)
\nof arbitration, national education, economic independence, (especially handloom industry including the spinning-wheel,
\nbut also the opening of mills, factories and Swadeshi business concerns under Indian management and with Indian capital,)
\nboycott of British goods, British law-courts, and all Government institutions, offices, honours etc. Mahatma Gandhi’s noncooperation movement was a repetition of the “Swadeshi”, but with an exclusive emphasis on the spinning-wheel and the
\ntransformation of passive resistance, (“Satyagraha”) from a political means into a moral and religious dogma of soul-force and
\nconquest by suffering. The running of the daily paper, “Bande Mataram”, was only one of Sri Aurobindo’s political activities.]1<\/font><\/sup> <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tImprisonment \u2014 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThrice prosecuted; first for
\n\t\t\tsedition and acquitted <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tthen in 1908 along with his brother <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tBarindra,
\n\t\t\t(one of the chief leaders of the revolutionary movement)<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t1 The square brackets are Sri Aurobindo’s. \u2014 Ed.<\/i>
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\n\t\t\ton a charge of conspiracy to wage war against the
\nestablished Government. Acquitted after a year’s detention as an under-trial prisoner, mostly in a solitary cell<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tlast; in his absence in 1910, for sedition. This case also failed on appeal. <\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter 1909 carried on the political (Swadeshi) movement alone (the other leaders being in prison or in exile) for one
\nyear. Afterwards on receiving an inner intimation left politics for spiritual lifework. The intimation was that the Swadeshi
\nmovement must now end and would be followed later on by a Home Rule movement and a Non-cooperation movement of the
\nGandhi type, under other leaders. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tCame to Pondicherry 1910. <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStarted the “Arya”. 1914 <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tFragmentary Life Sketch, c. 1928
\n\t\t\t<\/a> <\/b><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tAurobindo was born on August 15th, 1872, in Calcutta. His father, a man of great ability and strong personality, had been
\namong the first to go to England for his education. He returned entirely Anglicised in habits, ideas and ideal,
\n\u2014 so strongly that
\nAurobindo as a child spoke English and Hindustani only and learned his mother tongue only after his return from England. He
\nwas determined that his children should receive an entirely European upbringing. While in India they were sent for the beginning
\nof their education to an Irish nuns’ school in Darjeeling and in 1879 he took his three sons to England and placed them with an
\nEnglish clergyman and his wife with strict instructions that they should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indian
\nor undergo any Indian influence. These instructions were carried out to the letter and Aurobindo grew up in entire ignorance of
\nIndia, her people, her religion and her culture.   <\/p>\n

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