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\n\t\t\tPublisher's Note<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t <\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSri Aurobindo
\nlaunched the Karmayogin<\/i>, "A Weekly Review of National Religion,
\nLiterature, Science, Philosophy, &c.," on<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\t19 June 1909, six weeks after his release from jail on conclusion of the Alipore Bomb Trial. Between then and February 1910,<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\twhen he left Calcutta, he edited this journal, writing most of its contents himself. In addition to articles on political and related<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tmatters, the Karmayogin <\/i>contained essays on philosophy, yoga, education, art and literature, as well as translations and poetry.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tThe political articles are published in this volume, the other items are listed at the end of the
\nKarmayogin <\/i>issue they appeared in.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\t
\n\t\t\tA table at the end of the volume shows where these other items are
\n\t\t\tpublished in <\/font>
\n\t\t\tTHE COMPLETE
\n\t\t\tWORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO<\/font>.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSri Aurobindo delivered a number of speeches between May and October 1909. Texts of some of them were published in the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\t
\nKarmayogin <\/font> <\/i>and other journals. Others were preserved only in notes jotted down by police agents. The speeches are pub<\/font><\/font>lished in this volume according to date of delivery and not of publication.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tSome of the articles included in this volume were published in booklets brought out between 1918 and 1923 and later<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\treprinted. When a revised edition of one of these booklets was published in 1937, a disciple of Sri Aurobindo’s wrote a review<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof it that he sent to Sri Aurobindo for approval. Sri Aurobindo’s response gives some idea of his attitude at that time towards his<\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tearlier writings: <\/font>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\tYes, I have seen it [the disciple’s review], but I don’t<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>think it can be published in its present form as it prolongs the political Aurobindo of that time into the Sri<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>Aurobindo of the present time. You even assert that I have “thoroughly” revised the book and these articles<\/font> 
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>are an index of my latest views on the burning problems of the day and there has been no change in my<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>views in 27 years (which would surely be proof [of] a rather unprogressive mind). How do you get all that? My<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>spiritual consciousness and knowledge at that time was as nothing to what it is now
\n\t\t\t\t\u2013how would the change<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>leave my view of politics and life unmodified altogether? There has been no such thorough revision; I have left the<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>book as it was, because it would be useless to modify what was written so long ago
\n\t\t\t\t\u2013the same as with Yoga<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>and its objects [The Yoga and Its Objects<\/i>]. Anyway the review would almost amount to a proclamation of my<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>present political views
\n\t\t\t\t\u2013while on the contrary I have been careful to pronounce nothing
\n\t\t\t\t\u2013no views whatever<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font>on political questions for the last I don’t know how many years.<\/font>
\n\t\t\t\t<\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tThe bulk
\n\t\t\tof the contents of the present volume was first published in book-form in 1972 as
\n\t\t\t<\/font>
\nKarmayogin: Early Political<\/font><\/i><\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\t
\nWritings -II<\/font><\/i>, volume 2 of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. The text of the present edition, the first with the title<\/font><\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\t
\nKarmayogin: Political Writings and Speeches 1909 \u00ad 1910<\/font><\/i>, has been checked against the
\nKarmayogin <\/i>journal and the sources<\/font><\/font>
\n\t\t\t<\/font>\t\t\tof the speeches and revised articles.<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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