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\nThe Renaissance in India
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\nA Defence of Indian Culture<\/font><\/p>\n

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\nVOLUME 20<\/b>
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\nTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO<\/b>
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\n\u00a9 Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust 1997
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\nPublished by Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
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\nPrinted at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry
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\nPRINTED IN INDIA
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\nMost of the essays that make up this volume have appeared
\n until now under the title
\nThe Foundations of Indian Culture<\/i>.
\n That title was not Sri Aurobindo’s. It was first used when those
\n essays were published as a book in New York in 1953.
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\n\tThe present volume consists of three series of essays and one
\n single essay, published in the monthly review
\nArya <\/i>as follows: <\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Renaissance in India<\/i>, August \u00ad November 1918. <\/p>\n

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\n\tIndian Culture and
\n\tExternal Influence<\/i>, March 1919. <\/p>\n

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\n\t“Is India Civilised?”<\/i>, December 1918 \u00ad February 1919. <\/p>\n

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\n\tA Defence of Indian Culture<\/i>, February 1919 \u00ad January 1921. <\/p>\n

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\n\tSri Aurobindo revised the four essays making up
\nThe Renaissance in India <\/i>and published them as a booklet in 1920. He
\n later revised
\n“Is India Civilised?” <\/i>and the first eight and a half
\n chapters of
\nA Defence of Indian Culture<\/i>. These revised chapters
\n were not published during his lifetime. In 1947 some of the
\n later chapters of
\nA Defence of Indian Culture<\/i>, lightly revised,
\n were published in two booklets. The four essays on Indian art
\n appeared as
\nThe Significance of Indian Art <\/i>and the four essays
\n on Indian polity as
\nThe Spirit and Form of Indian Polity<\/i>. The rest
\n of the series was only sporadically revised. When its publication
\n was proposed to him in 1949, Sri Aurobindo replied:
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\n\tThe Defence of Indian Culture is an unfinished book and
\n also I had intended to alter much of it and to omit all
\n but brief references to William Archer’s criticisms. That
\n was why its publication has been so long delayed. Even
\n if it is reprinted as it is considerable alterations will have
\n to be made and there must be some completion and an
\n end to the book which does not at present exist. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tThe desired alterations were never made.
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\n\tThe text of the present edition has been checked against the <\/p>\n

Arya <\/i>and the revised versions.
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\n\tA number of photographic reproductions of Indian architecture, sculpture and painting have been included to illustrate
\n references in the text.
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