All surviving political writings and speeches from 1890 to 1908 including articles originally published in the nationalist newspaper 'Bande Mataram'.
All surviving political writings and speeches from 1890 to 1908. The two volumes consist primarily of 353 articles originally published in the nationalist newspaper 'Bande Mataram' between August 1906 and May 1908. Also included are political articles written by Sri Aurobindo before the start of 'Bande Mataram', speeches delivered by him between 1907 and 1908, articles from his manuscripts of that period that were not published in his lifetime, and an interview of 1908. Many of these writings were not prepared by Sri Aurobindo for publication; several were left in an unfinished state.
Srijukta Aurobindo Ghose pointed out that the University system was defective in its aims and methods intended only to serve the purposes of the Government, not the requirements of the country. It turned out machines for administrative and professional work, not men. The national system of education was intended to create a nation. It must produce men with all their faculties trained, full of patriotism, and mentally, morally, physically the equals of the men of any other nation.
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“Resolution at Bengal Provincial Conference” was moved at the Pabna session of the Provincial Conference on 12 February 1908. A report was published in the Dawn and Dawn Society's Magazine in April 1908. This was included (with an incorrect date) in the 1993 edition of Sri Aurobindo's Speeches. “Speech at the National Education Conference” was delivered at a public meeting in Pabna on 13 February 1908. A report was published in the Bande Mataram daily on 17 February 1908, and reproduced (in a slightly shortened form) in the Dawn and Dawn Society's Magazine in April. That text was reproduced in Sri Aurobindo's Speeches in 1993. In the present volume, the Bande Mataram text is reproduced.
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