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... that of a centralised government whose natural function is to create and ensure a uniform administration. A central government is necessary to every aggregate which seeks to arrive at an organic unity of its political and economic life. Although nominally or to begin with this central government may be only an organ created by several States that still claim to be sovereign within their own borders,... the original constitution, or if the American policy of aloofness from foreign affairs and complications had not removed the pressure of those necessities that in other nations have aided the central government to engross all real power and convert itself into the source as well as the head or centre of national activities. The traditional policy of the United States, its pacificism, its anti-militarism ...

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... welcomed by the Government of India as a "concrete effort at creating international understanding". However, soon after the Mother died in 1973, "unhappy developments overtook this project" and the Central Government was forced to take over temporarily the management of Auroville from the Sri Aurobindo Society and others. The properties relating to Auroville currently owned by Sri Aurobindo Society and... proposed legislation, assets created by Sri Aurobindo Society through donations would become the responsibility of the Foundation. There would be an International Advisory Council to advise the Central Government and the Governing Board of the Foundation on matters concerning development and Management of Auroville. The Management of the Foundation would vest in a governing body constituted by the Government... body, in order to secure future development of Auroville in accordance with its original Charter. On the basis of this Act, the Auroville Foundation came into force in February 1991 when the Central Government nominated the members of the Government Board. Auroville Organisation is composed by three important factors: 1) International Advisory Council 2) The Governing Board 3) Working Committee ...

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... situation Churchill announced in March 1942 that he would be sending Sir Stafford Cripps to India as his personal envoy to negotiate with the Congress and Muslim leaders so that a responsible Central Government could be formed to mobilise Indian resources for fighting the Japanese. He also offered to create a new Indian Union with Dominion Status and with a constitution to be framed by India's own ... the Cripps offer presented a great opportunity which, if taken, would lead India to both freedom and unity — mark that he uses both these words in his message to Cripps. He considered that a Central Government in which Hindus and Muslims worked together with a common objective, aligning India firmly against the anti-divine forces, would reduce the tension between the two communities and lead to cooperation... ' On July 9, 1950, Sri Aurobindo gave an interview to K.M. Munshi, an eminent politician and interpreter of Indian culture, who had been his student at Baroda and was now a Minister in the Central Government. Recalling the meeting Munshi wrote: 'When I visited Sri Aurobindo in 1950, after a lapse of more than forty years, I saw before me a being completely transformed, blissful, enveloped in an ...

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... hot tension between Bavaria and the central Government, and the catastrophic state of the finances and the economy with the resulting riots and unemployment, it is no wonder that Sebastian Haffner writes: “In the autumn of 1923 the German Reich was on the verge of political extinction.” 211 Joachim Fest is of the same opinion: “The harassed [central] government might well see the events in Munich as ...

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... of my aims". He moved into a half-built convent, still swarming with masons and carpenters. There were many difficulties. Not only was he considered as a representative of a highly unpopular central government, he was a Protestant in a predominantly Catholic area. He had hardly settled when the children began to arrive. Soon there were eighty, some from good families, some destitute, a number of them... 2 Up to 1803, the experiment was a success, with more than seventy pupils taught by twenty assistants. But a change in the Swiss political scene cost Pestalozzi the support of the central government, and he was soon asked to vacate the castle. He found alternative accommodation in an empty convent at Munchenbuchsee, not far from the institute and experimental farm of another educational ...

... to create a new Indian Union with a Dominion Constitution to be framed by India's own representatives after the War. In the meantime, the Indian leaders were invited to join a responsible Central Government and help the allied war effort. When presently Sir Stafford Cripps arrived in India to work out the details of an Indo-British concord, Sri Aurobindo extended an open welcome to him on 31 ... and that was enough for the Congress leaders! Since Britain's was quite obviously the losing side, why then rush to its support? The Congress thus shied away from the invitation to join the Central Government. Divine wisdom was cavalierly vetoed by short-sighted political calculation, the proffered Grace was spurned, and the possibility of a free and united India was jeopardised irreparably. ...

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... that power would be transferred in India in default of one Central Government, in some areas to the existing Provincial Governments, made it imperative for the League to capture power and to establish its own Government in the Punjab at all costs, so that such a Government should be able to receive power independently of a Central Government of India; (c) The "Victory Day" of Mar. 2, 1947,... without the approval of the Muslim League stiffened its attitude. It passed a resolution stating that any fresh declaration, which affected the demand for Pakistan or proceeded on the basis of a Central Government with India as one single unit and Mussulmans as an all-India minority would be strongly resented by the Muslims. The Muslim Press rang with cries such as: "Pakistan is our demand and by God we ...

... before), amusing little details: now the last member of the government of India has been converted, so to speak. All the members of government (the central government—I don't mean the whole country, but of the centre), all the members of the central government are ... (what should I say?) I could almost say "apprentice disciples of Sri Aurobindo," with a great goodwill to serve. And everywhere, everywhere ...

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... Hindus and Muslims, thinking they will also join. SRI AUROBINDO: All joined against the monument? But his friend Huque arrested him. NIRODBARAN: I thought it was the Central Government. SRI AUROBINDO: The Central Government doesn't care about the monument. When Bose said that he would start Satyagraha, he was arrested by Huque. Huque says he is not going to be compelled by anything or any movement ...

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... from January 1939 up to the time of the declaration of war. Before the war was declared the greatest danger to the Muslims of India was the possible inauguration of the federal scheme in the central Government. We know what machinations were going on. But the Muslim League was stoutly resisting them in every direction. We felt that we could never accept the dangerous scheme of the central federal ... the Portuguese and the Spanish stand divided in the Iberian Peninsula. Whereas under the plea of unity of India and one nation which does not exist, it is sought to pursue here the line of one central government when we know that the history of the last 12 hundred years has failed to achieve unity and has witnessed, during these ages, India always divided into Hindu India and Muslim India. The present ...

... partial harmony, but only a predominance and for the rest an unstable equilibrium of a personality half formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our real centre. For the true central ...

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... the result will be a process analogous in principle, with whatever necessary differences in the manner or form or extent of execution, to that by which in the building of the nation-State the central government, first as a monarchy, then as a democratic assembly and executive, gathered up the whole administration of the national life. There will be a centralisation of all control, military and police ...

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... themselves to the political temperament and ideas of the governing classes. 4 If a World-State were to be established on the present basis of human society, it might well try to develop its central government on this principle. But the present is a moment of transition and a bourgeois World-State is not a probable consummation. In each of the more progressive nations, the dominance of the middle ...

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... in Germany. It will do so in India. But geographical compactness is also necessary. In other words, the desh or country must be so compact that mutual communication and the organisation of a central government becomes easy or, at least, not prohibitively difficult. The absence of such compactness is the reason why great Empires are sure in the end to fall to pieces; they cannot get the support of that ...

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... × Incident at Kashipur. × A minister in the Central government, and, at the time, a friend of Indira Gandhi. × We give in addendum an account of N.S.'s ...

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... it always to the goal of Light and Peace and unity and Ananda." × A former minister of the Central government, S. K. Patil. ...

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... Centre of Education, Pondicherry, as equivalent to the First Degree of a recognised Indian University (i.e. B.A. or B.Sc.) for purposes of appointment to services and posts under the Central Government." SAICE would thus have its own autonomy as regards the courses of study and its own specific way of assessment of the academic worth of its students when they completed their studies there. ...

... made available where either there are no teachers or where there are only absentee teachers. For girl children, the State must make necessary provisions for providing incentives — such as the Central Government has recently decided to do — but in a much bigger way. People must also contribute their share by creating a big movement that would inspire every partner in education to contribute to the r ...

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... My friend Madhav has often paid me a compliment, telling me that I'm an effusive Bengali, but I'm afraid that's not me. Well, this is what happened: you know that, some time ago, several Central Government Commissions were coming to assess our Education Centre, 96 and it was a point with me whether to attend those functions or not. I thought: what's the use? All stale, academic questions in ...

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... destiny brought him back. After this, there were minor troubles, and complaints were made to the Mother against him, she paid no heed to them. But the threat came from an unexpected quarter: the Central Government sent an order that all the refugees had to go back. This was a thunderbolt for the entire family. Now the Mother took up the charge and directed Counouma, the Manager of the Ashram, to try all ...

... the whole of Pakistan. In fact there are strong indications that the constituent elements of Pakistan - Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan and NWFP — are demanding separation and independence from the Central Government of Pakistan. It seems clear that as they begin to feel more strongly the centrifugal pull, they will stand up to the Army rule; the inevitable result will the beginning of the disintegration ...

... serving as magistrate in the district of Etawah at the time of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he was assigned to the board of revenue in the North-Western Provinces. From 1870-79 he was attached to the central government of India as secretary in the revenue and agriculture department. His views favouring greater participation for Indians in Indian affairs created difficulties, and he was returned to provincial ...

... These decisions were then carried out by professional "secretaries" at the head of organized bureaucracies. In the provinces, the intendants more and more represented the direct authority of the central government in justice, finance, and general administration. The old French monarchy imposed its authority through judicial decisions and had frequently consulted local and central assemblies. The new monarchy ...

... July 1991, when the CBI did not want to proceed further. The third case was for alleged criminal breach of trust in respect of more than fifteen lakhs of rupees of Government grants. The Central Government and several States had given more than seventy lakhs as grants for construction of Bharat Nivas (cultural pavilions) at Auroville. The CBI found that all the grant monies had been recorded as ...

... partial harmony, but only a predominance and for the rest an unstable equilibrium of a personality half formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our real centre. The Life ...

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... could have had), of course the secretaries and heads of departments who represented her in the Ashram organization, ministers and high-ranked functionaries of the diverse Indian states and the Central Government, heads of state and religious leaders … The whole world passed by her there in that room on the second floor, where her chair was always turned towards Sri Aurobindo’s Samadhi — in that room ...

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... there are some scattered bits of Pondicherrian territory. Plots of land had to be bought. The establishment of the international city had to be discussed with the government of Tamil Nadu and the central government in New Delhi. UNESCO was asked to recognize the project, and it did so. The first constructions arose on the barren soil, candidates for becoming the first Aurovillians wrote letters to the Mother ...

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... history. On 11 February 1965 the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was attacked by a Pondicherrian mob incited by certain powers behind the scenes. The apparent reason was the imposition of Hindi by the Central Government on the whole of India. Linguistically India is divided into two parts: the northern part, by far the largest, where all languages are direct derivations of Sanskrit and Hindi is a kind of lingua ...

... obliteration of the Munich Republic of Councils, an officer appeared in the city who was to play an important part in the making of Adolf Hitler: Staff Captain Karl Mayr. It was the intention of the central government in Berlin as well as of the Army High Command to wipe out all leftist indoctrination in the minds of the soldiers and to replace it with correct patriotic, nationalist ideas. To this end an ...

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... to further intensify the confrontation with the Weimar Republic and declared Bavaria “a stronghold of threatened Germanhood”. The Bavarian army had to swear an oath not to the constitutional central government but to the State. The triumvirate justified most of its rebellious actions as measures against the communist threat in adjacent Thuringia, but nobody doubted that they were planning another rightist ...

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... the Matrimandir office had been closed by the police, but still a group of Aurovilians continued their work quietly without intervention of the police. Aurovilians hoped to seek help from the Central Government, Delhi. I heard too about the terrible tussle between Shyamsunder and Aurovilians, so that he could not go to his house near the Matrimandir without escorts, also about the dissatisfaction and ...

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... people with good will suggested to me: "Huta, since the Mother wished and visioned your guardianship at the Matrimandir, why don't you meet the concerned people and the top officials of the Central Government for your right?" I was very much amused, and answered: "The people concerned and the top officials have not appointed me the guardian of the Matrimandir. It was the Supreme Lord who made ...

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... partial harmony, but only a predominance and for the rest an unstable equilibrium of a personality half formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our Page 933 real centre ...

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... 2) Movement towards the arrangement of funds. 3) Affairs in Mexico. Retreat of Villa & quarrel with Carranza. 4) Progress of events in China—eg subsidence of White Wolf, strength of central government, successful collection of the Provincial revenues. 5) Progress towards peace between Greece & Turkey. Samadhi The force of organised vision & experience has increased. Dream is always ...

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... Among the young. It's not impossible. Page 165 We'll see. At any rate, they are conscious.... A considerable number of ministers, generals, governors (even ministers of the Central Government) are writing, not positively to ask for advice, but to ask for Help. They're not asking for advice yet (and on the external level you can't give detailed advice, you can only give general ideas) ...

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... 2 I didn't know he had said that.... I don't know if it's very wise to say it.... But it's very true. We should send it to the government of India. N.S. [a minister in the Central government] is coming, I'll give it to her. But not in the Bulletin . And Indira Gandhi, wouldn't you send it to her? ...... Page 215 ...

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... your work in the government." And quite resolute. A young man, about forty, I think, and rather strong. 2 From Madras? No, no, from here, Pondicherry. But I saw others, from the central government. And they don't come out of curiosity or casually, they come because they really feel the need for something. So perhaps we'll be able to do something.... We'll see. ( Mother comes ...

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... the French consul is with them. Yes, of course! Last evening there was a meeting of 2,000 people—with inflammatory speeches against the Ashram, against the university, and against the central government because the government is in favor of the university. Humanity is really petty. Oh, yes! It has descended very, very low. Sri Aurobindo!... For them Sri Aurobindo is a "foreigner" ...

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... again on the 18th, the day after this conversation, the president of India, V.V. Giri, in a press interview in which he was spiritedly asked why he still had not recognized Bangladesh, said, "The central government is studying the question whether recognition should be granted to Bangladesh." Then he added, "Our sympathy is with the people of Bangladesh. It is up to the Prime Minister [Indira] and the central ...

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... universal and eternal values, oriented towards the unity and integration of our people." NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF ACTION (POA) For the first time, in the history of free India, the Central Government had Page 368 pledged itself to a Programme of Action (POA, August 1986) as a follow-up measure to make the NPE successful. POA, to my mind, is a unique national document of ...

... other public and private organisations in order to determine means by which enhancement of their effectiveness and co-ordination may be facilitated; (b) study of ways and means by which the Central Government, State Governments, and local bodies can more adequately support lifelong learning activities; (c) support research and experimentation, including review of existing major foreign lifelong ...

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... without the approval of the Muslim League stiffened its attitude. It passed a resolution stating that any fresh declaration, which affected the demand for Pakistan or proceeded on the basis of a Central Government with India as one single unit and 'Mussulmans' as an all-India minority would be strongly resented by the Muslims. The Muslim Press rang with cries such as: 'Pakistan is our demand and by God ...

... serving as magistrate in the district of Etawah at the time of the Indian Mutiny of 1857, he was assigned to the board of revenue in the North-Western Provinces. From 1870-79 he was attached to the central government of India as secretary in the revenue and agriculture department. His views favouring greater participation for Indians in Indian affairs created difficulties, and he was returned to provincial ...

... he was going, what solution he had in mind. I told him on this occasion that in my view, Jinnah and the Muslim League would be willing to accept even a truncated Pakistan rather than go into a central Government. He seized upon the point right away. I left him feeling that he had come to India armed with plenipotentiary powers and if the parties were not able to come together, the decision would ultimately ...

... representative of the whole nation. In modern times, the race factor is losing its importance due to the phenomenon of globalization and increased communication. However geography, economics, and a central government that is representative of the whole nation play a very important role in bringing about political unity. It must be noted that in the Indian subcontinent, before the Muslim invasion ...

... the India Office and a diehard. Lord Minto, as the Viceroy, there was always room for difference of opinion, at least on questions of detail. And even in India, the Government of Bengal and the central Government didn't always see eye to eye as regards the pace of repression or the intended victims. It was often a question of timing or the permissible limits of risk, but of course reason and logic and ...

... lines, without external interferences, and at the same time protected from such interferences. The government takeover was the only formula for cutting off the S.A.S. s tentacles. This central government takeover would have been a poor gain if, again, Auroville were not protected from the new machinery. Indiraji and a few others have devoted considerable time and attention to the problem and ...

... create a new India Union with a Dominion Constitution to be framed by India's own representatives after the war. In the meantime, Indian leaders were invited to participate in a responsible Central Government and help the Allies to prosecute the war to the point of victory. Presently, Sir Stafford Cripps came to India to work out the details, and on 31 March 1942, Sri Aurobindo openly welcomed ...

... brutality and the evidence of eye-witnesses who have seen the condition to which he was reduced, do not encourage us to reject these reports as fabrications. Finally, the refusal of the Central Provinces Government to face independent medical inspection and so dispose of the serious allegations publicly preferred put a very ugly aspect on this case. If the allegations are true, they amount to a treatment... liberated nation by means of a Boycott which would have alarmed into reason a stronger Government than that of Athens. And as strength, when firm and able, can never be ignored, it has secured the sympathy of the Powers in the shape of concessions which would never have been yielded to a weak or overcautious Government. Strength attracts strength; firm and clear-minded courage commands success and respect;... c supporters of Indian self-government. It is only political necessity and the practical recognition that change is inevitable which can convert the statesmen of England. As for the opinion of the civilised world, we do not despise it as a moral force. But its practical effect is so little as to be almost nil. In a constitutional question between the present Government in India and the people we do ...

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