Indu Prakash : English-Marathi weekly founded in 1862 under the editorship of R.D. Ranade, then a professor at Elphinstone College. Later the editorship was entrusted to N.G. Chandāvarkar & the English section to K.G. Deshpande.
... in the Indu Prakash, was on Indian civilisation.] This title did not refer to Indian civilisation but to Congress politics. It is not used in the sense of the Aladdin story, but was intended to imply the offering of new lights to replace the old and faint reformist lights of the Congress. It is said that Sri Aurobindo was persuaded to discontinue his contribution to Indu Prakash by the... Corrections of Statements Made in Biographies and Other Publications Autobiographical Notes The Indu Prakash Articles Sri Aurobindo revolved these things in his mind, and read, wrote and thought incessantly. Could not something be done? Could he not find an opportunity for service in the larger life of Bengal,—of the Indian nation itself? He had... Jail Reform, perhaps thinking that this writer would soon have personal experience of jails and thus become an expert on his subject! [ Another version: ] The facts about the articles in the Indu Prakash were these. They were begun at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, who was editor of the paper, but the first two articles made a sensation and frightened Ranade and other ...
... Ghose's articles began appearing in the Indu Prakash, the Congress was a forum of academic discussion by learned leaders at their holiday gatherings ; an airy-fairy annual show of oratorical feats by a sprinkling of the country's intelligentsia; and, of course, a sport of the British diplomacy. K. G. Deshpande, in his introductory article in the Indu Prakash of 7 August 1893, wrote: "We promised... was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came in touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others [revolutionaries]. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash." We fleetingly came across Deshpande in Cambridge. Along with Sri Aurobindo, he was a member of the Indian Majlis there. In The Harmony of Virtue which he wrote while at Page 25 ... Cambridge, Sri Aurobindo named his chief character, Keshav Ganesh, after his college mate. After his return from England, Keshav Ganesh Deshpande settled in Bombay as a barrister. The Indu Prakash had two sections: Marathi and English. K. G. Deshpande was the editor of the English section. He was a Nationalist, he too. "I remember once going to a station to see Deshpande off," recalled Sri ...
... appeared in the Indu Prakash that he wanted to meet the author and a meeting did take place at Bombay. This is what Sri Aurobindo wrote about it in his reminiscences of prison life, Karakahini written in Bengali, from which I give a translation. 'I remembered that fifteen years earlier after returning home from England, I had written some bitterly critical articles in the *Indu * Prakash. Realising... background when Sri Aurobindo returned to India in 1893. Soon after he had settled down at Baroda, Sri Aurobindo was approached by his Cambridge friend, K.G. Deshpande to contribute articles to the Indu Prakash, an English-Marathi weekly, which he was then editing from Bombay. Deshpande was aware of Sri Aurobindo's uncompromising views but he was willing to take the risk of publishing them. Accordingly... what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came into touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash. There I strongly criticised the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so fiery that M.G. Ranade, the great Maratha leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious ...
... that very year, and they met at Bombay. "I remember," wrote Sri Aurobindo in Karakahini {Tales of Prison Life), "when, back home from England fifteen years ago, I started writing articles in the Indu Prakash of Bombay, strongly protesting against the Congress policy of prayers and petition, the late Mahadeo Govind Ranade, seeing how these articles were acting on the minds of the youths, exhorted me... hellish imported practices in a sovereign India. Alas for the tens of thousands of jail inmates rotting in 'free' India. Four months after the last piece of New Lamps for Old appeared in the Indu Prakash, a new series of articles was begun on Bankim Chandra Chatterji 'by a Bengali' who signed himself 'Zero' (and not: Max Theon, the supreme God!). From criticizing the Congress to Bankim the... many European scholars were in the habit of presenting 'Hinduism' as a tangled jungle of gods, ghosts, demons and saints, and other monsters. The articles on Bankim by Zero appeared in the Indu Prakash from 16 July to 27 August 1894. "Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, the creator and King of Bengali prose, was a high-caste Brahman.... Born at Kantalpara on the 27 th June 1838, dead at Calcutta ...
... India in February 1893. Within a few months of his arrival in India, Sri Aurobindo had begun contributing Page 183 anonymously the "New Lamps for Old" articles to the Indu Prakash, and this he could not have done unless these questions had occupied his mind even in England. A reference to these articles has been made already in an earlier chapter and we have seen how penetrating... perhaps, no fortuitous circumstance that, as it were simultaneously, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo - the former at the Parliament of Religions at Chicago, the latter in the columns of the Indu Prakash - should have both made history, shaking complacency, making people think anew, highlighting the importance of self-knowledge, exhorting people, be it the question of "man-making" or nation-building... the Irish peasantry led by the recognised chiefs of an united people. 3 Even when, after this series of incendiary political articles had been discontinued, Sri Aurobindo wrote for the Indu Prakash on a more subdued key a set of seven essays (signed "by a Bengali") on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, although the interest was mainly literary, the political slant too revealed itself sharply, for ...
... Our Bombay contemporary the Indu Prakash is very wroth with the Nationalist party for their want of sweet reasonableness. He accuses them of rowdyism "which would put the East End rowdy to shame," and adds, "Their forte seems to be abuse, vilification, impertinence and superlative silliness, and these are exhibited alternately." It strikes us that the Indu Prakash has been guilty of "abuse, v... thinks that personal attacks and violent outbreaks of temper have no part in English politics. This is indeed a holy simplicity; and it is not for nothing that the Bombay journal calls itself Indu Prakash , "moonshine". It is true, of course, that English politicians do not carry their political wranglings and Page 320 acerbities into social life to anything like the extent that the ...
... Returning to India in February 1893, Sri Aurobindo took up work in the Princely State of Baroda. Later that same year, he began to contribute articles on the Indian National Congress to the Indu Prakash of Bombay. These proved to be too outspoken for the proprietor of this newspaper. Compelled to tone them down, Sri Aurobindo soon lost interest in the project. For the next twelve years he published... Cambridge. New Lamps for Old with India and the British Parliament The ten articles comprising "India and the British Parliament" and were published anonymously in the Indu Prakash , a Marathi - English weekly newspaper of Bombay, in 1893 and 1894. Sri Aurobindo wrote these articles on the invitation of K. G. Page 1165 Deshpande, the editor of the English... consented, but felt no farther interest and the articles were published at long intervals and finally dropped of themselves altogether. "India and the British Parliament". Published in Indu Prakash on 26 June 1893. Under the heading was printed "Communicated" (i.e., from a special correspondent). In the next issue of the newspaper, 3 July 1893, the editor (presumably K. G. Deshpande) referred ...
... destined likewise to be the redeemer of India? IV Soon after his arrival in India, Sri Aurobindo was invited by his Cambridge friend K. G. Deshpande, who was then English editor of the Indu Prakash of Bombay, to write articles on the political situation in the country. These appeared * From Dr. C. R. Reddy's citation before the Andhra University Convocation (11 December 1948) e occasion... articles in the series*, with their white-heat brilliance and uncompromising hammer-blows, caused dismay and indignation in Congress circles, and Mahadev Govind Ranade warned the proprietor of the Indu Prakash that, should the series continue in the same strain, he would be prosecuted for sedition. As requested by the proprietor, the original plan was abandoned, but at K.G. Deshpande's instance the... attention and appreciation, Page 58 even as his 'juvenile' poems do — because their author was Sri Aurobindo. The necessity to tone down the 'New Lamps for Old' articles in the Indu Prakash to the point of pointlessness, doling out doses of the philosophy of politics instead of outlining the rites of sacrificial purification by blood and fire, made Sri Aurobindo withdraw into a ...
... camp. III What were Sri Aurobindo's reactions to the Curzonian decision to partition Bengal? We have seen how, quite ten years earlier in 1893, Sri Aurobindo had exposed in his Indu Prakash articles, albeit anonymously, the shallowness, weakness and puerility of the politics of the Indian National Congress, - the politics of pettifoggery, prayer-mongering and perpetual petitioning... taking political education to the people, and it was equally the leaders educating themselves by getting to know at first hand the quickened pulse of the masses. Sri Aurobindo had written in the Indu Prakash twelve years earlier that "the proletariate is... the real key of the situation. Torpid he is and immobile... but he is a very great potential force, and whoever succeeds in understanding and eliciting... the currents of local tradition and even the hard realities of our economic situation. The result was that it emasculated Indian youth and made them mimic futilities in their own country. In his Indu Prakash articles of 1893-4, Sri Aurobindo had castigated the education of the day and thrown out hints for reform. Once of the Bengali pioneers of the new education was Satish Chandra Mukherjee (1865-1948) ...
... hailed the scaffold with a smile on their lips or suffered torments worse than death without the least flinching...." 47 Sister Nivedita, who had read Sri Aurobindo's fiery articles in the Indu Prakash and heard about him from various sources, saw him for the first time at Baroda, and was immensely impressed by his Yogic bearing, his rock-like calm, his serene poise, vibrating with superhuman... bond in their love of India 49 and of freedom. To Aurobindo Ghosh, Nivedita was the author of Kali, the Mother. To her, he was the leader of the future, 50 whose fiery articles in the Indu Prakash... had sounded opening guns in the coming struggle, four years before. "What he (Sri Aurobindo) was doing was to impart an esoteric significance to the nationalist movement, and make it... Chandra Pal and India's struggle for Swaraj by Prof. Haridas Mukherjee and Prof. Uma Mukherjee. 70. Ibid. Page 210 even as early as 1893-94 in his writings in the Indu Prakash was still conspicuous by its absence in Bepin Chandra. Even in 1903 the latter could not shake off the spell of traditional Congress politics." 71 But a sudden change took place in him ...
... Contributes an article, "India and the British Parliament", to the Indu Prakash, Bombay. August 7 — March 5, 1894 Contributes a series of articles. New Lamps/or Old, to the Indu Prakash. 1894 — July 16-August 27 Contributes a series of articles on Bankim Chandra Chatterji Page 812 to the Indu Prakash. 1895 — Publication of Songs to Myrtilla, a ...
... who were by no means Pacifists or worshippers of Ahimsa. 1 For the first few years in India, Sri Aurobindo abstained from any political activity (except the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash ) and studied the conditions in the country so that he might be able to judge more maturely what could be done. Then he made his first move when he sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda army... this element grew up in Bengal as a result of the strong repression and the reaction to it in that province. The public activity of Sri Aurobindo began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These [nine] 2 articles written at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo's Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently denounced the ...
... 1893 to March 1894, contributes a series of articles, "New Lamps for Old," to the Indu Prakash. 1893,May 31 - Swami Vivekananda sails for America. 1894,April 8 -Bankim Chandra Chatterji passes away. In July August, Sri Aurobindo writes a series of articles on him in the Indu Prakash. 1897- Sri Aurobindo teaches French, then English at the Baroda College; ...
... leaders who were by no means Pacifists or worshippers of Ahimsa. For the first few years in India, Sri Aurobindo abstained from any political activity (except the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash ) and studied the conditions in the country so that he might be able to judge more maturely what could be done. Then he made his first move when he sent a young Bengali soldier of the Baroda army... Bengal as a result of the strong repression and the reaction to it in that Province. The public activity of Sri Aurobindo began with the writing of the articles in the Indu Prakash . These nine articles written Page 248 at the instance of K. G. Deshpande, editor of the paper and Sri Aurobindo’s Cambridge friend, under the caption "New Lamps for Old" vehemently ...
... Congressmen, all served in due course to crystallise Nationalism (or Radicalism or Extremism) as a powerful philosophy of mass action. Tilak had read Sri Aurobindo's outspoken articles in the Indu Prakash (1893-4), they had first met at Baroda in 1901 and cultivated an immediate friendship, and their minds worked in much the same way. Like Sri Aurobindo, Tilak too had his affiliations with the... found the words. He spoke with feeling, the words carried conviction. He spoke in small, jerky, almost nervous sentences, very unlike the language of a Classical scholar, or the language of the Indu Prakash article or the Bande Mataram editorials. He spoke neither like a professional combative politician nor yet like a seasoned statesman. It was more in the tone of the evangelist, the prophet: ...
... become a war-cry". 1 A war-cry indeed it became, and not in Bengal Page 219 only, but over the entire subcontinent. In Sri Aurobindo's series of seven articles in the Indu Prakash (16 July to 27 August 1894) on Bankim Chandra Chatterji, there was a casual reference to Ananda Math but no mention at all of the song, Bande Mataram. As a matter of fact, the song was... and boycott, - Sri Aurobindo had expressed even in his "New Lamps for Old" articles (1893-4) his adhesion to the independence ideal, and in his "Bankim Chandra Chatterji" articles in the Indu Prakash (1894) his detestation of the system of education in India ("the very worst system of training"). Independence had to be wrested from the British, if necessary by a recourse to armed revolution; ...
... His "New Lamps for Old" articles in the Indu Prakash were meant to bring this home to the Indian politician, but they only shocked and scandalised the Congress leaders, and Sri Aurobindo was persuaded to stop that line of attack. Turning now to Bankim Chandra Chatterji, about whom Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of articles in 1894 in the Indu Prakash, he found in the Bengali novelist a true ...
... Virtue and other pieces. PART TWO: ON LITERATURE (BARODA 1893-1906) Bankim Chandra Chatterji This series of essays was published in seven instalments in as many issues of the Indu Prakash , a weekly Marathi-English newspaper of Bombay: 16 July 1894, 23 July 1894, 30 July 1894, 6 August 1894, 13 August 1894, 20 August 1894, 27 August 1894. The pieces were not signed: the phrase "By... be necessary for him "to revise and possibly to omit or alter some passages" before publication. He did not find time for this revision, and when the essays were published as a book in 1954, the Indu Prakash text was reproduced as it stood. The same text is reproduced here. On Poetry and Literature Sri Aurobindo wrote these pieces on literary subjects between 1898 and 1906 (or somewhat ...
... then known as Aurobindo Ghose and Bal Gangadhar Tilak. As early as 1893, immediately after his return from England at the young age of 21, Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of articles in the Indu Prakash. In these articles he severely criticised the Congress for its mendicant approach. He felt that instead of having a clear- Page 50 cut goal of national freedom, it wasted... trifles and paltry administrative reforms. He advocated a leonine policy rather than the mendicant policy being followed then by the leaders of the Congress party. Here is an extract from the Indu Prakash: 'I say of the Congress, then, this - that its aims are mistaken, that the spirit in which it proceeds towards their accomplishments is not a spirit of sincerity and whole-heartedness, and that ...
... same journal, Indu Prakash, a short sequence of critical appreciation of Bankim Chandra Chatterji, the renowned genius of Bengali letters and the author of the national anthem, Bande Mataram. 131. 'Ideals Face to Face', Bande Mataram (May 3,1908). Page 104 After completing the series on Bankim Chandra, Sri Aurobindo stopped contributing to the Indu Prakash. At this time ...
... Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, the contents of which are given in Part III. I PERIODICALS WITH WHICH SRI AUROBINDO WAS ASSOCIATED ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY Indu Prakash English-Marathi Weekly Bombay Sri Aurobindo contributed two series of articles to this newspaper, which was edited by his Cambridge friend K. G. Deshpande. New Lamps for... 5, 1910 (See 13). SABCL: Collected Poems, Vol. 5 6 . BANKIM CHANDRA CHATTERJI Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1954 First appeared in the Indu Prakash, Bombay between July 16 and August 27,1894, in seven instalments. SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3 7. BANKIM - TILAK - DAYANANDA Arya Publishing House ...
... Mataram New Lamps for Old with India and the British Parliament - Notes The nine articles comprising New Lamps for Old were published in the Indu Prakash of Bombay from 7 August 1893 to 6 March 1894. A preliminary article, "India and the British Parliament", was published in the same newspaper on 26 June 1893. Page 5 ...
... 1929), 149(fn) -Luc know (1916),195 -Nagpur ( 19 20), I 49(fn), 155 -Surat (1907), 35 and World War 11,227,231 Indo-Afghan race , 96, 107 Indo-Saracenic architecture, 168 Indra , 116,117 Indu Prakash (Bombay daily), 9 Indus-Saraswati civilization, 1oo(fn) industry, 14,43,78, 127, 154 ,216,221 institutions, 9,7,72 , 136 , 141,219 intolerance, 147, 167 Islam, 32 , 44, 53, 129, 143, 158, 167 ...
... The quiet, gentlemanly Aurobindo Ghose had always been a radical. His series of political articles “New Lamps for Old”, written in 1893 when he was twenty-one, was terminated by the editor of the Indu Prakash because the articles where so scathing that the editor feared the colonial rulers might take offence. We know already that Aurobindo staked his life on achieving the freedom of his Motherland. ...
... Deshpande, who together with Aurobindo had been a member of the Indian Majlis at Cambridge, asked him to express his opinion on the current political situation in a series of articles for the Indu Prakash, the newspaper of which Deshpande was the editor. Aurobindo complied and wrote New Lamps for Old, lambasting the Indian National Congress in such hard-hitting prose that Deshpande got much more ...
... up a life-long interest in the subject of what true education should connote and imply. Although Sri Aurobindo had contributed his first thoughts on education as far back as 1894 to the Journal Indu Prakash of Bombay and expressed his views on the same subject for the last time in 1949 in the quarterly Bulletin of Physical Education published from his Ashram, it came as a pleasant surprise to many ...
... similes, 644H; its metre, 645; the "unwomanly" woman, 646; Herbert Read on, 690 Imam, Syed Mehdi, 579 'Indian Majlis', 34, 37,183, 281 Indian Patriot, The, 244, 340 Indu Prakash, 55, 57, 59, 184ff, 188, 194, 206, 217, 218, 220, 228, 268. 277, 281, 338, 514 In the Moonlight, 164-66, 169; Amoldian high seriousness, 164; first and last questions, 164; science is ...
... Sri Aurobindo - a biography and a history Bibliography Sri Aurobindo's writings have appeared in journals (notably Indu Prakash, Bande Mataram, Yugantar, Karmayogin, Dharma, Standard-Bearer, Arya and Bulletin of Physical Education), as also in book form in successive editions and impressions. For this edition the references to Sri Aurobindo's writings are ...
... lecturer in French, and finally as Professor of English, at the State College, of which he became Vice Principal, later on officiated as Principal. 1893-94 Contributed to the Indu prakash of Bombay a series of articles entitled 'New Lamps for Old' exposing the hollowness of the then Congress policy; another series on Bankim Chandra Chatterji. Learning Sanskrit ...
... harmony of prose". If one takes a total view, his prose writing covers a period of almost sixty years of ceaseless literary activity. The "New Lamps for Old" and Bankim Chandra articles in the Indu Prakash in the early eighteen-nineties; the editorial and other contributions to the Bande Mataram, the Karmayogin and the Arya: the letters - thousands of them - to the disciples: one who views all ...
... 773 into our eyes instead of Sir Harvey's legislative cranium. All the native papers then are Extremist organs! What all, Sir Harvey? The Bengalee no less than the Bande Mataram , the Indu Prakash in the same boat with the Kesari ? All Extremists, for have not all expressed dissatisfaction with reforms which would have been received two years ago with an unanimous shriek of infantine delight ...
... form a band of vain, petulant upstarts who delight in wrecking and breaking for its own sake. The Bengalee calls upon the people to repudiate these traitors, and the Tribune of Lahore, the Indu Prakash and Social Reformer of Bombay, the Indian People of Allahabad have by this time swelled that cry. The principle that underlay our attempt to get Lajpat elected to the Presidential chair has ...
... Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 24.Oct.1906 - 27.May.1907 Bande Mataram Moonshine for Bombay Consumption 01-May-1907 The Calcutta correspondent of the Indu Prakash seems to be an adept in fitting his news to the likings of his clientele. He has discovered that the old party and the new are united not against the Government but against the Mahomedans. All ...
... blow straight in the face Page 434 and struck the Moderate party dumb and senseless for a moment. The heaviness of the blow it had received can be judged by the sudden violence of the Indu Prakash which exceeded in the fierce anger of its utterances any Extremist organ. There is no disguising the fact that the Moderate's occupation is gone. British rule has so unmistakably, finally, irrevocably ...
... Bande Mataram The Effect of Petitionary Politics 29-May-1907 We are glad to notice a ring of boldness and sincerity in all the writings of the Indu Prakash relating to the deportation of Lajpat Rai. We hope this tone will be an enduring change for the better. Mr. Gokhale's resort to the Anglo-Indian Press in preference to the Indian, on which its ...
... secretary, especially for writing his speeches and the history of his reign. Hardly six months after his arrival in India Aravinda was asked to contribute a series of articles to a newspaper called Indu Prakash. This may be considered his entrance into Indian politics. In this series, called “New Lamps for Old”, he lambasted the Indian National Congress Party (founded in 1885) for its submissive attitude ...
... a young man who did not even speak his mother tongue. Barely four months after his arrival in India he had already written a series of articles, in sonorous English of course, for the daily Indu Prakash, titled ‘ New Lamps for Old’, in which he criticized the subservient attitude of the Congress towards the British rulers without mincing his words. These words sounded so bold that he was asked ...
... [Baroda Record Office, Vadodara]). 51 seven nine Nine instalments of New Lamps for Old were published in the Indu Prakash between 7 August 1893 and 6 March 1894 (Sri Aurobindo, Bande Mataram: Political Writings and Speeches 1890 - 1908 , pp. 11 - 62). 56 Karachi ...
... and twenty-five years before Mahatma Gandhi's entry on the political scene in 1918. Sri Aurobindo was twenty-one when he wrote a series of nine articles, "New Lamps for Old," in the Indu Prakash, a Marathi-English Bombay daily; in these articles, which had to be stopped following pressures on the newspaper's editor, Sri Aurobindo took stock of the prevailing situation and launched into ...
... what the Congress was like at that time and I formed a strong contempt for it. Then I came into touch with Deshpande, Tilak, Madhavrao and others. Deshpande requested me to write something in the Indu Prakash. There I severely criticised the Congress for its moderate policy. The articles were so fiery that M. G. Ranade, the great Maratha leader, asked the proprietor of the paper not to allow such seditious ...
... Huxley, Julian 37 Page 494 Ideal of Human Unity, The 38,293,359,459 Ilion 53-55,318,319,364,446,458 Indu Prakash 27 Inge.W.R. 331,434 IshaUpanishad 25,26,241 Iyengar, K.R. Srinivasa 29,46,415,421 Jacobi,Jolande272,273 James, William 13 Jones ...
... immediately before his return to India and when he had finally left Cambridge – that is, between October 1892 and January 1893. The seven articles he wrote on Indian independence in the Indu-prakash entitled New Lamps for Old immediately on his return to India, articles which advocated a new ideal, a new approach and a new method to be adopted by the Indian National Congress, are a ...
... member of the Majlis but he also joined an Indian Secret Society, functioning from London, known as the 'Lotus and the Dagger'. On his return to India, he contributed a series of articles to the Indu Prakash, entitled 'New Lamps for Old', criticising the old leaders for their weak-kneed policy of political mendicancy. His own ideas regarding the emancipation of India were as yet nebulous; there was ...
... III We have seen in an earlier chapter (III.vi) how the fiery-souled Sister Nivedita met Sri Aurobindo at Baroda in 1902, having read earlier with profound admiration his articles in the Indu Prakash. She could see in him even then the same missionary spirit that had animated her own great Master, Swami Vivekananda, Page 338 and Sri Aurobindo glimpsed in her the Shakti ...
... have groaned, had generated the feeling of an intolerable burden," wrote Sri Aurobindo in the Bande Mataram issue of 6 May 1907. After he had stopped writing the political articles in the Indu Prakash, Sri Aurobindo had suspended all public activity of this kind and worked only in secret till 1905. First of all he studied the conditions in the country so that he might be able to judge more maturely ...
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