The Times of India : so renamed in 1861, it was founded in 1838 as Bombay Times. On 2nd Feb.1885, P.M. Mehta quoted Dufferin’s “No man...whatever his occupation, was justified in dissociating himself altogether from all contact with political affairs”, at the Bombay Presidency Association, two days after it was formed by him, Badruddin Tayābji, K.T. Telang, Jamsetji Jejeebhoy (1783-1859). The Times reacted with: “Any demand of natives...for a share in the Imperial Govt. should be checked as wholly immature in their own interest. Representation by election in the governing councils, either of the empire or the provinces, which will probably be the first object of popular agitation, would most certainly be refused.” [Karandikar]
... were so persistent in spite of efforts by the Army to stem them that even a year later there was keen self-questioning by members of the American Senate. Thus, the prominent Bombay daily, The Times of India (p. 5) of October 11, 1958, carried a report from New Delhi: "Senator Fulbright, known for the fellowships named after him, said here today that the large U.S. military aid to Pakistan was... paper had reported on the moves made by the Pakistan Army after the collapse of the politicians. The moves had been initiated by Major-General Iskander Mirza who had now become President. The Times of India said (p. 1): "The President's proclamation, running into 2,000 words, traced in detail the political events of the last few years and emphasized the chaos in national politics, the... Governments would be dismissed with immediate effect and, until alternative Page 122 arrangements were made, Pakistan would come under martial law." On October 11, The Times of India (p.1) again quoted President Mirza's "own reluctant conviction over the past year that the country was headed for disaster through a 'bloody revolution from below.'" The Bombay paper went ...
... connected with the Evening News of India , upcoming poet Armando Menezies and D.F. Karaka, later to shine in the field of journalism. There was also Frank Moraes, later the famous editor of The Times of India and The Indian Express and Frederic Mendonca who went on to be-come a Professor of English at St. Xavier's College. Then there were R.K. Karanjia (later the editor of Blitz ) and Nissim... The Hindu, 12.1.1990. Sethna's Papers. Book reviewed: Blake's Tyger: A Christological Interpretation, Pondicherry: K.D. Sethna, 1989. 18. "A Tale of Two Civilizations" by G.C. Pandey, The Times of India, 1.8.1982. Sethna's Papers. Book reviewed: Karpasa in Prehistoric India: A Chronological and Cultural Clue , New Delhi: Biblia Implex Private Ltd., 1981. Page xxix It is ...
... people in the Legislative Council, luminous and ineffective debater scattering his periods in vain in that august void, he has been at once the admired of the people and the spoilt darling of the Times of India , the trusted counsellor of John Morley and a leader of the party of Colonial self-government. For some time the victim of his own false step during the troubles in Poona he was distrusted by ...
... Karmayogin College Square Speech - II Delivered at College Square, Calcutta, on 10 October 1909. Text published in the Times of India (Bombay) on 11 October. Mr. Aurobindo Ghose next rose amid loud cheers and cries of "Bande Mataram". He said that the meeting was the last they could hold before the Partition Day, which was approaching, and ...
... for publication. I didn't know that it would be published. I wasn't at all sure. I dreamed I saw the journal and the poem. And really it was published! Long, long ago, I wrote an article in The Times of India about Puttur, and I dreamed I had got a hundred rupees in my hand; and really I got that sum. When I read a poem, a passage, all of a sudden, I get such intuitive understanding. Sri ...
... of the evolving world city". Angelo Moretta wrote in Giornale d'ltalia that Auroville would "serve to translate into reality the teachings of the Plato of modern India, Aurobindo Ghosh". The Times of India described the simple ceremony as "history in the making, with all countries of the world participating in the first attempt ever to provide mankind with a place where all human beings of good ...
... vex Page 578 the soul of benevolent despotism by their writings, have not the bureaucracy such authoritative, able and reliable supporters as the Pioneer , the Englishman or the Times of India in English and the organs of their ally Salimullah in the vernacular to undo the mischief? To meet the peaceful instruments of Press and platform with imprisonment and persecution or with ...
... association with men of violent views and actions their work for posterity is hampered and spoiled. In other words, so long as they do not obey the orders of the Englishman , the Madras Mail and the Times of India , and dissociate themselves from the new movement and Nationalism they will not enjoy the confidence of the bureaucracy or be allowed to approach them with statesmanlike petitions and co-operate ...
... among the Natufians, a culturally similar people from Palestine. Both these peoples, besides 9.Review of Sarkar's Ancient Races of the Deccan (Munshiram Manoharlal,New Delhi, 1973) in the Times of India Weekly (Bombay, December16, 1974). 10. Ibid. Page 22 using microliths, wore ornaments of dentalium shell beads. While noting these affinities, one must remember the difference ...
... , for Bangladesh (East Pakistan) is now entirely independent..." We may conclude our account with a significant letter written by M. C. Desai, on September 29,1942 to the Bombay Daily, The Times of India. It is entitled "Complex of Dependency" and runs: "It is amusing to find such Congress and liberal stalwarts as Mr. Rajagopalachari and Sir Chimanlal Setalvad openly advocating almost ...
... Some warning voices This behaviour pattern had been noticed by many eminent and perceptive personalities long before partition. The great poet, Rabindranath Tagore, in an interview to The Times of India published on April 18, 1924: "Another very important fact which according to the poet was making it almost impossible for Hindu-Mohammedan unity to become an accomplished fact was that the M ...
... "May you live a Page 214 long life." It was obvious in that moment that I was seeing my own self in them and they were seeing their own self in me. From times immemorial India's message has been promulgated by her saints, sages, gurus and rishis and transmitted by them to those who were desirous of knowing the truth. The essence of this message is simple: Behind... A Vision of United India India's spiritual heritage An article written by Glen P. Kezwer, Ph.D. Glen Kezwer has been practising and studying meditation for the past twenty years at a meditation institute in northern India. He writes: Spirituality is an intrinsic part of Indian culture and life. Every Indian home is adorned with a... consciousness, which permeates everything. I myself am not of Indian origin. I was born and raised in Canada, but have spent the greater part of the past twenty years living in India. During this time India has become my home. I have travelled her highways and byways from Kerala and Tamil Nadu to Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. I have traversed this vast land on her railways, buses, taxis ...
... al Survey of India Annual Report 1926-27. Sankalia, H.D., "Cultural Divisions of India", in Science Today (Times of India, Bombay, 1967). Indian Archaeology Today (Asia, Bombay, 1962). Indian Archaeology Today (Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1979). Letters to K.D. Sethna, dated 1.11.1962, 21.3.1963, 16.4.1963. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan ... Manoharlal, New Delhi, 1973) in Times of India Weekly (Bombay) (Dec. 16, 1974). "Traditional Indian Chronology and C-14 dates of excavated Sites", in Indian. Prehistory (1964). Sarkar, S.S., Ancient Races of Balūchistān, Punjāb and Sind (Bookland, Calcutta, 1964). "Race and Race Movements in India", in The Cultural Heritage of India Vol. I (Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta... (Allen & Unwin, London, 1952). " The Origin of the Indo-Aryans", in The Cultural Heritage of India, Vol. I (Ramakrishna Mission, Calcutta, 1958). Giles, P., "The Aryans", in The Cambridge History of India (1922). Gimbutas, Marija, "Accounting for a Great Change", in Times Literary Supplement (June 24-30, 1988). Gonda, J., The Vision of the Vedic Poets (Mouton ...
... sacrosanct Mikado as a cover for the change to an aristocratic and feudal government and has again brought him forward in modern times to cover and facilitate without too serious a shock the transition from a mediaeval form of society into the full flood of modernism. In India the continued fiction of the ancient fourfold order of society based on spiritual idealism, social type, ethical discipline and... described from the early Vedic times to India of Buddha and the philosophers and again from Buddha to the time of the European irruption was in its own way as vast in change religious, social, cultural, even political and administrative as the double cycle of Europe; but because it preserved old names for new things, old formulas for new methods and old coverings for new institutions and because the... makes for the longevity of civilisations and the persistence of what was valuable in humanity's past. So, in India, if religion has changed immensely its form and temperament, the religious spirit has been really eternal, the principle of spiritual discipline is the same as in the earliest times, the fundamental spiritual truths have been preserved and even enriched in their contents and the very forms ...
... AUROBINDO: That's the disadvantage for the county When Hitler and Mussolini go they won't leave any tradition behind. They have no families of cultural distinction such as there used to be in the old times. In India there was also the traditional line of culture handed down from Gurus to disciples. Then the talk took a sudden turn. Someone began to speak Ramatirtha who could recite "Om " in such a wonderful... traditional experience from ancient times. Any number of Gurus give initiation after their death. NIRODBARAN: You once spoke about Ramakrishna's and Vivekananda's influence in your life. Was it this you meant? SRI AUROBINDO: No. I referred to the influence of their words and books when I returned from England to Baroda. Their influence was very strong all over India. But I had another direct experience... within ten months. There were some peculiar rules to be observed before taking the medicine: for example, the woman had to take a bath, the hair had to be down, etc., etc. Many such things known to India are being lost now. SATYENDRA: I don't think medicines will succeed in curing disease. I believe only the Yogic power can do it. NIRODBARAN: Quite so; but, even there, one has to fulfil certain ...
... Man The Process of Evolution Charles Darwin (1809-82) The process of evolution was detected in ancient times. Both in India and in Greece, there were important ideas of evolution. In modern times, the theory of evolution is mainly the work of Linnaeus (1707-78), Buffon (1707-88), Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), Lamarck (1744-1829), Charles Darwin (1809-82) ...
... natural principles of our being, religion, if it is not the whole life, yet watches over and powerfully influences and moulds the whole life of the individual and society, as it did till recent times in India and to a great extent in all Asiatic countries. State religions are an expression of this endeavour. But a State religion is an artificial monstrosity, although a national religion may well be... of all these various jurisdictions with the king as at once the source of their sanctions and a high court of appeal and the possessor of original powers, which are exercised sometimes as in ancient India by judicial process but sometimes in more autocratic polities by ukase—the latter especially on the criminal side, in the awarding of punishments and more particularly punishments for offences against... it is freely customary, where, that is to say, it merely expresses the social habits of the people, it must, except in small societies, naturally lead to or permit considerable variety of custom. In India, any sect or even any family was permitted to develop variations of the religious and civil custom which the general law of the society was bound within vague limits to accept, and this freedom is still ...
... "sowing two types of grain" in the same field, 23 "wheeled transport (as documented by cart frames and 20."Cultural Divisions of India", Science Today (A Times of India Publication; Bombay, 1967), pp. 11-12. 21. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (1974), p. 33l. 22. Ibid., p. 345. 23. Ibid., p. 347. Page 62 wheels)", 24 "long distant trade (lapis... inevitably fix a culture as Vedic Aryan has not been discovered in the times and places mentioned by Sankalia in that letter. But can we affirm that such traces have met the Page 56 archaeologist's spade even for the second millennium B.C. during which most historians visualize the Vedic Aryans as invading India and settling down in the Punjāb and Sind? We have already cited... Harappā Culture. 13 Most probably the figurine precedes 9. Piggott, op. cit. p. 121. 10. Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Pakistan (1974), p. 325, col. 2. 11. Op. cit, p. 126. 12. Op, cit., p. 324, col. 2. 13. The Roots of Ancient India, p. 148. Page 59 the Harappā Culture, but otherwise too it is, at the latest, only a little after 2500 B.C. Lastly ...
... Psychological Unity of India In the history of India, we shall note that India became a nation state only in recent times; in a sense, only after the conquest by the British. However, the psychological sense of unity was there from the most ancient times. India had a fundamental cultural and spiritual unity rather than a political and economical unity. For in India the spiritual and cultural... All these created a feeling that India was not just a geographical entity or a collection of people merely having the same religion and language. The Indian nation became a living being with a distinct personality, a dynamic psychological entity. It is this feeling that has been expressed by poets and writers throughout the ages. In modern times, this was the whole meaning of Bandemataram... congeries of diverse peoples, lands, kingdoms and, in earlier times, republics also, diverse races, sub-nations with a marked character of their own, developing different brands or forms of civilisation and culture, many schools of art and architecture which yet succeeded in fitting into the general Indian type of civilisation and culture. India's history throughout has been marked by a tendency, a constant ...
... Krishnavarma has been a plotter of assassination and secret disseminator of Terrorism or that the India House is a centre for the propagation and fulfilment of the ideas he has himself ventilated in the Times . Nervous Anglo-India Time was when Srijut Surendranath Banerji was held by nervous Anglo-India to be the crowned King of an insurgent Bengal, a very pestilent fellow flooding the country with... peaceful and unsuspected journalist and lecturer in London acquitted, we hope, of all wish to be the Ravana destined to Page 146 shake the British Kailas. But Anglo-India needs a bogeyman and by a few letters to the Times Mr. Krishnavarma has leaped into that eminent but unenviable position. Who knows? In another year or two even he may be considered a harmless if inconvenient idealist. What... steal upon the people, one thing is certain that if Lord Morley and the Anglo-Indian proconsuls succeed in perpetuating absolutism in India, it will recoil from India to reconquer England. The Nationalists of this country are fighting not only for the liberties of India but for the liberties of England. Liberty or Empire It is an ancient and perpetually recurring choice which is now being offered ...
... 6 Deoghar Although more than a year had passed since his return to India, A. Ghose had neither gone to his natal land nor met any member of his family. Bengal now beckoned him. "I was at Deoghar several times," wrote Sri Aurobindo, "and saw my grandfather there, first in good health and then bedridden with paralysis." It was, we... where he was professor for some five years and "soon became a living legend." He was promoted as Inspector of Schools from 1902, and transferred to Purulia in the Chota Nagpur District. In those times India was well covered with extensive forests where wild animals roamed about freely. M. M. Ghose had to undertake long, uncomfortable journeys to remote parts of the district, often by night, in an ox-cart... but a peculiar refinement of cruelty. For how could Hell fail to be ten times more Hell to the poor wretch after the delicious coolness of his iceberg ? I do not know for what enormous crime I have been condemned to Baroda, but my case is just parallel. Since my pleasant sojourn with you at Baidyanath, Baroda seems a hundred times more Baroda. "I dare say Beno may write to you three or four days ...
... God. (1) Does the rose of all flowers most perfectly and aptly express the divine ecstasies or has it not any symbolic allusion in the Veda or the Upanishad? There were no roses in those times in India—roses came in with the Mahomedans from Persia. The rose is usually taken by us as the symbol of surrender, love etc. But here it is not used in that sense, but as the most intense of all flowers ...
... periodical like Mother India. Not that Mother India is always chockful of excellent things. It has several "planes" - high brow, middle brow, even low brow; but a certain minimum thought-building has to be there and the thrust of everything has to be towards something fine or cultured in the being, even if not something overtly spiritual at all times. Further, Mother India has a "heart" added... write to you on the subject of inspiration at all this length. Now to come to the theme proper of your letter. According to you, you feel at home in India because India is one palpitating mass of emotionalism and sendmentalism. India to me is various things, including emotionalism and senti-mentalism, but at its most exquisite and at its truest it is psychic and intuitive on the one hand and... And that is why Mother India has many levels of writing as well as many modes of expression. If I were doing what you paint me as doing - namely, wanting all poems and articles to be "Amalian" - there would hardly be such a diversity. Merely to want certain turns of speech to be corrected or just to deem certain sorts of writing to be defective or unsuitable for Mother India is not to insist on ...
... Science and organization and even in many respects excelled its teachers; India has failed in this all-important task of assimilation. If we go a step farther back and insist on asking why this is so, we shall be told it is because Japan has "reformed" herself and got rid of ideas & institutions unsuited to modern times; while India clings obstinately to so much that is outworn and effete. Even if we waive... unshaken nerve & courage were needed to grasp them or to keep what had been grasped. There was no demand for the stable & easy virtues of the bourgeois. In the times of stress and anarchy which accompanied the disintegration of mediaeval India, the conditions were yet more unfavourable; character and morals shared in the general disintegration, but ability & courage were even more in demand than before... seal of the bourgeois. The bourgeois as a distinct & well-evolved entity is an entirely modern product in India, he is the creation of British policy, English education, Western civilization. Ancient India, mediaeval India were not a favourable soil for his growth. The spirit of ancient India was aristocratic; its thought & life moulded Page 1095 in the cast of a high & proud nobility, ...
... the rose of all flowers most perfectly and aptly express the divine ecstasies or has it any symbolic allusion in the Veda or the Upanishad?" Sri Aurobindo answered: "There were no roses in those times in India — roses came with the Mahomedans from Persia. The rose is usually taken by us as the symbol of surrender, love etc. But here it is not used in that sense, but as the most intense of all flowers... the tingeing, but the impression would miss the intense colour-impact as well as the intense multiplicity. Although only seven the ecstasies are said to be, we feel as if they were seven times seven and as many times flushed. The entire last line, Passion-flower of the Nameless, bud of the mystical Name, is splendid. As my remarks in the previous Talk must have made it clear, the designation... not just in Sanskrit. But the Rigveda, though Page 149 giving prominence to this number, does not confine its numerology to seven: what is most often spoken of as seven is also at times counted as five, eight, nine, ten and twelve. So, whether we take up seven or another number would depend somewhat on our line of approach and our frame of reference. But perhaps the mysti-cism proper ...
... in the case of good serials like Krishna, there are so many interruptions of advertisement that the good message of that serial gets lost. As regards the role of teachers, he said that in early times in India, the teacher was called adhyapaka because he was supposed to do adhyayana. In contrast, he said, we now call a teacher a shikshak and this indicates the limited role of teacher as one who... revolution in ideas and that teachers should become fearless. Referring to the question that was posed to Gandhi as to what was the greatest problem of India, he said that Gandhi had turned down the suggestion that poverty was the greatest problem of India and said that "Cowardice is the greatest problem". He concluded by saying that authorities should dare to take action and teachers should be fearless... M. Lai said that while the Workshop spoke of higher aims of education, we have to realise that our country has 40 % of its population illiterate. He said that while one India lives in towns and metropolitan cities, the other India lives in villages. He said that we have only succeeded in making the poor poorer and the rich richer. He added that the greatest need in our country is first to bring about ...
... Theories of Evolution and Sri Aurobindo's Concept of Supramental Manifestation THE process of evolution was detected in ancient times. Both in India and in Greece, there were important ideas of evolution. In modern times, the theory of evolution is mainly the work of Linnaeus (1707-78), Buffon (1707-88), Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), Lamarck (1744-1829), Charles Darwin (1809-82) ...
... swept triumphant through India and reconstituted the whole religious life of her peoples, inferior as a personality to Luther? Why are Chanakya and Chandragupta who laid down the form of empire-building in India and whose great administrative system survived with changes often for the worse down to modern times, lesser men than the rulers and statesmen of European history? India may not present any recorded... and it is the great saints and religious personalities that stand at the head in India and present the most striking and continuous roll-call of greatness, just as Rome lived most in her warriors and statesmen and rulers. The Rishi in ancient India was the outstanding figure with the hero just behind, while in later times the most striking feature is the long uninterrupted chain from Buddha and Mahavira... in with the striking figures of Chandragupta, Chanakya, Asoka, the Gupta emperors and goes down through the multitude of famous Hindu and Mahomedan figures of the middle age to quite modern times. In ancient India there was the life of republics, oligarchies, democracies, small kingdoms of which no detail of history now survives, afterwards the long effort at empire-building, the colonisation of Ceylon ...
... shall, therefore, divide the history of political India into four parts. First is the period from the ancient times till the advent of the Muslims; second is the period of the Muslim rule till the advent of the British, third is the period of the British rule and the last is the political history of independent India. In the first three periods, India was subject to invasions and each one of them was... all who love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country". 4 The need of a political unification We thus see that from the very ancient times, India had developed a cultural and spiritual unity. It is on this firm basis that the unity of India has lasted through the centuries. ... was handled differently, sometimes with remarkable success and at other times with a certain amount of both success and failure. In the first period starting from the Persian invasions till the advent of the Muslims, the invaders were all absorbed and assimilated in India. In the next phase of the Muslim invasions, there was a great deal of assimilation, though incomplete, particularly in the field of ...
... protagonist", or "the One in front", or "the thinker and toiler", or whatever name or epithet suitable for the purpose—automatically, not to say subconsciously, pulls the reader back to bygone times in ancient India. In the first half of Savitri Sri Aurobindo, on the contrary, takes us ahead with him in his avataric enterprise to establish the foundations of the future. Aswapati belongs to the world... 2 A B. Purani, Savitri: An Approach and A Study, pp. 163- 65. 3 Rohit Mehta, The Dialogue with Death, pp. 33-34. *It is true that Sri Aurobindo mentions the name "Aswapati" a few times in his correspondence with K. D. Sethna, but the letters in which this happens date from the second half of the thirties—a time when Sri Aurobindo's correspondent had no other means of placing the ...
... We are citing Indian documents and I do so to support my own "contention" which is based on other data too. Besides, as Mr. de Sa admits, my vision is of a long extensive Aryan belt in ancient times. India to me is not the sole seat of Aryanism. No doubt, this does not answer the question of the ultimate origins. But the ultimate origins have never been established so far. It is sheer dogmatism and... orientated is not to be, as our critic announces, "exceedingly naive": it can be perfectly logical in the perspective of India's religious history and against the background of an Age of Mysteries which, with its double aspect of the esoteric and the exoteric, preceded in ancient times the Age of philosophical mysticism and religious metaphysics as well as devotional ritualism. The way Sri Aurobindo... doctored some of the contents), but this does not detract from their popular origins. Again, Shri Sethna contends that Indian tradition knows nothing of any Aryan invasion of India from the north-west and outside of India, nor of any advance of the Aryan from west to east, and proffers in this regard the verse (Rgveda X, 75) which mentions rivers in their order from the east to the north-west beginning ...
... dance theatre, one of the four classic Hindu dance-dramas, established during the 17th century in Kerala State in South India, many poses are very similar indeed to the postures of the martial arts. There are other strong points which support this evidence. From prehistoric times India has had an entire class whose function was to wage war. The kshatriyas, traditionally the military and ruling class... if true, are of interest. The legend reflects the fact that mutual interest in Buddhism kept China and India in contact around the sixth century AD, a fact that is confirmed in the work of the great twentieth-century sinologist, Dr Joseph Needham. Furthermore, it implies that from very early times, meditation and martial exercises were complementary aspects of Buddhism; the one passive and static, the... The evidence has been neither researched nor presented with this specific academic question in mind, but the ancient military systems of China and India are quite well recorded and enough information exists to give a picture of military life in those times and places. Since war fare and the martial arts are both essentially about fighting, it is useful to take a brief look at the development of the fighting ...
... stood out against him at a crucial period. Our patriotism was then no longer confined to India alone but encompassed the world and wished for universal good. There is nothing contradictory in this. Also, very few people realised in those days that if Hitler won the War it would be a hundred times worse for India. Do you understand?" "We would like to know something more about the revolutionaries... were looking up at Sri Aurobindo, their wide eyes filled with reverential expectation. I was reminded of the forest hermitages of ancient India, where the Gurus, the Rishis, sat surrounded by their young students, eager seekers of wisdom. Of course now the times had changed, and so had the methods of imparting knowledge. Page 26 Sri Aurobindo looked round the room and said — "Many new... are only two and a half really great men in India today' - namely the two of us, Barin and I counted for two, and Tilak stood for half." "Who is Tilak?" "A very great man - certainly not half but a whole man, in fact more than a whole. Few sons of India have been as great. I'll tell you about him by and by.... Well.... My mother came back to India with Sarojini and Barin." "Weren't you sad ...
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