Reinventing Aurobindo Ghose: Ideational Vision and Nationalism

Aurobindo Ghose's ideological vision challenges traditional interpretations that divide his thought into distinct political and spiritual phases. The common belief that his engagement in the nationalist movement (1893–1910) gave way to a retreat into spirituality in Pondicherry oversimplifies the complexity of his intellectual evolution. This division, often found in historiography, suggests a shift from nationalism to spirituality but fails to recognise the underlying continuity in Aurobin...