Sri Aurobindo is neglected by the academic community

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IMHO, there is a big diff btwn works / views of scholars of political Hindutva - Savarkar to Elst - n those of spiritual / philosophical Hinduism - Dayanand, Vivekanand, Sri Aurobindo, etc to Gurudatt, Ram Swarup, etc. n some such SR Goel stand in both camps.

https://twitter.com/gopimaliwal/status/1433098783437430784?t=di9Pn0Ti4Jie3SNmNGdvwQ&s=19

An anecdotal observation,doesn’t deserve a detailed study.Those whose worldview have been informed entirely by Goel-Elst,have a skewed and factually unfounded view of modern history of India and suffer from a bias against Bengalis.Specifics rebutting 👇presented in other tweets:

I have read several of Goel’s books myself& think highly of those on medieval history, still.His books are the first i read when I got interested in history, I loved those then, but later as I siffed through primary sources of modern history, I realized their limitations on that:

https://twitter.com/sarkar_swati/status/1433682097726795785?t=OJeMk3xnAMn3dwZH6AgM1g&s=19

I didn’t deny RKM has some issues, but overall their contribution has been monumental. Its suicidal to pull down Hindu religious institutions, of which only few exists. And they are purely Hindu despite their selective & opportunist attempt in court

Origin of Bharat Mata-chronology: 1)Play by Kiran Chandra Bannerjee, Bhārat Mātā,1873;2) Bankimchandra Chatterjee,Anand Math 1880; 3) Abanindranath Tagore in his painting, 1905 ; 4) Bhawani Bharat poem by Sri Aurobindo & 5) Vijaya, Tamil magazine 1909. https://t.co/BEp4MmG2bX

https://twitter.com/grraghavender/status/1433474334442463253?t=1aFAyT5ScSkxUqggp2J5dg&s=19

Please read the same continuity in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri where he reinterprets Savitris dialogue with Yama the god of death in terms of the souls journey and evolution @SavitriEra @Sanjays81301051

https://twitter.com/ProfessorPuri/status/1433464487282053123?t=_MsdLOWD98mqi2FY7Toxbg&s=19

Sri Aurobindo is largely neglected by the academic community and people do not appreciate that he represents a very important moment in the development of the Indian philosophical tradition @SavitriEra

https://twitter.com/ProfessorPuri/status/1433467884920053767?t=akH1OgpEOuiHWI1Rcw5LPQ&s=19

Savarkar was inspired by Mazzini, I don't know if Aurobindo was. Also, I don't think Mazzini played any role in the specific issue of Bharat Mata notion.

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I wd like to emphasize the Aurobindo-Deuskar-Tilak picture of "Maratha-Bengal" dynamic rather than anyone giving highbrow lessons to the other on how superior they have been. Each had its errors and points of sincerity. Lets keep lessons from both and not look down on the other.

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T.V Kapali Sastry was a writer unparalleled and a disciple of Sri Aurobindo, translating several of hours masters works into Sanskrit. And a prolific writer in his own accord and was a known authority on the Rig Veda

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