About the Book: Shri Aurobindo and His Contemporary Thinkers
The period spanning the latter half of the eighteenth centuryand the nineteenth
century in India was marked by a reawakenednational spirit to reinterpret Indian
traditional values in modernlight. This book, comprising deliberations presented
at a nationalseminar, discusses some of the illustrious persons of that
periodwho by their ideas and actions enriched the socio-cultural andspiritual
life of the period. Researchers study the period of SriAurobindo, his
contributions as well as those of his contemporariesincluding Raja Rammohan Roy,
Mahatma Gandhi, Tagore, Gokhale andSatish Chandra. The aim is to situate Sri
Aurobindos thoughts inits socio-cultural background and study the contributions
of hiscontemporaries