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Indian Literature
THE
arts which appeal to the soul through the eye are able to arrive at a peculiarly
concentrated expression of the spirit, the aesthesis and the creative mind of a
people, but it is in its literature that we must seek for its most flexible and
many-sided self-expression, for it is the word used in all its power of clear
figure or its threads of suggestion that carries to us most subtly and variably
the shades and turns and teeming significances of the inner self in its
manifestation. The greatness of a literature lies first in the greatness and
worth of its substance, the value of its thought and the beauty
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A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture
A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture
WHEN
we try to appreciate a culture, and
when that culture is the one in
which we have grown up or from which we draw our
governing ideals and are likely from overpartiality to minimise its
deficiences or from overfamiliarity to miss aspects or values of it which would
strike an unaccustomed eye, it is always useful as well as interesting to know
how others see it. It will not move us to change our viewpoint for theirs; but
we can get fresh light from a study of this kind and help our
self-introspection. But there
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
THE FOUNDATIONS OF
INDIAN CULTURE comprises under a single
connecting title the series of articles that appeared in the Arya from
December 1918 to January 1921 in the following sequence:
“Is India Civilised?”,
“A Rationalistic Critic on Indian Culture” and
“A Defence of Indian Culture”.
These articles were later revised by the author.
The essay
“Indian
Culture and External Influence” which appeared in the Arya of March 1919
was also included in the first edition as it bears on the same subject.
THE FOUNDATIONS OF
INDIAN CULTURE was first published in book-form in 1953 by the Sri Aurobindo
Library, New York
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Indian Culture and External Influence
Indian Culture and External Influence
IN
CONSIDERING Indian civilisation and its renascence, I suggested that a powerful new
creation in all fields was our great need, the meaning of the renascence and the
one way of preserving the civilisation. Confronted with the huge rush of modern
life and thought, invaded by another dominant civilisation almost her opposite
or inspired at least with a very different spirit to her own, India can only
survive by confronting, this raw, new, aggressive, powerful world with fresh
diviner creations of her own spirit, cast in the mould of her own spi
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The Issue:
Is India Civilised?
Is India Civillsed?
A BOOK under this rather startling title was
published some years ago by Sir John Woodroffe, the
well-known scholar and writer on Tantric philosophy, in answer to an
extravagant jeu dʼesprit by Mr. William Archer. That well-known dramatic
critic leaving his safe natural sphere for fields in which his chief claim to
speak was a sublime and confident ignorance, assailed the whole life and
culture of India and even lumped together all her greatest achievements,
philosophy, religion, poetry, painting, sculpture, Upanishads, Mahabharata,
Ramayana, in one wholesale condemnation as a repulsive mass of unspe
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Indian Art
A GOOD deal of hostile or unsympathetic western criticism of
Indian civilisation has been directed in the past against its aesthetic side and
taken the form of a disdainful or violent depreciation of its fine arts,
architecture, sculpture and painting. Mr. Archer would not find much support in
his wholesale and undiscriminating depreciation of a great literature, but
here too there has been, if not positive attack, much failure of understanding;
but in the attack on Indian art, his is the last and shrillest of many hostile
voices. This aesthetic side of a peopleʼs culture is of the highest importance
and demands almost as much scrutiny and carefulness of appreciation as the
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The
Renaissance in India
The
Renaissance in India
THERE has been recently
some talk of a Renaissance in India. A number of illuminating essays with that
general title and subject have been given to us by a poet and subtle critic and
thinker, Mr. James H. Cousins, and others have touched suggestively various
sides of the growing movement towards a new life and a new thought that may well
seem to justify the description. This Renaissance, this new birth in India, if
it is a fact, must become a thing of immense importance both to herself and the
world, to herself bec
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A DEFENCE OF INDIAN CULTURE
Religion and Spirituality
I
HAVE
described the
framework of the Indian idea from the outlook of an intellectual criticism, because
that is the standpoint of the critics who affect to disparage its value. I have
shown that Indian culture must be adjudged even from this alien outlook to have
been the creation of a wide and noble spirit. Inspired in the heart of its
being by a lofty principle, illumined with a striking and uplifting idea of
individual manhood and its powers and its possible perfection, aligned to a
spacious plan of social architecture, it was enriched not only by a strong
philosophic, intellectual a
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