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The present brochure is a catalogue of researches on the life and literature of Sri Aurobindo who was a genius-scholar, poet, revolutionary-politician turned revolutionary-spiritualist. He was one whom the Nobel-laureate and the mystic poet of the ‘Gitanjali’ Rabindranath Tagore had offered his salutes in so many words. Sri Aurobindo’s life was not on the surface for men to see yet researchers and thinkers have turned the pages of his life and works to collect ‘treasures’ from his fathomless sea.

The researches on Sri Aurobindo completed and in-progress in Indian universities have been collected for the information of our readers and to enable the intending researchers to identify subjects for their research. Wherever we could, we have included the names of the authors also. The catalogue covers about 40 universities/universities having research programmes in social sciences and has listed over 100 topics on a variety of subjects based on the thought and writings of Sri Aurobindo. Those who would like to have more details on these research works may contact the respective Universities directly.

The catalogue is by no means a complete record of researches on Sri Aurobindo. Efforts are made to update the catalogue by collecting data from the universities year after year. If this helps and inspires our readers to take up study and research on Sri Aurobindo, the catalogue will meet its purpose.

This Catalogue on the website has been updated as on August 2004. A copy of the catalogue of August 2004 edition, in computer print, can be had from the SAIRSS, Sri Aurobindo Society, Beach Office, Pondicherry - 605 002 on prepayment of Rs.35/- (including postage).

Established in 1985 and approved as a research organisation by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences(SAIRSS) is an autonomous research wing of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry. The Institute is recognised for collaborative research by a set of universities/institutes in the country.

The aim of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Research in Social Sciences is to pursue and promote study and research on the thoughts of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother as applied to life situations towards designing a new social order based on consciousness and the inner being.

Research is an on-going process. It is a discovery of facts which all of us see but only one thinks. Research adds to the existing fund of knowledge. Research is ‘original thinking’. Research may be macro or micro, conceptual or empirical, inductive or deductive, theoretical or quantitative. At the SAIRSS, research is based essentially on the thought and the vision of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Researches at the Institute are thus explorative, explicative, interpretative and evaluative.

For outstation researchers the Institute offers, with prior arrangement, necessary expertise and hospitality during their stay at Pondicherry for purpose of study and research on Sri Aurobindo. The Institute also undertakes publishing quality works on Sri Aurobindo subject to those found suitable by the Institute.

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ON ORIGINAL THINKING

The attitude of mankind towards originality of opinion is marked by a natural hesitation and inconsistency. Admired for its rarity, brilliancy and potency, yet in practice and for the same qualities it is more generally dreaded, ridiculed or feared. There is no doubt that it tends to disturb what is established.... Only in one field, that of individual spiritual experience, have we cherished the ancient freedom and originality out of which our past greatness sprang; it is from some new movement in this inexhaustible source that every fresh impulse and rejuvenated strength has arisen. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the grave where dead nations lie, with Greece and Rome of the Caesars, with Esarhaddon and the Chosroes....

The result of this well-meaning bondage has been an increasing impoverishment of the Indian intellect, once the most gigantic and original in the world....

If we merely receive new ideas and institutions in the light in which they are presented to us, we shall, instead of selecting, imitate— blindly, foolishly and inappropriately. ...Selection demands that we should see things not as the foreigner sees them or as the orthodox Pandit sees them, but as they are in themselves. But we have selected at random, we have rejected at random, we have not known how to assimilate or choose. ...Let us not, either, select at random, make a nameless hotchpotch and then triumphantly call it the assimilation of East and West. We must begin by accepting nothing on trust from any source whatsoever, by questioning everything and forming our own conclusions. ...But in order to find out what in our conceptions is true and lasting, we must question all alike rigorously and impartially. ...It was what Carlyle meant when he spoke of swallowing all formulas. ...We must not begin by becoming partisans... Our first business as original thinkers will be to accept nothing, to question everything.

Sri Aurobindo
SABCL Vol.3 pp. 110-14

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ON HIMSELF

“No one can write about my life because it has not
been on the surface for men to see.”
                                                                        - Sri Aurobindo

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INDEX
Universities included in the Catalogue

Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University - Agra

1. Poetic genius of Sri Aurobindo. (1948)

2. Sri Aurobindo as a poet and a thinker. (1960)

3. Sri Aurobindo’s plays: A study of his heroes. (1992)

4. Sri Aurobindo’s plays: A study of his heroines. (1993)

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Marathwada University - Aurangabad

1. Savitri and Dhyaneshwari: A comparative study. (1986)

2. The quest for perfection: A thematic study in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri.

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Sardar Patel University - Ballabhnagar, Anand

1. Sonnets of Sri Aurobindo.

2. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A study in background. (1979)

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Utkal University - Bhubaneshwar

1. The origin and development of Sanskrit in the light of Sri Aurobindo     (Sampadananda Mishra) (2003)

2. Symbolism in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. (1985)

3. Treatment of love in Sri Aurobindo’s literature.

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Bhagalpur University-Bhagalpur

1. Summit of consciousness in english poetry with special reference to Sri     Aurobindo. (1975)

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Magadh University - Bodhgaya

1. A study of imagery and symbols in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. (1974)

2. The development of Sri Aurobindo as a meta-physical poet. (1979)

3. The sonnets of Sri Aurobindo: A study. (1979)

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Bangalore University - Bangalore

1. Sri Aurobindo’s theory of poetry. (1978)

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University of Madras, Chennai

1. Art and aesthetics in the works of Sri Aurobindo. (1984)

2. The concept of physical transformation in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy

3. The individual and the society in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

4. Doctrine of supermind in the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

5. A comparative study of some fundamental concepts of Sri Aurobindo and     Gandhiji’s political philosophy.

6. The shorter poems of Sri Aurobindo: A study. (1988)

7. Critical appreciation of Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem Savitri from a
    psychological point of view. (1991)

8. The mantric value of words in the poems of Sri Aurobindo. (1991)

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Punjab University - Chandigarh

1. Sri Aurobindo: A bibliographical study. (Chawla, Sundershan Kaur)

2. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – a study in theme and techniques. (Lille Madanjit)     (1986)

3. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – as a modern revelatory epic.(Malhotra,
    Om Prakash) (1983)

4. Treatment of nature in Indo-Anglican poetry with special reference to Sri     Aurobindo’s poetry. (Sharma, Nand Lal)

5. Comparative study of the educational thoughts of Vivekananda and Sri     Aurobindo Ghosh and their relevance in the context of national policy on     education . (Verma, Geeta)

6. Sri Aurobindo’s integral education. (with special reference to its
    epistemology) (Verma, Ranjana)

7. The infinite in Indian English poetry: A comparative study in theme and form     with special reference to Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and     Swami Ramtirth. (1996)

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Karnatak University - Dharwar

1. Vira-saivism and Integralism of Sri Aurobindo.

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Guwahati University - Guwahati

1. Indo-English poetry.
    (A study of five major poets with special reference to Sri Aurobindo)

2. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri and the concept of human evolution – a critical
    study.

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Jiwaji University - Gwalior

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy.

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Nagarjuna University - Guntur

1. Adventures of consciousness: A study of Sri Aurobindo’s works. (1989)

2. Sri Aurobindo: The poet of spiritual evolution. (1989)

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Goa University - Goa

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A study of the epic as a twentieth Indian specimen
    of apocalyptic literature. (1997)

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Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages - Hyderabad

1. The poetry of Bhagawan Ramana Maharishi and Sri Aurobindo: A study in     mysticism. (1994)

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Osmania University - Hyderabad

1. Foundations of Indian Culture: A special reference to Sri Aurobindo.

2. Life Divine.

3. *5 persons have done Ph.D and 4 M.Phil. on the ideas of Sri Aurobindo
    and the Mother.

4. Consciousness and Creativity: A study of Sri Aurobindo, T.S. Eliot and
    Aldous Huxley. (1989)

    * The details have been sought for.

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Gurukul Kangri University - Hardwar

1. A critical study of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in the vedic perspective. (1992)

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University of Rajasthan - Jaipur

1. Mysticism in Indo-English poetry with special reference to Sri Aurobindo’s     Savitri.(1957)

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Kurukshetra University - Kurukshetra

1. Literature and Sadhana: A study of Sri Aurobindo’s literary theory. (1992)

2. The concept of Man with special reference to F. Nietzsche, H. Bergson
    and Sri Aurobindo.

3. Educational philosophy of Sri Aurobindo.

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Indira Kala University - Khairagarh

1. Cultural projections in the poetry and plays of Sri Aurobindo.

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University of Calicut - Kerala

1. Post-colonial readings of Sri Aurobindo’s political and cultural writings.

2. The evolutionary aspect of Sri Aurobindo: A literary criticism. (1988)

3. A study of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in the light of Bhagawat Gita. (1996)

4. A comparative study of Gerard Mandey Hopkins and Sri Aurobindo.
    (1994)

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Calcutta University - Kolkata

1. Socio-political theory of Sri Aurbindo. (Debiprasad Chattopadhyay)

2. Sri Aurobindo’s contribution to Yoga. (Jyotirindra Majumdar)

3. Sri Aurobindo as prose-writer. (Goutam Ghoshal)

4. Swadeshi-aandoloner patabhumikay Sri Aurobinder bangla rachana     (Madan-Mohan Haldar)

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Ravindra Bharati University - Kolkata

1. Lord of the language: Tradition and experiment in Sri Aurobindo’s prose
    style. (1987)

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Shivaji University - Kolhapur

1. Sri Aurobindo as romanticist (A study with reference to his poetry aesthetics)     (1979)
2. Sri Aurobindo’s use of image, symbol and myth with particular reference to his     poetry. (1987)

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Lucknow University - Lucknow

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Philosophy

2. The philosophy of the superman in the works of G.B. Shaw and Sri Aurobindo:
    A comparative study. (1993)

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Meerut University - Meerut

1. Sri Aurobindo: His poetry and poetic theory. (1979)

2. A thematic study of the plays of Sri Aurobindo (1989)

3. Savitri and Sri Aurobindo’s theory of poetry: A study in application. (1992)

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University of Bombay - Mumbai

1. Mysticism: A referral to Sri Aurobindo.

2. A comparative study of the educational philosophy of Swami Vivekananda
    and Sri Aurobindo.

3. The dramatic element in the poetical works of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh.(1983)

4. The contribution of Sri Aurobindo to Indo-English poetry (1952)

5. Architypal pattern in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. (1990)

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Nagpur University - Nagpur

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri in the light of his ‘The future poetry.” (1984)

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Kumaon University - Nainital

1. The treatment of love in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. (1989)

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Pondicherry University - Pondicherry
1. Quest for the spiritual in early modern poetry in the light of
    Sri Aurobindo’s concept. (1993)

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Punjabi University - Patiala

1. A comparative study of educational philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi and
    Sri Aurobindo.

2. A comparative study of Swami Dayananda’s educational philosophy with
    Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy.

3. Sri Aurobindo Ghosh’s educational philosophy.

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Patna University - Patna

1. The literary criticism of Sri Aurobindo (with special reference to poetry).     (1965)

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Satya Sai Institute of Higher Learning - Prashanti-Nilayam

1. Legend, imagery and symbolism in Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. (1984)

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Sambhalpur University - Sambhalpur

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri.

2. Sri Aurobindo’s tragic vision in Rodogune: A study in contrast.

3. Sri Aurobindo’s poetic romances: A feminist study.

4. Sri Aurobindo and the tradition of romance.

5. Sri Aurobindo’s concept of women: A literary analysis.

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Himachal Pradesh University - Shimla

1. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A study in perspective - A Jungion interpretation.     (1993)

2. Aesthetics of Sri Aurobindo. (1984)

3. The feminine principle: A study of Divine Mother and her various aspects in
     Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri. (1987)

4. Sri Aurobindo as a writer of English poetry. (1989)

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University of Kerala - Thiruvananthapuram

1. The mantra of vision - Sri Aurobindo’s concept of overhead poetry. (1990)

2. Sri Aurobindo: the play-wright. (1994)

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Vikram University - Ujjain

1. Smaller poems of Sri Aurobindo - A thematic study.

2. The poetics of Sri Aurobindo.

3. Yoga Sadhana in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy with special reference to
    Tantra.

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Mohanlal Sukhadia University - Udaipur

1. A critical study of mystics in Sri Aurobindo’s poetry with special reference
    to his later sonnets.

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Benares Hindu University - Varanasi

1. Sri Aurobindo as a poetic-dramatist. (1998)

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Andhra University - Waltair

1. The Ideal of Human Unity: A critical study in Sri Aurobindo’s Integral     philosophy.

2. Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri: A study. (1961)

3. Symbolism in the poetry of Sri Aurobindo. (1983)

4. Sri Aurobindo: The critic of English poetry and the prophet of overhead     aesthetics. (1991)

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