Netaji, Hindutva and Nationalism
The profound Impact that Aurobindo Ghosh had
on Subhas Chandra Bose is reflected in his autobiography: “In my undergraduate
days, Aurobindo Ghosh was easily the most popular leader in Bengal… a mixture
of spirituality and politics had given him a halo of mysticism and made his
personality more fascinating to those who were religiously inclined… We felt
convinced that spiritual enlightenment was necessary for effective national
service…”
It is, therefore, not surprising that he
should have also been influenced by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee’s construction of
nationalism. And like Aurobindo Ghosh, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee and Bal
Gangadhar Tilak, the Indian nation for him extended beyond the geographical to
the devotional plane. During his college days he discovered the wretchedness of
not India but “impoverished Mother India.”
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