About Peter Heehs. My name is Peter Heehs and I am a historian based in Pondicherry, India. My historical work falls into four main categories: studies of the life and thought of Sri Aurobindo, of the history of modern India, of the history of Indian philosophy and religion, and of general historiography and the history of ideas. This website is structured around these four main areas of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 3 mins. I have called this book The Lives of Sri Aurobindo to highlight his many-sidedness. In each of the book’s parts, one of his personas predominates. Part One, “Son,” covers his early years in India. In , Columbia University Press in New York published Peter Heehs’s The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. The product of a lifetime of scholarship, its empirical depth and analytical sharpness is unlikely to be surpassed. For Heehs knows the documentary evidence on .
Peter Heehs. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. Contents. Preface. Acknowledgments. Note on Proper Names. Part One: Son. I. Early Years in India. Bengal, Peter Heehs, an American historian, who lives in the Sri Aurobindo ashram, Puducherry, has attempted to recount the life of 20th century's greatest avatar, in The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, by Peter Heehs, is a definitive biography, and combines his life story and history in a meticulously researched and well-written narrative. No other historian today has the depth, breadth, and intimate understanding of Sri Aurobindo. This book is an expansion of Heehs' earlier book, "Sri Aurobindo: A Brief Biography.
Biographers usually focus solely on Aurobindo's life as a politician or sage, but he was also a scholar, a revolutionary, a poet, a philosopher, a social and cultural theorist, and the inspiration for an experiment in communal living. Peter Heehs, one of the founders of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Archives, is the first to relate all the aspects of Aurobindo's life in its entirety. Peter Heehs is an acknowledged expert on the history of modern India, on Indian spiritual traditions, and on Sri Aurobindo and his philosophy. His books are published by university presses in the United States and India, and reviewed in such journals as History and Theory, Asian Studies Journal, and Philosophy East and West. He has contributed essays on historiography and cultural studies to History and Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Modern Asian Studies, and other journals, and popular. Peter Heehs’s widely praised biography, The Lives of Sri Aurobindo, was released by Columbia University Press in “The product of a lifetime of scholarship, its empirical depth and analytical sharpness is unlikely to be surpassed. For Heehs knows the documentary evidence on and around Aurobindo’s life better than anyone else.
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