During the period August-November 1918 Sri Aurobindo wrote a series of four articles under the title The Renaissance in India. These had first appeared in his monthly Arya which in 1920 were issued in the form of a book. The book was reissued on a number of occasions later on. In the Birth Centenary edition it appears in The Foundations of Indian Culture as volume 14. This new birth in India is intimately connected with the eternal values of truth for which the country stands, the basis of Sanatan Dharma, the religion perfected and developed through the Rishis, saints and Avatars now going forth to do the divine work among the nations—as Sri Aurobindo spoke at Uttarpara in 1909. In the Renaissance he sees a new birth for India with the possibilities of a force rearising to shape not only its present life but also the future. We present in the following a brief summary of this series of articles.

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