History, as it has generally been conceived and written in modern times, has limited itself to the outer narration and interpretation of events and ignored the psychological forces and factors that affect human life. This predominance of external events has been so great that most modern historians and political thinkers have concluded that objective necessities are by law of nature, the only really determining forces; all else is result or superficial accidents ...
In the early part of the twentieth century, Sri Aurobindo wrote: “For this thing is written in the book of God and nothing can prevent it that the national life of India will meet and possess its divine and mighty destiny†Sri Aurobindo had taken an active part in the Freedom movement and on 15 August 1947, India got its freedom but it was a fissured freedom. On that very same day with regard to the partition, Sri Aurobindo said: “This must not be; the ...