AUROBINDO was born on August 15th, 1872, in Calautta. His father, a man of great ability & stro-ng personality, had been among the first to go to England for his education. He returned entirely anglicised in habits, ideas &ideals,----so strongly that his Aurobindo as a child spoke English & Hi-ndustani only & learned his mother-tonhue only after his return from England. He was determined that his children should receive an entirely Enropean upbringing. While in India they were sent for the beginning of their education to an lrish nuns' school in Darjeeling & in 1879 he took his three sons to England & placed them with an English clergyman & his wife with strict instructions that they should not be allowed to make the acquaintance of any Indian or undergo any Indian influen-ce. These instructions were carried out to the letter & Aurobindo grew up in entier ignorance of India, her people, her religion &her culture.