He is the most dangerous man we have to deal with, repeatedly wrote Lord Minto, the Governor General of India in his bid to persuade Lord Morley, the Secretary of State for India, to deport Sri Aurobindo, while Rabindranath Tagore hailed him as Voice Incarnate of Indias soul and Ramsay MacDonald, the Labour M.P. and the future Prime Minister of Great Britain asserted in the House of Commons, in the first ever long debate and probably the last on any individual Indian leader, that Sri Aurobindo is the one guarantee that there shall be no violence in India! And the earliest historian of the freedom struggle, Dr. Pattabhi Sitaramayya, affirmed (1938). Sri Aurobindo shone for years as the brightest star on the Indian firmament... His genius shot up like a meteor... He flooded the land from Cape to Mount with the effulgence of his light. Have the subsequent records and comments done justice to such momentous observations of that early phase of our freedom struggle? This work may enliven that question
