Mind-Benders of Hindu History
A Cambridge-educated revolutionary who spent 40 years in a French colonial town
Sri Aurobindo was sent to England at age 7 and educated there, including at King's College, Cambridge. After returning to India he became a nationalist and was tried in the 1908 Alipore Bomb Case, then released for lack of evidence; in 1910 he moved to Pondicherry, then a French territory, and remained there for the last 40 years of his life until his death in 1950.
How we know
Born 15 Aug 1872; sent to England 1879 (age 7); St. Paul's School then King's College, Cambridge; Alipore Bomb Case 1908 (released for lack of evidence, May 1909); reached Pondicherry 4 Apr 1910; died 5 Dec 1950 (1950−1910 = 40 years).
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