PETER HEEHS

An American Historian in India

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Peter Heehs writes on modern Indian history, and Indian spirituality and religion. His publications include nine books and more than fifty articles in journals and magazines.

 

His latest book, The Lives of Sri Aurobindowas released by Columbia University Press in 2008.

 

 

 

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"Sri Aurobindo has at last received the scholarly biography he deserves—and we need."

Robert McDermott, author of The Essential Aurobindo


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"In In 2008, Columbia University Press in New York published Peter Heehs’s The Lives of Sri Aurobindo. The product of a lifetime of scholarship, its empirical depth and analytical sharpness is unlikely to be surpassed. For Heehs knows the documentary evidence on and around Aurobindo’s life better than anyone else. He has a deep knowledge of the political and spiritual worlds in which his subject moved and by which he was shaped." >>more

                                   Ramachandra Guha, in the Calcutta Telegraph


 

Read the author's post about the writing of this book on the Columbia University Press blog.


Listen to an interview with the author on the EnlightenNext website.

 

Read an article based on an interview with the author on the Auroville Today website.






All of Peter Heehs's books may be viewed and ordered at Books by Peter Heehs.

 

Contact Information

 

 

 

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