An American Historian in India

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 Aurobindo, was 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