Sri Aurobindo in Calcutta 1907
![Sri Aurobindo's first preoccupation was to declare openly for complete and absolute independence as the aim of political action in India and to insist on this persistently in the pages of the journal [Bande Mataram]; he was the first politician in India who had the courage to do this in public and he was immediately successful.](https://sa15.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SA_CALCUTTA_23_08_1907.gif)
Sri Aurobindo’s first preoccupation was to declare openly for complete and absolute independence as the aim of political action in India and to insist on this persistently in the pages of the journal [Bande Mataram]; he was the first politician in India who had the courage to do this in public and he was immediately successful.