Records of Auroville's history during Mother's lifetime are found in
periodicals (Mother India, the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre
of Education, the Information Letter of the Sri Aurobindo Society and the
Gazette Aurovilienne), in books published by disciples (Satprem, Shyam Sunder,
Huta, Savitra), in archives (Sri Aurobindo Society, Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
Auroville), in personal archives as well as in published and unpublished
interviews of disciples (Roger Anger and others). Gilles Guigan, one of the
Aurovilians engaged in the study of the early history of Auroville, shares some
of his findings.
Many Aurovilians think
that the idea for the town which would become Auroville was The Mother’s. It
wasn’t. The idea came from Navajata, the General Secretary of the Sri Aurobindo
Society (SAS), who brought the proposal to the Society’s first World Conference
fifty years ago. On August 14, 1964, it decided “To develop a t...
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