ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on this area, as the aim is to understand that his notion of nationalism and state are dialectically linked, given that nationalism provided the foundation on which the state evolved. Similarly, the death of Lajpat Rai due to the severe injury he suffered during the peaceful dharna in Lahore in 1928 also revealed the inhuman character of the British state. Primary here was the argument that humanity had progressed in order to improve one's situation and to be released from incessant struggles with nature and from those seeking to suppress one section for their benefit. The caste system had survived even in the midst of severe challenges by many reformers, which, as he argued, was a testimony of how nature behaved to retain some of the vestiges of past civilizational and customary practices. The crux here is the conception that change in history was inevitable, argued Aurobindo.
