Page 16 - Sri Aurobindo on Kurukshetra and Kshatriya Spirit

British rule necessitated the growth of the bourgeois, British

policy fostered it, and the plant grew so swiftly because a

forcing-house had been created for his rapid cultivation and

the soil was kept suitably shallow and the air made warm

and humid for his needs. . . The Pax Britannica was his

parent and an easy servitude nursed him into maturity.

~ Sri Aurobindo, CWSA, 7: 1098