Sri Aurobindo
Bande Mataram
Early Political Writings. 1890 — May 1908
About New Lamps for Old [2]
The title refers to Congress politics1. It is not used in the sense of the Aladdin story, but was intended to imply the offering of new lights to replace the old and faint reformist lights of the Congress.
1 2006 ed. Vol. 36: This title did not refer to Indian civilisation but to Congress politics.