Surendranath Jauhar's Correspondence with The Mother

Born on 13 August 1903 in the Jhelum District of Punjab, now in Pakistan, Surendranath Jauhar first met the Mother in December 1939 at the age of thirty-six. Though he continued to live in New Delhi, he visited the Ashram regularly. Many of his family members came to live in the Ashram. In 1956, with the Mother's blessings, Surendranath founded the Delhi Branch of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and its school, the Mother's School in Delhi. During the last thirty years of his life, Surendranath developed the Delhi Ashram and its school and also established a centre near Nainital in the Himalayas. He passed away on 2 September 1986 at the age of eighty-three.

Surendranath's correspondence with the Mother covers the period from 1951 to 1972.