1st Edition

Rabindranath Tagore's Ideational Universe

By Bidyut Chakrabarty Copyright 2024
242 Pages
by Routledge India

242 Pages
by Routledge India

242 Pages
by Routledge India

This book explores Tagore’s socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays. It looks at Tagore beyond his literary achievements and examines his notions of friendship, religion, nationalism, civilization, and knowledge. It highlights his uniquely textured and innovatively argued views on critical aspects of humanity in the tumultuous phase of Indian nationalist campaign that... Read more

Introduction

1 Rabindranath Tagore: The idea of friendship

2 Religion

3 Rabindranath Tagore: Reconceptualizing nationalism

4 Civilization and its distortions

5 Knowledge generation and dissemination

Conclusion

Biography

Bidyut Chakrabarty is Vice Chancellor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.