1st Edition
Socio-Political Thought of Rabindranath Tagore A Universalist Voice in the Nationalist Context
By Bidyut Chakrabarty
Copyright 2025
314 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
314 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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This book is a political biography of Rabindranath Tagore. It identifies the principal threads in Tagore’s ideational universe and discusses them with reference to his written treatises. The book looks at the issues that made Tagore a thinker of visions and were complementary to the uplift of humanity regardless of race, religion and ethnicity. According to Tagore, religion, caste and gender were... Read more
Preface and acknowledgements viii Introduction xv 1 Tagore’s conceptual universe 1 2 Tagore and the nationalist voice 46 3 Rabindranath Tagore’s distinct approach to socio-economic reconstruction 76 4 Rabindranath Tagore on gender 115 5 Rabindranath Tagore and education 159 6 Rabindranath Tagore and humanism 194 Conclusion 239 Bibliography 264 Index 269
Biography
Bidyut Chakrabarty was former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati in 2018, he served the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, for more than three decades. He has published in many areas of Political Science.
