1st Edition

Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration Indic Societalism, Nation, Identities, and Communities

By Amartya Mukhopadhyay Copyright 2024
244 Pages
by Routledge India

244 Pages
by Routledge India

244 Pages
by Routledge India

This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. The author deconstructs Tagore’s concepts against the appropriate resurgent and triumphalist Western concepts in the updated Western social thought and theories. The book examines Tagore’s... Read more

      1. Introduction: Dissevering Tagore’s  Politics in the Colonial Context  2. ‘Public’ or ‘Societalism’? Tagore’s Quest for a Civil Social Sphere in India in the Context of Colonialism 3. Ending AlieNation: Restoring the Nationness in and of Bhāratavarşīya Samāj and Prognosis of Nationalism amid Globalization 4. Cassandra’s Admonitions: Tagore on Identities of  Hindus and Muslims in India and Their Relations 5. A Postface Rather Than a Conclusion

Biography

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics and sociology of literature. His recent publications include India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Coedited) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013); and Bengali Fiction, Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang) (2023).