Rabindranath Tagore's Ideational Universe [Paperback]

This book explores Tagores 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 also witnessed a kaleidoscope of myriad ideological voices, besides the hegemonic mainstream nationalist campaign, led by Gandhi. It captures the bards creative ideational priorities and his attempts to radically transform the prevalent socio-economic and politico-cultural environment.

The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, politics, literature, and South Asian studies.

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

This book explores Tagores socio-political ideas through his novels, short stories, and essays.

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