This volume of 22 essays spans a wide trajectory, foregrounding the texts of Tagore and Tagore as text. The Tagorean spirit that makes the bard so relevant in the 21st century forms the basis of this ...compilation. Tagore's travels to various parts of the world, his reception and response to diverse cultures, his scepticism about the rigid parameters of nationalism all establish the perception that Tagore was remarkably at home in the world.
Tagore's concern was with life, play and contingency-with the momentary as well as the eternal. It is this strain of unacknowledged modernism and life-affirming vision that make his work powerful. A believer in freedom of the individual, creative freedom and freedom of all, his words are as pertinent in today's context as they were in his time.
This volume analyses how the constrictions of the specificities of place, location and geographies have always been interrogated by Tagore for whom space was a defining trope. With contributions from some leading Tagore experts both from India and abroad, this volume enables us to re-read Tagore as a messenger of world harmony and peace.
It is very difficult to pin down the genre of literature named "Nonsense" for discussion and analysis. This paper will show how Tagore's Khapchara, written in 1937, emerges as a 'nonsense verse ...collection' through mingling both the Western and Indian tradition of literary nonsense. This paper will also highlight how Khapchara combines nonsensicality and high seriousness. Finally, the paper would tend to locate the enmeshed textuality that can be traced in cities across the globe, especially Calcutta (presently known as Kolkata) through the lyrics written by Tagore. Keywords: Rabindranath Tagore, Khapchara, City, Textuality, Literary Nonsense, Kolkata.
Tagore and China Chung, Tan; Dev, Amiya; Bangwei, Wang ...
06/2011
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Tagore and China is the first full account in English of Rabindranath Tagore's visit to China and its civilizational import. Perhaps for the first time, exhaustive material related to the visit has ...been collected.
The book charts Tagore's 'grand visit' in 1924 undertaken in response to China's 'Tagore fever' and the series of talks he gave there, their antecedents as well as impact. Also discussed is the foundation of Cheena-Bhavana at Visva-Bharati-and thereby of Chinese studies in India-and Tan Yun-shan's lifelong dedication to it and the Sino-Indian love it held.
This well-researched book unearths new material from Chinese sources to confirm the devotion of Tagore's interpreter, poet Xu Zhimo, to him and Tagore's affection for Xu Zhimo. Tagore's two personal visits to Xu Zhimo, preceded by the latter's visit to Santiniketan, have also been detailed.
Supplemented by several rare photographs, Tagore and China is a fitting tribute to Tagore's 150th birth anniversary and is going to be of abiding value to Sino-Indian understanding.
Maneesha and Pradeek discusses the lives and works of two prominent writers from India, Rabindranath Tagore and M. T. Vasudevan Nair. Tagore, born in Calcutta in 1861, dedicated his life to ...education, religion, and peace. He founded the famous Shantiniketan School and received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. Nair, born in Kerala in 1933, is known for his contributions to Indian literature, including novels, short stories, and dramas. Many of his works have been translated into English and Hindi, and he has received numerous awards for his writing. They also offer a a brief overview of their backgrounds and achievements.
In the years 1910-1930, the Indian Rabindranath Tagore was the first living Asian writer to enjoy a world literary fame, which led him to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. In the ...years preceding World War One and in the early 1920s, the circulation of his work in Europe was a two-phase process. First, in terms of location, his work circulated from India to England, and then from England to the other countries. Second, his books were translated from Bengalese to English, before being translated into other European languages. These multiple mediations and these period changes were not without consequences. As a result, Tagore's work was not only read in Europe, but in India, Asia, and across the global world. This article tries to seize the way in which the writer viewed Europe as well as his reception on the continent.
Gandhi and Tagore Mukherji, Gangeya
2016, 20151106, 2015, 2015-11-06
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This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with ...regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern Indian political community.
The comprehensive and textually argued discussion frames the subject of the validity of ethical politics in inhospitable contexts such as the fanatically despotic state and energised nationalism. The book studies in nuanced detail Tagore's opposition to political violence in colonial Bengal, the scope of non-violence and satyagraha as recommended by Gandhi to Jews in Nazi Germany, his response to the complexity of protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, and the differently constituted nationalism of Gandhi and Tagore. It presents their famous debate in a new light, embedded within the dynamics of cultural identification, political praxis and the capacity of a community to imbibe the principles of ethical politics.
Comprehensive and perceptive in analysis, this book will be a valuable addition for scholars and researchers of political science with specialisation in Indian political thought, philosophy and history.
Gangeya Mukherji is Reader in English at Mahamati Prannath Mahavidyalaya, Mau-Chitrakoot, Uttar Pradesh, India.
This article revisits Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism as well as his interventions on the theme of samaj. The claim is that contained within Tagore’s reflections on nationalism and ...samaj is a vision of political community that is stipulated as an alternative to the one espoused by the nation-state mode of politics. Tagore’s formulations of the possibilities within samaj suggest his commitment to normative orders grounded in a notion of relationship as a basis for social cooperation. Tagore contrasts and prioritizes the relationship-based orientation of samaj with what he calls the ‘mechanical’ emphasis of forms of community associated with the nation-state. Tagore articulated his views during the high noon of anti-colonial nationalism in India, and he offers a striking secular and modern political alternative to nationalist visions of community, which I classify as upholding a vision of societal politics. In underscoring the modern and political bases of Tagore’s critique of nationalism and his endorsement of social and political forms related to samaj, I suggest that it would be a mistake to classify Tagore’s perspective on nationalism and samaj as reflecting anti-political, or local-traditionalist, or aesthetic responses to the problems attached to national models of community.
This paper looks at Rabindranath Tagore, the great Indian writer, as a polymath, a man crossing literary, artistic, intellectual, linguistic and civilizational borders of all kinds, and as someone ...whose imagination was always in flight. It sees him as someone who, time and again, kept trying his hand at all sorts of things, despite the difficulties he faced and the challenges ahead of him. He thus worked also as a reform-oriented educator and as someone committed to educational and agricultural ventures. The paper also notes the polymathic travails Tagore occasionally encountered and the indiscretions that sometimes resulted from his scanting of borders. It traces the main features of his polymathic voyaging from his youth to the final months of his life and stresses the growth and vitality of his imaginings.
