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Discusses Tagore's uniquely varied output across literature, music, art, philosophy, history, politics, education and public affairs.
List of contents
List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Note on Conventions and Practices; 1. Rabindranath Tagore: From Art to Life Sankha Ghosh; 2. A Garland of Many Tagores Anisuzzaman; Part I. Overviews: 3. Rabindranath and His Times Biswajit Ray; 4. Tagore's Poetry: An Overview Sukanta Chaudhuri; 5. 'Something of a Musician': Tagore's Songs Ashish Lahiri; 6. Rabindranath Tagore: Drama and Performance Ananda Lal; 7. Imagined Worlds: The Prose Fiction of Rabindranath Tagore Supriya Chaudhuri; 8. The English Writings: An Overview Fakrul Alam; 9. Tagore and Indian Literature: Influence and Presence Harish Trivedi; 10. Rabindranath Tagore and Literary Communication across Borders Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta; 11. Tagore and the Visual Arts R. Siva Kumar; Part II. Studies: 12. Women, Gender, and the Family in Tagore Himani Bannerji; 13. On the Seashore of Endless Worlds: Rabindranath and the Child Sibaji Bandyopadhyay; 14. Tagore's View of History Sabyasachi Bhattacharya; 15. Tagore's View of Politics and the Contemporary World Sobhanlal Datta Gupta; 16. Tagore's Santiniketan: Learning Associated with Life Kathleen M. O'Connell; 17. Tagore and Village Economy: A Vision of Wholeness Sourin Bhattacharya; 18. An Ecology of the Spirit: Rabindranath's Experience of Nature Aseem Shrivastava; 19. Rabindranath and Science Partha Ghose; 20. Rabindranath Tagore as Literary Critic Swapan Chakravorty; 21. Tagore's Aesthetics Jayanti Chattopadhyay; 22. Rabindranath, Bhakti, and the Bhakti Poets France Bhattacharya; 23. Tagore and the Idea of Emancipation Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty; 24. Tagore's Thoughts on Religion Shefali Moitra; 25. Rabindranath Tagore and Humanism Saranindranath Tagore; List of Tagore's Works Cited: Bibliography-cum-index; Further Reading; Index of Other Keywords.
About the author
Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Jadavpur University, where he founded the School of Cultural Texts and Records. Besides his work on Shakespeare and other Renaissance literature, he was chief co-ordinator of the Tagore online variorum Bichitra, and general editor of the Oxford Tagore Translations.
Summary
This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore's multi-faceted genius. It will cater to students and scholars of Indian and world literature, even those who know Bengali; also of Indian history, culture, philosophy, music, art, and South Asia studies.
