Rabindranath Tagore''s Ideational Universe

This book explores Tagore's 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 bard's 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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Bidyut Chakrabarty, Bidyut (Delhi University Chakrabarty, Bidyut (University of Delhi Chakrabarty
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781032546803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254680-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Society & culture: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Society and culture: general, Indian sub-continent, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, HISTORY / Asia / South / General