Title: Tagore: the World as His Nest
Editors: Sangeeta Datta and Subhoranjan Dasgupta
Cover: Urmirupa Pal
Year: 2016
Pages: 222
ISBN 13: 978-93-83660-14-8
Price: ₹ 900; GBP 18.99
Contributors:
Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Aveek Sen
Barnita Bagchi
Bhaswati Chakravorty
Himani Bannerji
Reba Som
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Sarmistha Dutta Gupta
Suman Mukhopadhyay
Supriya Chaudhuri
Tista Bagchi
This anthology brings together twelve essays on the creative and intellectual cosmopolitanism which Rabindranath Tagore held as an essential element of his negotiations of modernity. From the 1920s, Tagore began to distance himself from ideas of nation and nationalism which were limited by political contingency, and move towards a philosophy of universal humanism associated with creative freedom. This found expression in a whole range of critical and creative responses, in literature, music, politics, pedagogy, rural reconstruction, utopianism and race. The essays in this volume, written by some of the finest scholars working in the field, situate Tagore in the context of both Indian and European modernisms, not only in his own time but also in the continuing exploration and interpretation of his work in the present century.
