Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore

Author: Patrick Colm Hogan

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780838639801

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This collection provides a lucid introduction for those unfamiliar with Tagore's work, while simultaneously presenting importnat new scholarship and novel interpretation. Rabindranath Tagore is considered the greatest modern writer of India. He is also one of the great social and political figures in modern Indian history. After he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, Tagore's reputation in the West has been based primarily on his mystical poetry. But beyond poetry, Tagore wrote novels of social realism, treating nationalism, religious intolerance, and violence. He wrote analytic works on social reform, education, and science- even engaging in a brief dialogue with Albert Einstein. Without ignoring religion and mysticism, the essays in this collection concentrate on this other Tagore. They explicate Tagore's writings in relation to its historical and literary context and, at the same time, draw out those aspects of Tagore's work that continue to bear on contemporary society.

The Indian ImagiNation
The Indian ImagiNation

Author: Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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Contributed papers presented at the conference organized by the Indian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held at Visva-Bharati, Santinketan in Feb. 3-5, 2006.

The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender
The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender

Author: Himani Bannerji

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 819

ISBN-13: 900444162X

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The Ideological Condition is a feminist critique of ideology as a barrier to self and social transformation. Himani Bannerji explores the problematic of praxis by connecting forms of consciousness and politics. We see how people make history in spite of hegemony.

The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind
The Brahmo Samaj and the Shaping of the Modern Indian Mind

Author: David Kopf

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1400869897

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As the forerunners of Indian modernization, the community of Bengali intellectuals known as the Brahmo Samaj played a crucial role in the genesis and development of every major religious, social, and political movement in India from 1820 to 1930. David Kopf launches a comprehensive generation- to-generation study of this group in order to understand the ideological foundations of the modern Indian mind. His book constitutes not only a biographical and a sociological study of the Brahmo Samaj, but also an intellectual history of modern India that ranges from the Unitarian social gospel of Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore's universal humanism and Jessie Bose's scientism. From a variety of biographical sources, many of them in Bengali and never before used in research, the author makes available much valuable information. In his analysis of the interplay between the ideas, the consciousness, and the lives of these early rebels against the Hindu tradition, Professor Kopf reveals the subtle and intricate problems and issues that gradually shaped contemporary Indian consciousness. What emerges from this group portrait is a legacy of innovation and reform that introduced a rationalist tradition of thought, liberal political consciousness, and Indian nationalism, in addition to changing theology and ritual, marriage laws and customs, and the status of women. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Literary India
Literary India

Author: Patrick Colm Hogan

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780791423950

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This book analyzes a variety of materials from the Indian literary tradition. examining both its indigenous development and its relation to the West, and developing ideas from cultural criticism, literary theory, linguistics, and Indology.

Gora
Gora

Author: Rabindranath Tagore

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-02-10

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 818475728X

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Nobel Prize-winning author Rabindranath Tagore’s most ambitious work Gora unfolds against the vast, dynamic backdrop of Bengal under British rule, a divided society struggling to envisage an emerging nation. It is an epic saga of India’s nationalist awakening, viewed through the eyes of one young man, an orthodox Hindu who defines himself against the British colonialist culture and finds himself approaching his nationalist identity through the prism of organized religion. First published in 1907, Gora questions the dogmas and presuppositions inherent in nationalist thought like few books have dared to do. This new, lucid and vibrant translation brings the complete and unabridged text of the classic to a new generation of readers, underlining its contemporary relevance.

Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration
Tagore’s Solutions for Colonial Degeneration

Author: Amartya Mukhopadhyay

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-12

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1003829767

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This book focuses on Rabindranath Tagore as a social and political thinker revolving around Tagore’s ideas on the seeds of civil society, nation, identities, and communities in the Indic tradition. The author deconstructs Tagore’s concepts against the appropriate resurgent and triumphalist Western concepts in the updated Western social thought and theories. The book examines Tagore’s understanding of the nature of the civil social sphere in India and analyzes the relevance of his civil social concepts against the backdrop of colonialism in India. It also discusses his views on nation and nationalism in India and his insights into the problems and prospects of intercommunity, particularly Hindu-Muslim relations in India. Applying current social science and Western literature in an unprecedented manner to interpret Tagore, this book will be of great interest to scholars, teachers, and students of politics, nationalism, postcolonialism, history, comparative literature, sociology, religious studies, and South Asian studies.