Tagore and Nationalism

Book Overview

Foreword: CHETAN SINGH.- 1. Introduction: K L TUTEJA and KAUSTAV CHAKRABORTY.- PART I: Nationalism, Ambivalence and Tagore.- 2. Rethinking Tagore on the Antinomies of Nationalism: SABYASACHI BHATTACHARYA.- 3. 1910 and the Evolution of Rabindranath Tagore's Vernacular Nationalism: KRISHNA SEN.- 4. Language, Nationalism and Tagore: TILOTTOMA MISRA.- 5. Tagore, Nationalism and Imperialism: SUKANTA CHAUDHURI.- 6. Tagore's Nation: Swadeshi Samaj and the Political Novel: MAKARAND R. PARANJAPE.- 7. Santiniketan, the Making of a Community: R. SIVA KUMAR.- 8. The Pathography of Nationalism: Tagore's Critique of the Idea of the Nation: K. SATCHIDANANDAN.- 9. Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity: FAKRUL ALAM.- PART II: Nation and Textual Representations 10.History, Identity and Nation in Tagore's Fiction: SUPRIYA CHAUDHURI.- 11. The Self, the Nation and the World Beyond It: Reading Tagore's Travel Writings: BHASKAR CHAKRABARTY.- 12.'Pollution complex', Tagore and the Tabooed Nation: Revisiting the Select Short Stories: KAUSTAV CHAKRABORTY.- 13. Tagore's Ghaire Baire (Home and the World) and Char Adhyaya (Four Chapters): Rethinking Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Gender: BIRAJ MEHTA RATHI.- PART III: National Discourse under the Comparative Lens 14. Tagore's Nationalism and Premchand's: HARISH TRIVEDI.- 15. Language, Nation, Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Epistemology of Education: RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR.- 16. The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi's ideas on Nationalism: BASHABI FRASER.- 17. Rabindranath Tagore's Use of Guru Gobind Singh as a Nationalist Icon: CHHANDA CHATTERJEE.- 18. Nation and Civil Society as Spheres of "Enlightenment" The Dialogue of Gandhi and Tagore, and Ambedkarite Inflection: SUKUMAR MURALIDHARAN.- 19. Ideas on Nationalism in Tagore and Unamuno: A Comparative Study: SWAGATA KUMAR BASU.- 20. Tagore and Nationalism: A Perspective on Italy Imagining the Indian Unity: STEFANO BEGGIORA.- PART IV: Interrogating Nationalism in Art and Culture 21. From Rabindranath Tagore to Rituporno Ghosh: Domestic space, Gender and the Nation in Chokher Bali: PATHIK ROY.- 22. Nation and Partition: Tagore Reinvented by Ritwik Ghatak: MANAS GHOSH.- 23. The Useless and the 'Wonderful': Work, Leisure and Being 'at Home in Modernity' in the Music of Rabindranath Tagore: SAURAV DASTHAKUR.- 24. Dancing against the Nation? Politics versus Performance in Tagore's Politics of Performance: AISHIKA CHAKRABORTY

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8132238885
• ISBN13: 9788132238881
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"