An enduring icon of India, Rabindranath Tagore made extraordinary contributions as an artist, nationalist, educationist and philosopher. Deeply aware of the historical significance of his times, he built on the heritage of nineteenth-century Indian renaissance to become one of the makers of the modern Indian mind. In this first-of-its-kind intellectual biography, historian Sabyasachi Bhattacharya sketches a compelling portrait of a Tagore who was innately sceptical, self-critical and tormented by conflicts in his inner life . He draws on letters, autobiographical accounts and literary works, some translated for the first time, to explore Tagore s chief dilemmas. He reveals how despite Tagore s apparently contradictory ideas on patriotism and international humanism, modernity and traditional practices, secularism and religious influence, there was a unified vision that tied together his diverse oeuvre. Thoroughly researched and evocatively written, Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation offers profound insights into Tagore s life and multiple influences that shaped his genius.

Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation

Biographies & Memoirs

Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi

Arts & Literature

India Penguin

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume discuses popular movements surrounding the year 1940. It examines movements of labour, peasants, students, women, depressed classes, and those in the princely states and explores their linkages with the freedom struggle. Readership: Scholars, teachers, and students of modern Indian history, particularly those interested in the Indian national movement.

Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1940, Part II (Towards Freedom Series)

History

Panikkar, K.N

Asia

Oxford University Press

The British discourse on India's history, for the greater part of the nineteenth century, was by and large a monologue. This volume highlights how around the turn of the century, Indians began to 'talk back' and question the colonial assumptions in imagining and narrating India's past. Focusing on how the idea of civilization formed one of the strong elements of the Indian nationalist discourse, it examines the debates surrounding the civilization discourse and nationhood. While Gandhi, Tagore, or Nehru were the foremost thought-leaders in the representation of Indian civilization in a new way, the author argues that there were many others, mainly academic intellectuals in the areas of sociology, linguistics, intellectual history, and various branches of historiography, who contributed to make 'Indian civilization' a central theme in all forms of Indian studies.

Talking Back: The Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse

Banglay Sandhikshan P

Sabhyatar Swarup O Bharatiya Jatiyabadi Chintadhara P

Put together for the first time from various published and unpublished sources, this book is a collection of letters and debates exchanged between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore between 1915 and 1941. The introduction by the compilor examines the historical context of the correspondence and provides an overview of the major issues discussed.  This book is a collection of letters and debates exchanged by Mahatma Gandhi and Ranindranath Tagore between 1915 and 1941. They have been put together for the first time from old journals and various published and unpublished sources. The letters, of a private nature, preserved in the archives of Visva-Bharati, the University founded by Tagore, are of great historical interest. The debates are issues which contribute to be relevant to this day and age. An 'Introduction' by the editor examines the historical context of the correspondence and provides an overview of the major questions discussed in these writings.

THE MAHATMA AND THE POET

National Book Trust

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