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Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World - Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society (Paperback)
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Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World - Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's English
language writings, this book places the work of India's greatest
Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial
history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and
imperial/postcolonial historiography. Using detailed archival
research, the book charts the origins of Tagore's ideas in Indian
religious traditions and discusses the impact of early Indian
nationalism on Tagore's thinking. It offers a new interpretation of
Tagore's complex debates with Gandhi about the colonial encounter,
Tagore's provocative analysis of the impact of British imperialism
in India and his questioning of nationalism as a pathway to
authentic postcolonial freedom. The book also demonstrates how the
man and his ideas were received and interpreted in Britain during
his lifetime and how they have been sometimes misrepresented by
nationalist historians and postcolonial theorists after Tagore's
death. An alternative interpretation based on an intellectual
history approach, this book places Tagore's sense of agency, his
ideas and intentions within a broader historical framework.
Offering an exciting critique of postcolonial theory from a
historical perspective, it is a timely contribution in the wake of
the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth in 2011.
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