1. Presents a collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore's creative art, social commitment, literary and artistic representation, and his unique position in the cultural history of modern India. 2. Contributors from India, Bangladesh, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and Romania look at a diversity of subjects including the travelogues, fiction, philosophy and cinematic representation of Tagore. 3. Tagore has a large following across the world - amongst the diaspora and outside it. This book will find circulation among them and also in departments of literature, comparative litereature, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies, and Tagore studies.

1. Presents a collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore's creative art, social commitment, literary and artistic representation, and his unique position in the cultural history of modern India. 2. Contributors from India, Bangladesh, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and Romania look at a diversity of subjects including the travelogues, fiction, philosophy and cinematic representation of Tagore. 3. Tagore has a large following across the world - amongst the diaspora and outside it. This book will find circulation among them and also in departments of literature, comparative litereature, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies, and Tagore studies.