...This chapter shines light on the complex interweaving of paternalism and nationalism in two of Tagore’s political novels: Gora and The Home and the World. It is cognizant that Tagore speaks to key moments of India’s colonial history which include the First War...

...This chapter examines the formation of a social group of Muslim traders called the doomu ndaar that lived in Saint-Louis during nineteenth and twentieth centuries when the city was still under French control. It specifically highlights the life of Hamet Gora Diop, one...

...This article discusses the relationship between Punjabi Sikhs and Gora (‘white’) Sikhs as it has developed since the early 1970s, when a Punjabi Sikh immigrant, calling himself Yogi Bhajan, initiated an unprecedented conversion of young Americans and Canadians to Sikhism through his Healthy, Happy...

...This chapter outlines why people like B. R. Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ramaswami Periyar, Abraham Kovor, as well as M. N. Roy and his Radical Humanists and Gora and his Atheist Centre, are often considered by the contemporary rationalist organisations to be their “ancestors”. Further, the role...

... modes and the converging and diverging strands that existed between the works of these women directors. The succeeding sections of this chapter concentrate on Rabindranath Tagore’s novel Gora, which engages with the notions of cultural, political, and gender identity, particularly...

... to the Allied cause, while helping him obtain unity among, and loyalty from, the insurgent forces. The chapter then highlights the idea of a 'Ravna Gora movement,' which would reorganise Yugoslavia into a state with social justice and without political differences, and one where Serbs would never again...

... collaborations with the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. It also chronicles Prokofiev's hospitalizations and his solitary existence with his second wife Mira Mendelson in Nikolina Gora, where, in his final months, he conceived a series of works in the spirit of Bach. The chapter concludes with an assessment...