.... It argues that Keshab’s influence in Bengali intellectual history has been underestimated, and explores his connections to figures including Swami Vivekananda, Brahmobandhab Upadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore. The chapter concludes that the universalism Keshab propounded was impossible to realize...

... are intertwined in Bhakti poetry and expresses his views about Muslims and Hindus in India, mystical ecstasy and sexual ecstasy, mysticism, his novel Ecstasy where he tackles the historical relationship between Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda, and whether Rabindranath Tagore’s...

... “Communal Patriot The” Ali Comrade newspaper ethnic distinctions aesthetic judgment and Robbins Bruce territorial nationality communal patriotism Bengali poems translation of Rabindranath Tagore Translation Internationalism Comparison World Literature India h. g. wells: We are gradually...

... Shambhu Mookerjee Sir Birendranath Ramayana Straight Dorothy Asianism Chelmsford Lord Dyer General Reginald translation Shakti Baul Lal Ananda Ambedkar B R Visva Bharati Quarterly publication Naoroji Dadabhai William Butler Yeats Rabindranath Tagore Lady Augusta Gregory Widow narratives...

... Korczak Janusz Warsaw Ghetto hunger Parvin Jill memorialization purdah Besant Annie Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Indian National Congress New India publication Tilak Bal Gangadhar Home Rule Muslim League World War One Gide André William Butler Yeats Rabindranath Tagore The Post Office...

...Modern Writers, Transnational Literatures offers a fresh critical perspective on the work of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats from the beginning of the twentieth century, the point at which their international collaborations most significantly influence the cross-border lives...

...This chapter is a transnational study that draws into focus the globalized modernist dialogue between artistic traditions. This dialogue is invited through both Wong’s investigation of the little known paintings, drawings and collages, rather than poetry, of Rabindranath Tagore. Rather than...

... of contemporary Bengali society and determines what aspects of it call for a new cinematic imagination. The chapter also provides a close reading of Chokher Bali, Rabindranath Tagore's 1902 novel, alongside Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 2002 film Devdas-which itself is an adaptation...

... of Darkness Ma Meyrick Kew Pagoda Limehouse Nights Rabindranath Tagore Opium Wars Thomas De Quincey Ebenezer Howard Behavioural trends in post-war London, as Douglas Goldring, former Vorticist associate and man-about-town recalled, encompassed ‘co-educationists, Morris-dancers, vegetarians...

...This article examines the imminent demise of liberal education and the relevant works of Rabindranath Tagore and John Dewey. It suggests that though Tagore and Dewey never met or worked together, their thought was similarly inspired by the deadness of traditional education, its failure to stimulate...

... Swarnakumari Devi Rabindranath Tagore Western feminism Iconic tropes Transnational literary genealogy Virginia Woolf tells us in A Room of One’s Own (1929) “a woman writing thinks back through her mothers” (97), an observation that took on allegorical weight in generations of feminist...

...Fathers in a Motherland. Swapna M. Banerjee, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press India 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9789391050245.003.0005 Chapter 5 examines Rabindranath Tagore as a father and an educator and his conceptualization of an alternate education and masculinity...

...This chapter considers interpretations of the Second World War as a profound historical crisis by two colonial intellectuals—diasporic author M. J. Tambimuttu experiencing the London Blitz and poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore writing his final essays in India. The chapter shows how the long...

... They blind the sun’s world-seeing eye. Dispatch this old fool to the West To learn the art of killing fast—and best. ¹⁴² Even before the outbreak of the war, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore was one of the most widely known Indians to advocate new thinking about the future...

... Nagendranath Lévy Bruhl Lucien Weber Max Auden Wystan Hugh Cunard Nancy T. S. Eliot Rabindranath Tagore Irving Babbitt Hinduism Buddhism classicism Romanticism mysticism on 19 September 1923, T. S. Eliot received a letter from a Mr Stanley Rice, Indian civil servant and Orientalist, who...

...This is the chapter in which I deal with Ray’s last three films, which constitute a statement on civilisation as he saw it, much in the same vein as Rabindranath Tagore’s. The wise men in them, in some way, reflect on Satyajit Ray’s own self-image and are a consequence of his mythical stature...

...This chapter reflects on the adequacy of the word ‘cosmopolitanism’ to describe the universal avocations of both Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin. While both Tagore and Okakura presented themselves to rapt audiences as representatives of ‘India’ and ‘Japan’ respectively, they also seemed...

...This chapter begins with the libretto of The White Fox, Okakura Tenshin's last creative experiment, throwing out a few questions on love and friendship. It looks at the masculinities of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura, in their very different life practices and relationships...

...This chapter presents an excerpt from Rabindranath Tagore’s “Pathway to Mukti,” an address he delivered in 1925 as President of the Indian Philosophical Congress. Tagore was a prolific and accomplished poet, novelist, and playwright, and is perhaps best known for his literary output, a massive...