'TAGORE REVISITED' is a collection of fifteen well researched articles on a wide range of topics related to Rabindranath Tagore's life, thought and vision presented at a two-day national seminar organized by Institute of Historical Studies Kolkata to commemorate 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore. The programme was sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India.
The volume opens with Uma Dasgupta's essay on 'Rabindranath Tagore's Visvabharati Experiment at Santiniketan and Sriniketan (1901-41) where she focuses on Tagore's education, philosophy as an endeavour to a new alternative form of education nationally and internationally combined with his ideas for a world change.
Reba Som takes us to 'Rabindranath Tagore: The nation and the world' where she draws our attention to Tagore's interplay of nationalism with internationalism and finally to the crescendo of universalism in the normative thought and political practice.
Hasi Banerjee's article on 'Nationalism and Culture: Rabindranath Tagore and his critics' highlights Tagore's nationalist ideology, his sources of inspiration through his literary writings tracing down to current researches on this subject. She upholds Tagore's creative mind with a creative approach trying to create India and the world of vision and interpretation in which man and his freedom occupy the central place.
Deepkanta Lahiri Chowdhury in his essay 'Rabindranath Tagore: Transnationalism and transhumanism' tries to explore the early years of Tagore's links with Aurobindo Ghosh. The article to set on the back drop of the Swadeshi movement leading to the rise of extremist politics when the author makes a comparative study between Rabindranath and Aurobindo Ghosh's conception of universalism and humanism while projecting nationalism through their writings.
While 'Exploring the political philosophy of Rabindranath', Md. Khairul Anam discusses that there is no contradiction or conflict between Rabindranath's constructive nationalism and internationalism. He was a true believer in universalism.
We have two valuable essays on women's issues and Rabindranath. Sanjukta Dasgupta's essay on 'Constructing the new woman: Tagore's textual strategies' is a brilliant presentation where women of 19th century Bengal script their identities through Tagorean literature. The new woman is a cultural construct symbolic of lived experiences of the challenged traditional stereotypes tracked in a transgressive role. These were the inevitable transformations that were affecting the rigorous patriarchal system. The new woman of Tagore in colonial Bengal is not a replica of her British sister in the mainland yet there are certain similarities despite differences with regard to female education and the public or private dichotomy that included professions for women which is an interesting aspect of the article itself.
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