Rabindranath Tagore

Rethinking Asia, multiplying modernity

by alastair bonnett

in Delanty, G. (Ed.) (2006) Europe and Asia Beyond East and West, London, Routledge, pp.269-283

Asian occidentalism and rediscovered modernities

by alastair bonnett

in Browning, C. and Lehti, M. (Eds) (2010) The Struggle for the West: A Divided and Contested Legacy London, Routledge, pp.201-217

‘The Poet’s Religion’ and ‘The Religion of Man’ In the Works of Rabindranath Tagore (With Special Reference to Gitanjali and Fruit Gathering)

by Jon Douglas Anderson

Tagore, Samavaya and Aesthetics

by Anup Dhar

Tagore's Paintings: a Creation of Geniusi

by Rajdeep Konar

Tagore's Nation (an essay by Bikash Chakraborty)

by Rajiv Roy

"Occidentalism and plural modernities: or how Fukuzawa and Tagore invented the West"

by alastair bonnett

Bonnett A, 2005, "Occidentalism and plural modernities: or how Fukuzawa and Tagore invented the West" Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 23(4) 505 – 525

The conflation of the West with modernity is being challenged by new critical interventions on the themes of... more The conflation of the West with modernity is being challenged by new critical interventions on the themes of ‘occidentalism’ and ‘plural modernities’. In this paper I bring these themes together into an account of the way the idea of the West has been employed and deployed in the construction of non-Western modernities. This is done in the company of two important figures in the articulation and invention of the West, the Japanese ‘Westerniser’ Fukuzawa Yukichi and the Indian poet and advocate of spiritual Asia Rabindranath Tagore. Fukuzawa and Tagore developed contrasting narratives both of the West and of Asia, narratives which they employed to express novel and distinctive visions of the nature of modern life.

The Structure of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali

by Brahma Dutta Sharma

Brahma Dutta Sharma, The Structure of Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, Essays on Rabindranath Tagore, ed. Prof.  T. R. Sharma (Ghaziabad: Vimal Prakashan, 1987), pp. 59-64.

Tagore în Romania (Bibliotheca Indica, IV, 1999)

by Liviu Bordas

Istrati, Rolland şi reprezentanţii "Renaşterii indiene" (Idei în dialog, II, nr. 8, 2005)

by Liviu Bordas

Book Review:" The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore," by Kalyan Sen Gupta

by Matthew LoPresti

The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, by Kalyan Sen Gupta. Philosophy East and West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy 58 (1) (January 2008): 147-152.

Discerning the philosophy of a poet is a difficult task. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a visionary whose music,... more Discerning the philosophy of a poet is a difficult task. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a visionary whose music, poetry, dramas, essays, and novels drew inspiration from Western greats and the ancient seers of Classical India alike. As a literary figure and thinker he fits as well in the South Asian tradition as he does in the Western and, as such, is one of modernity’s first global literati. Kalyan Sen Gupta draws on these sources to piece together a social and spiritual vision of the man in his book, presenting problematic tensions within Tagore’s thought and plausible resolutions to these tensions in his writings.

The Theme of Alienation in Gitanjali

by Susheel Sharma

‘The Theme of Alienation in Gitanjali’, Essays on Rabindranath Tagore, ed. Prof. T. R. Sharma (Ghaziabad: Vimal Prakashan, 1987), pp. 84-101.

The paper traces the causes of Tagore's sorrow and susequent alienation; how the songs reflect his own sadness; it... more The paper traces the causes of Tagore's sorrow and susequent alienation; how the songs reflect his own sadness; it discusses in detail as to how the individual suffers from alienation and how the entire society can suffer from it and face it; also the ways out as suggested by Tagore have been discussed in a comprehensive study of Tagore's magnum opus.