Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

ISBN-13: 9781032631240 / Twarda / 2023 / 250 str.

India) Mukhopadhyay Amartya (University of Calcutta

Opis

This book focuses on India’s anti-colonial politics which Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) brought into the mainstream of nationalist thinking. 

Spis treści

 1. Introduction: Tagore’s Mainstreaming of the Issues Existing on the Side-lines of Anticolonial Politics in India 2. Acquiescence in, Protest against, and Prevarication about Patriarchy: Change of Tagore’s Gender Thinking in a ‘Ruthless’ Novel, Eight ‘Subjunctive’ Stories and Four ‘Indicative’ Ones 3. Inconsistent Feminist?: A Study of Tagore’s  Genres of Feminist Writing 4. Industrial Revolution’s Engineers in Tagore’s Tinsangī Stories and Their Capitalist Ethic 5. Journey from Shallow to Deep Ecology and Tagore’s ‘Green Fuse’

O autorze

Amartya Mukhopadhyay is former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department and Dean, Faculty of Arts and Commerce at Kalyani University, India; and former Professor and Chair of Political Science Department, Calcutta University, India. His research interests include political theory, political thought, IR theory, policy studies, cultural politics and sociology of literature. His recent publications include, India in Russian Orientalism: Travel Narratives and Beyond (2013); (Coedited) Contextualizing Democratic Governance in India: Some Perspectives (2013); and Bengali Fiction, Tura, Trisha and Debang-er Galpo (Stories of Tura, Trisha and Debang) (2023).