Tagore and Nationalism

1. Introduction: Rabindranath Tagore and an ‘Ambivalent’ Nationalism
K. L. Tuteja, Kaustav Chakraborty

Part I. Nationalism, Ambivalence and Tagore

2. Rethinking Tagore on the Antinomies of Nationalism
Sabyasachi Bhattacharya

3. 1910 and the Evolution of Rabindranath Tagore’s Vernacular Nationalism
Krishna Sen

4. Language, Nationalism and Tagore
Tilottoma Misra

5. Tagore, Nationalism and Imperialism
Sukanta Chaudhuri

6. Tagore’s Nation: Swadeshi Samaj and the Political Novel
Makarand R. Paranjape

7. Santiniketan, the Making of a Community
R. Siva Kumar

8. The Pathography of Nationalism: Tagore’s Critique of the Idea of the Nation
K. Satchidanandan

9. Rabindranath Tagore at the Intersection of Nationalism and Modernity
Fakrul Alam

Part II. Nation and Textual Representations

10. History, Identity and Nation in Tagore’s Fiction
Supriya Chaudhuri

11. The Self, the Nation and the World Beyond It: Reading Tagore’s Travel Writings
Bhaskar Chakrabarty

12. ‘Pollution Complex’, Tagore and the Tabooed Nation: Revisiting the Select Short Stories
Kaustav Chakraborty

13. Tagore’s Ghare Baire (Home and the World) and Chaar Adhyaya (Four Chapters): Rethinking Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism and Gender
Biraj Mehta Rathi

Part III. National Discourse Under the Comparative Lens

14. Tagore’s Nationalism—And Premchand’s: A Complementary Comparison
Harish Trivedi

15. Language, Nation, Freedom: Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein on the Epistemology of Education
Rukmini Bhaya Nair

16. The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism
Bashabi Fraser

17. Rabindranath Tagore’s Use of Guru Gobind Singh as a Nationalist Icon
Chhanda Chatterjee

18. Nation and Civil Society as Spheres of ‘Enlightenment’: The Dialogue of Gandhi and Tagore, and an Ambedkarite Inflection
Sukumar Muralidharan

19. Ideas on Nationalism in Tagore and Unamuno: A Comparative Study
Swagata Kumar Basu

20. Tagore and Nationalism: A Perspective on Italy Imagining the Indian Unity
Stefano Beggiora

Part IV. Interrogating Nationalism in Art and Culture

21. From Rabindranath Tagore to Rituparno Ghosh: Domestic Space, Gender and the Nation in Chokher Bali

Pathik Roy

22. Nation and Partition: Tagore Reinvented by Ritwik Ghatak
Manas Ghosh

23. The Useless and the ‘Wonderful’: Work, Leisure and Being ‘at Home in Modernity’ in the Music of Rabindranath Tagore
Saurav Dasthakur

24. Dancing Against the Nation? Revisiting Tagore’s Politics of Performance
Aishika Chakraborty

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Asian Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature, History of South Asia