'This volume is an outcome of the 150th Birth Anniversary celebrations of Tagore. It emerged from discussions at the conference, Contemporarising Tagore & the World, held in Dhaka in Spring of 2011, where scholars from ten different countries presented thirty-two papers. At the centre of this volume is the question of how global and contemporary Rabindranath’s work truly is. This is explored through eight different themes, including: Tagore’s Humanism, Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism, Engendering Tagore, Education and Society, Sociology of Creativity, Alternative Development Strategies and Crisis in Modern Civilisation.' - excerpted from flapped page.

Including an index.

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Onsite

Location code
MON.TAR
Language

English

Keyword
Publication/Creation date

2013

No of pages

501

ISBN / ISSN

9789845061209

No of copies

1

Content type

anthology, 

artist monograph

Chapter headings

Section I: Prolegomenon

Chapter 1: Contemporarising Rabindranath and the International

Chapter 2: Tagore, Human God and the World

Section II: Locating Tagore's Humanism

Chapter 3: Emancipating the Individual L Tagore's Use of Buddhism as a Modern Libration Theology

Chapter 4: Tagore's Humanism: A Philosophical Quest

Section III: Nationalism, Internationalism and Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 5: Grand Visit to China: Historical Significance

Chapter 6: 'In a Land Where I have no Readers': Rabindranath and the Voyage to Iran

Chapter 7: Tagore's Reception in Russia: Yesterday and Today

Chapter 8: Celebrating the Global and the Local: Rabindranath's Ideal of Cosmopolitanism

Chapter 9: Bangladesh: State, Nation and Tagore

Section IV: Engendering Tagore

Chapter 10: The Feminine in the Tagorean Oeuvre

Chapter 11: Nahi Debi, Nahi Samanya Nari: Reflections on Female Protagonists in Tagore's Short Stories

Chapter 12: Gurudev and Vijaya: Rabindranath Tagore and Victoria Ocampo

Section V: Education and Society

Chapter 13: Revisiting Rabinranath's Santiniketan School: Demystifying Popular Perception

Chapter 14: Child Education in Tagore's Thought and Activities

Chapter 15: Rabindranath's 'Visvasahitya' and Comparative Literary Studies

Chapter 16: Education Ideas of Rabindranath Tagore in the Era of Globalisation

Chapter 17: Philosophy of Education: Tagore's Pedagogy

Chapter 18: Contemporary Significance of Tagore's Idea of Education

Section VI: Sociology of Creativity

Chapter 19: Gitanjali: An Enigma of Fame and Neglect

Chapter 20: Translating Tagore: Shifting Paradigms

Chapter 21: Why Did Rabindranath Translate His Works into English?

Chapter 22: The Power of the Aesthetic

Chapter 23: Contemporarising Tagore: Tapan Sinha's Kabuliwallah

Chapter 24: Tagore's Influence on the Art and Culture of Sri Lanka

Section VII: Alternative Development Strategies

Chapter 25: Tagore's Thoughts on Rural Credit and Development

Chapter 26: Tagore's Thoughts on Village Development and Rural Reconstruction

Chapter 27: Rule by the Ruled: Tagore's Contribution in the Participatory Development Process for Poverty Alleviation

Chapter 28: The Once and Future Village: From Tagore's Rural Reconstruction to Transition Towns

Section VIII: Crisis in Modern Civilisation

Chapter 29: Deciphering the Contemporary in the Historical: Tagore on the Discourse of Civilisation

Chapter 30: In search of Fairness of Justice: Contemporarising Tagore and The home and the World

Chapter 31: Concept of 'Crisis': Tagorean Anxiety

Chapter 32: Tagore after his Sesquicentennial

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