Michael Collins

Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World

Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society

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Produktbeschreibung

By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's English language writings, this book places the work of India's greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780415593953
• ISBN-10: 0415593956
• Artikelnr.: 33380363

Autorenporträt

Michael Collins is Associate Professor of Modern British History, University College London (UCL), UK. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-michael-collins

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Tapan Raychaudhuri Introduction: Tagore, Imperialism and a Global
Intellectual History Part 1: Ideas and Intentions 1. Religion and Reform:
Tagore's Nineteenth Century Inheritance 2. England and the Nobel Prize:
Tagore At Home in the World 3. On Nations and Empires: Tagore's Debates
with M. K. Gandhi Part 2: Colonial and Postcolonial Encounters 4.
Cross-Purposes: Tagore, W. B. Yeats and 'Irish Orientalism' 5. Acts of
Atonement: Tagore, C. F. Andrews and E. J. Thompson 6. Rabindranath Redux:
Tagore's Legacy in the Postcolonial World