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: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781138187054
• ISBN-10: 1138187054
• Artikelnr.: 43604037

Autorenporträt

Michael Collins is Lecturer in the Department of History at University College London (UCL), UK. He specialises in Modern British and World History and the intellectual history of empire and decolonisation. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/about_us/academic_staff/dr_michael

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