Nationalism - Brossura

Tagore, Rabindranath

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0143064673 ISBN 13: 9780143064671

Casa editrice: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 2017

Riassunto

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize. Nationalism is based on lectures delivered by him during the First World War. While the nations of Europe were doing battle, Tagore urged his audiences in Japan and the United States to eschew political aggressiveness and cultural arrogance. His mission, one might say, was to synthesize East and West, tradition and modernity. The lectures were not always well received at the time, but were chillingly prophetic. As Ramachandra Guha shows in his brilliant and erudite Introduction, it was by reading and speaking to Tagore that those founders of modern India, Gandhi and Nehru, developed a theory of nationalism that was inclusive rather than exclusive. Tagore's Nationalism should be mandatory reading in today's climate of xenophobia, sectarianism, violence and intolerance.

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L'autore

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A cultural icon of Bengal and India, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0143064673
• ISBN 13: 9780143064671
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 156
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