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.
| ISBN: | 9780143064671 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 2017 |
| Author: | Rabindranath Tagore |
| Publisher: | India Penguin Modern Classics an imprint of Penguin Random House India |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 164 pages |
| Genres: |
Globalization Politics and government Nationalism |
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.
Nationalism features in the following genres: Globalization, Politics and government, Nationalism
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Nationalism was written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by India Penguin Modern Classics an imprint of Penguin Random House India
Nationalism has 164 pages