The Three Tagores-Dwarkanath, Debendranath and Rabindranath

India in Transition
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-52539-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

This book maps the intellectual and cultural transformation that India witnessed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the three Tagores – Dwarkanath Tagore (1794–1846), Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). It examines how these three generations of Tagores drew on the intellectual strands of the time to chart a different course for India’s socio-cultural and politico-ideological development in the wake of colonial rule. The author looks at the various progressive measures introduced by the Tagores that sought to combat the prevalent socio-cultural practices which were aimed at segregating people on the basis of caste, religion and ethnicity.

An important addition to the study of India’s social metamorphosis, the book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, political science, colonialism, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and acknowledgements viii Introduction xv PART A Dwarkanath Tagore 1 1 Shaping Bengal’s socio-ideological universe 7 2 A successful entrepreneur in adverse circumstances 30 PART B Debendranath Tagore 63 3 Continuity with Dwarkanath Tagore’s socio-ideological ideas 69 4 Breaking with the past by reinforcing the indigenous intellectual traditions 94 PART C Rabindranath Tagore 127 5 Espousal of both derivative and contextual socio-economic and politico-ideological thoughts 133 6 Articulation of an innovative ‘nationalist’ design 165 Concluding observations 195 Select bibliography 199 Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

Bidyut Chakrabarty was former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati in 2018, he served the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, for more than three decades. He has published in many areas of Political Science.