Research Archives - The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies https://scotstagore.org/category/research/ Researching and celebrating Rabindranath Tagore's life Sat, 22 Jan 2022 22:12:23 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/scotstagore.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/cropped-Scots.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Research Archives - The Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies https://scotstagore.org/category/research/ 32 32 157487829 Visual Art and Cultural Revival: Sister Nivedita, Patrick Geddes, and the Tagores by Murdo Macdonald https://scotstagore.org/visual-art-and-cultural-revival-sister-nivedita-patrick-geddes-and-the-tagores-by-murdo-macdonald/ Sat, 22 Jan 2022 20:05:33 +0000 https://scotstagore.org/?p=1034 Taking visual art as his guiding theme Murdo Macdonald explores the network of interdisciplinary thinkers that included Sister Nivedita, Patrick Geddes and Rabindranath Tagore. Attention is also given to the contribution of Rabindranath’s nephew Abanindranath, the leader of the Bengal school of painting. The analogies between Geddes’s advocacy of cultural revival in Scotland and Tagore’s […] Read more

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]]> 1034 In Conversation: On The Tagore Sensibility with Prof Bashabi Fraser and Dr Blanka Knotkova https://scotstagore.org/in-conversation-on-the-tagore-sensibility-with-prof-bashabi-fraser-and-dr-blanka-knotkova/ Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:49:55 +0000 https://scotstagore.org/?p=859 At an international collaborative conference organised by Manipal University and Edinburgh Napier University at Manipal in February 2020 on Society and Freedom(s): the Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore’s Ideas Today’, Prof Bashabi Fraser, Co-Convenor with Dr Padma Rani (Director, School of Communication at Manipal University) of the conference, interviews Dr Blanka Knotkova, a […] Read more

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]]> 859 The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth by Prof Bindu Puri https://scotstagore.org/the-tagore-gandhi-debate-on-matters-of-truth-and-untruth-by-prof-bindu-puri/ https://scotstagore.org/the-tagore-gandhi-debate-on-matters-of-truth-and-untruth-by-prof-bindu-puri/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:26:29 +0000 https://scotstagore.org/?p=753 My recent book on the Gandhi-Tagore debate, The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth, argues that the debate between Gandhi and Tagore appeared to have been about many issues: Satyagraha, the non-cooperation movement, the boycott of educational institutions, swadeshi, Gandhi’s mantra that “swaraj can be attained by the charkha” (Tagore in Bhattacharya (ed), 2008:109) […] Read more

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]]> https://scotstagore.org/the-tagore-gandhi-debate-on-matters-of-truth-and-untruth-by-prof-bindu-puri/feed/ 0 753 Tagore and Gandhi on Women by Prof Malashri Lal https://scotstagore.org/tagore-and-gandhi-on-women-by-prof-malashri-lal/ https://scotstagore.org/tagore-and-gandhi-on-women-by-prof-malashri-lal/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:23:06 +0000 https://scotstagore.org/?p=750 Lord Bruce concludes his discussion piece, agreeing with Jawaharlal Nehru, that Tagore and Gandhi “represented two aspects of the truth, neither of which can be ignored”. Prof Amiya Sen, in a different framework of “religious thought” is of the opinion that Gandhi and Tagore “treated religion to be an integral and eternal part of Indian […] Read more

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]]> https://scotstagore.org/tagore-and-gandhi-on-women-by-prof-malashri-lal/feed/ 0 750 Tagore and Gandhi as Religious Thinkers: Some Points of Comparison by Prof Amiya P. Sen https://scotstagore.org/tagore-and-gandhi-as-religious-thinkers-some-points-of-comparison-by-prof-amiya-p-sen/ https://scotstagore.org/tagore-and-gandhi-as-religious-thinkers-some-points-of-comparison-by-prof-amiya-p-sen/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 19:18:50 +0000 https://scotstagore.org/?p=746 It has been commonplace to compare Tagore and Gandhi in the context of their contribution to the discourse on Indian nationalism. By now, we have ample scholarly work that brings out the interesting ways in which the two iconic figures of modern India differed over the substance and strategies embedded in this discourse, even as […] Read more

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