Tagore and Gandhi corresponded with each other in the form of letters, newspaper articles and rejoinders that span a period of 26 years starting from 1915 till the end of Tagore’s life in 1941. This was historically significant in the backdrop of the tumultuous emergence of a nation called India. Read more
This is a year of important anniversaries in British history. It marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the 600th anniversary of the battle of Agincourt and the bicentennial of the battle of Waterloo. But it also marks an encounter of very special significance to the history of India in the 20th century. Read more
I have been nominated as a researcher in the UGC-UKIERI Project titled, “Scottish Orientalism and the Indian Renaissance, the Continuum of Ideas: Tagore and his Circle”, being jointly coordinated by Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland and Visva-Bharati Shantiniketan, India. While pursuing my Ph.D. at Visva-Bharati, I have been fortunate enough to pay an academic visit to Edinburgh, Scotland from 9 to 18 March, 2015. Read more
Rabindranath Tagore had once stated that human mind ‘has faculties which are universal’ (‘East and West’ 530) as he believed Esha devo visvakarmā mahātmā sadā janānam hridaya sannivishatah (‘This is the divine being, the world-worker, who is the Great Soul ever dwelling inherent in the hearts of all people’) (The Religion 55). Read more
This paper is not a resolved narrative, but rather a fulmination on the discourse between Scotland and the Bengali Renaissance, and the profoundly dynamic socio-cultural site of colonial interaction in Bengal in the early nineteenth century, with particular reference to Scottish missionaries and the Hindu elite. Read more