Empire, Nationalism And The Postcolonial World

Collins, Michael:
Empire, Nationalism And The Postcolonial World : Rabindranath Tagore's Writings On History, Politics And Society / Michael Collins ; foreword by Tapan Raychaudhuri. - London [u.a.] : Routledge, 2012 [veröffentlicht: 2011]. - xviii, 212 S. - (Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series ; 4)
ISBN 978-0-415-59395-3
£ 85,00
DDC: 891.448409

Beschreibung
By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography.
   Using detailed archival research, the book charts the origins of Tagore’s ideas in Indian religious traditions and discusses the impact of early Indian nationalism on Tagore’s thinking. It offers a new interpretation of Tagore’s complex debates with Gandhi about the colonial encounter, Tagore’s provocative analysis of the impact of British imperialism in India and his questioning of nationalism as a pathway to authentic postcolonial freedom. The book also demonstrates how the man and his ideas were received and interpreted in Britain during his lifetime and how they have been sometimes misrepresented by nationalist historians and postcolonial theorists after Tagore’s death.
   An alternative interpretation based on an intellectual history approach, this book places Tagore’s sense of agency, his ideas and intentions within a broader historical framework. Offering an exciting critique of postcolonial theory from a historical perspective, it is a timely contribution in the wake of the 150th anniversary of Tagore's birth in 2011. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Illustrations. viii
Preface. ix
Acknowledgements. xii
Foreword by Tapan Raychaudhuri. xiv
Introduction: Tagore, Imperialism and a Global Intellectual History. 1
PART 1: IDEAS AND INTENTIONS. 23
   1. Religion and Reform: Tagore’s Nineteenth Century Inheritance. 25
   2. England and the Nobel Prize: Tagore At Home in the World. 48
   3. On Nations and Empires: Tagore’s Debates with M. K. Gandhi. 70
PART 2: COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL ENCOUNTERS. 99
   4. Cross-Purposes: Tagore, W. B. Yeats and ‘Irish Orientalism’. 101
   5. Acts of Atonement: Tagore, C. F. Andrews and E. J. Thompson. 122
   6. Rabindranath Redux: Tagore’s Legacy in the Postcolonial World. 144
Notes. 161
Bibliography. 198
Index. 210

Autor
Michael Collins is Lecturer in the Department of History at University College London (UCL), UK. He specialises in Modern British and World History and the intellectual history of empire and decolonisation. Profile page.

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