Rabindranath Tagore The Myriad-Minded Man

by Dutta, Krishna; Robinson, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9781845118044
• ISBN10: 1845118049
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks

Summary

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)--poet, philosopher, painter, novelist, playwright, composer, traveller, political commentator and Asia's first Nobel Laureate--was one of his era's cultural icons. Proclaimed as the greatest poet India has ever produced, Tagore left an astonishing legacy undimmed nearly 70 years after his death. But he was also an enigmatic, complex and contradictory figure, torn between India's spiritual values and the spirit of the West. In this definitive biography, Krishna Dutta and Andrew Robinson explore the man behind the myth, presenting the power of his person, the power of his name and the power of his work. The result is an enlightening and exquisitely rendered portrayal--not of the legend but, to quote Tagore, of "the figure that once moved."

Author Biography

Krishna Dutta is an author and translator specializing in the cultural history of Bengal.  Her book, Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History, was published to critical acclaim and she is currently writing about the history of the first book of Indian cookery to be published in Britain.  Andrew Robinson is the author of more than fifteen books, including The Art of Rabindranath Tagore and two books published by I.B.Tauris: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye and Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (with Nemai Ghosh). He has written biographies of Albert Einstein, Michael Ventris and Thomas Young. He is the former literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement,  is now a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge and a fulltime writer.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Note on the spelling and pronunciation of Bengali	p. xv
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The Tagores and 'Prince' Dwarkanath	p. 17
Maharshi Debendranath	p. 27
The House of the Tagores	p. 34
Rabi	p. 43
A Journey to the Himalayas	p. 52
Adolescence	p. 57
England	p. 67
Renaissance in Bengal	p. 78
Marriage and Bereavement	p. 85
Peripatetic Litterateur	p. 92
Manashi, The Lady of the Mind	p. 101
The Shelidah Years	p. 108
Family Life	p. 124
Small Beginnings in Shantiniketan	p. 133
The Swadeshi Movement	p. 141
The Voice of Bengal	p. 151
England and the USA	p. 163
The Nobel Prize	p. 180
Never at Rest	p. 188
Japan and the USA	p. 200
Anti-Imperialist	p. 209
The Founding of a University	p. 219
Anti-Non-cooperator	p. 237
China and Japan	p. 246
Argentina	p. 253
Arguing with Gandhi	p. 260
Italy, Mussolini and After	p. 266
Nationalism versus Internationalism	p. 274
Farewell to the West	p. 287
Against the Raj	p. 302
The Great Sentinel	p. 308
Last Travels	p. 315
Shantiniketan in the Thirties	p. 323
The Self-destruction of Bengal	p. 335
War, Tagore and the West	p. 343
The Myriad-Minded Man	p. 354
Postscript	p. 371
Tagore Family Tree	p. 373
Tagore's Travels	p. 374
Notes	p. 377
Bibliography	p. 466
Index	p. 481
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