Table of Contents

Introduction
I: TAGORE AND THE LANGUAGE OF RELATIONSHIP
Tagore Redrawing the Boundaries: In Other Words, Crossing the Limits of Language - Udaya Narayana Singh
II: EUROPE AND TAGORE
Rabindranath Tagore and Germany: An Overview - Martin Kämpchen
Tagore′s Reception and Tagore Translations in Hungary - Imre Bangha
′In Silece We Recline′: Tagore and Anna De Noailles - Chinmoy Guha
III: DISCOVERING THE UNKNOWN
Rabindranath Tagore and the Uncanny - Tutun Mukherjee
Re-reading Rabindranath′s Iran Travelogues - Ramkrishna Bhattacharya
Tagore, Travel and Tirtha - Amrit Sen
IV: NATION, ′NO-NATION′ AND BEYOND NATIONALISM
Tagore′s Critique of Nationalism - Subhoranjan Dasgupta
The Other and the Self: Tagore′s Concept of Universalism - Indranath Choudhuri
′Bhinnat?′ of ′Nations′: Tagore′s Search in Nationalism, ′Bh?ratavar??ya Sam?j′, and Beyond - Amartya Mukhopadhyay
Rabindranath and the Bengal Partition of 1905: Community, Class and Gender - Sudeshna Chakravarti
V: TEXT, CONTEXT, SUB-TEXT
Bengali at Home, English in the World: Bi-lingual Tagore - Sanjukta Dasgupta
Home and the Civilian Space in Tagore′s Book of Consecration - Probal Dasgupta
Tagore and the ′Feminine′: Impossible Loves and Possible Ideals - Malashri Lal
Studying Rabindranath Thakur within the Czech-Bengali Studies - Blanka Knotková-?apková
Tagore and Shillong: Between the Lines - Moon Moon Mazumdar
VI: PERFORMING TAGORE
Universalism and Ethnicity in Tagore′s Songs and Dance - Amita Dutt Mookerjee
The Influence of Tagore on Indian Film Music - Shoma A Chatterji
Connecting Cultures: Translating Tagore′s Songs - Reba Som
VII: TAGORE AND THE WORLD
Rabindranath′s Experiments with Education, Community, and Nation at his Santiniketan Institutions - Uma Dasgupta
Tagore′s Universalist Sparks: A Creative Approach - Ana Jelnikar
Tagore, Environment and Ecology: A Place/Space Dynamics - Debarati Bandyopadhyay
Index

About the Author

Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former Head, Department of English and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta, is a critic, translator, and a poet. She has published in journals in India and abroad. Her awards and grants include the British Council Charles Wallace Scholar grant, Fulbright Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Associate Fellow at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, etc. She participated in the fifi rst Writers’ and Literary Translators’ International Congress (WALTIC) at Stockholm and also served as Chairperson for the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Eurasia region), organized by the Commonwealth Foundation, UK. Professor Dasgupta is the Managing Editor of FAMILIES: A Journal of Representations and Assistant Editor of Journal of Women’s Studies, Calcutta University.

Her books include:
·         The Novels of Huxley and Hemingway: A Study in Two Planes of Reality (1996); and
·         The Indian Family in Transition (co-edited, 2007).

Chinmoy Guha is Professor of English and former Head, Department of English, University of Calcutta. He has also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, and the Director of Publications, Embassy of France in India, New Delhi.

A leading essayist in Bengali and a distinguished translator of French literature, he has been the editor of the book reviews of the Bengali literary magazines Desh and Boier Desh. He has published nearly 20 books, including Where the Dreams Cross: T. S. Eliot and French Poetry, The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence 1922–1938, a new biography of Victor Hugo, and has translated La  Rochefoucauld’s Maxims, Flaubert’s The Dictionary of Received Ideas, Romain Rolland’s Danton, and André Gide’s Strait is the Gate (Sahitya Akademi).

His Latest books are two new collections of essays in Bengali Chilekothhar Unmadini and Garho Shankher Khonje, a book of interviews with Mrinal Sen, Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak, Tapan Raychaudhuri, Badal Sircar, Buddhadev Dasgupta and others, The Tower and the Sea: Romain Rolland-Kalidas Nag Correspondence 1922–1938 (2010), a monograph on Romain Rolland jointly written with a Swiss scholar and two new anthologies of 20th century French Poetry.

Apart from the Knighthood of Academic Palms from France, he has won the Lila Roy award for Translation of the West Bengal Government (2008), the Henri Louis Derozeo bicentenary award (2010) and the Swatantra Samman (2012).