Nationalism
Material type: TextPublication details: Westport, Conn Greenwood Press [1973]Description: 159 pISBN: 9780143064671Subject(s): NationalismDDC classification: 320.54 Summary: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize. Nationalism is based on lectures delivered by him during the First World War. While the nations of Europe were doing battle, Tagore urged his audiences in Japan and the United States to eschew political aggressiveness and cultural arrogance. His mission, one might say, was to synthesize East and West, tradition and modernity. The lectures were not always well received at the time, but were chillingly prophetic. As Ramachandra Guha shows in his brilliant and erudite Introduction, it was by reading and speaking to Tagore that those founders of modern India, Gandhi and Nehru, developed a theory of nationalism that was inclusive rather than exclusive. Tagore's Nationalism should be mandatory reading in today's climate of xenophobia, sectarianism, violence and intolerance.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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320.54 KAU/N NATIONS AND NATIONALISMS : a short introduction | 320.54 MOC/S Symbols of defeat in the construction of national identity | 320.54 MOR Morality of nationalism | 320.54 RAB/N Nationalism | 320.54 SMI/ N Nationalism | 320.54 SMI/M Myths and memories of the nations | 320.54 STA/M A Macat analysis Ernest Gellner's Nations and Nationalism |
Reprint of the 1917 ed.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize. Nationalism is based on lectures delivered by him during the First World War. While the nations of Europe were doing battle, Tagore urged his audiences in Japan and the United States to eschew political aggressiveness and cultural arrogance. His mission, one might say, was to synthesize East and West, tradition and modernity. The lectures were not always well received at the time, but were chillingly prophetic. As Ramachandra Guha shows in his brilliant and erudite Introduction, it was by reading and speaking to Tagore that those founders of modern India, Gandhi and Nehru, developed a theory of nationalism that was inclusive rather than exclusive. Tagore's Nationalism should be mandatory reading in today's climate of xenophobia, sectarianism, violence and intolerance.
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