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Nationalism, implicated as it is in the modern imagination, is a deeply contested idea. So is nat... more Nationalism, implicated as it is in the modern imagination, is a deeply contested idea. So is nation – also referred to as an “imagined community” – which evolved as a sociopolitical institution, fairly recently, and which is characterised by either a unifying cultural signifier or an overarching ideology. Empirical studies reveal that the idea of nationalism often originates with the elite or with an aspiring middle-class, the rest of the society are appropriated into it. Tagore dismissed such nationalism as “the organised self-interest of a people,” which is “least human and least spiritual.” He saw it as a constant threat to humanity. This paper argues that Tagore’s diatribe against nationalism is a recurrent motif in all his writings and lectures. For him the nation is distinctively and exclusively Western. He developed an alternative conception of modernity which would take into account inclusive and synergic interaction between cultures that can take the world towards harmony ...
South Asian Diaspora, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Indian writers: transnationalisms and diaspora... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Indian writers: transnationalisms and diasporas/ edited by Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty. p. cm.(Postcolonial studies; v. 5) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Indie literature (English)Foreign countriesHistory and ...
asiatic.iium.edu.my
... fellowship. Keywords Colonialism, Gandhi, Tagore, nationalism, swadeshi, universalism There... more ... fellowship. Keywords Colonialism, Gandhi, Tagore, nationalism, swadeshi, universalism There is only one history the history of man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism ...
World Literature Today, 2001
Management, mondialisation, écologie : regards critiques en sciences de gestion (Traité Technolog... more Management, mondialisation, écologie : regards critiques en sciences de gestion (Traité Technologies et Développement Durable, IC2) Dans un monde ébranlé par des crises d'ampleur majeure touchant les sphères financières, économiques, sociales et environnementales, les ...
Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, 2012
Postcolonial Text, Mar 22, 2013
Literature For Our Times, Aug 17, 2007
Humanities Diliman, Oct 17, 2012
Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2000
World Literature Today, 2001
South Asian Diaspora, 2011
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2006
Page 1. CD Narasimhaiah (19212005) Satish C. Aikant HNB Garhwal University, Pauri, India Spellin... more Page 1. CD Narasimhaiah (19212005) Satish C. Aikant HNB Garhwal University, Pauri, India Spelling ... times. It was perhaps for the same reason that the nineteenth-century social reformer Raja Rammohun CD Narasimhaiah ...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2007
Nationalism, implicated as it is in the modern imagination, is a deeply contested idea. So is nat... more Nationalism, implicated as it is in the modern imagination, is a deeply contested idea. So is nation – also referred to as an “imagined community” – which evolved as a sociopolitical institution, fairly recently, and which is characterised by either a unifying cultural signifier or an overarching ideology. Empirical studies reveal that the idea of nationalism often originates with the elite or with an aspiring middle-class, the rest of the society are appropriated into it. Tagore dismissed such nationalism as “the organised self-interest of a people,” which is “least human and least spiritual.” He saw it as a constant threat to humanity. This paper argues that Tagore’s diatribe against nationalism is a recurrent motif in all his writings and lectures. For him the nation is distinctively and exclusively Western. He developed an alternative conception of modernity which would take into account inclusive and synergic interaction between cultures that can take the world towards harmony ...
South Asian Diaspora, 2012
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Indian writers: transnationalisms and diaspora... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Indian writers: transnationalisms and diasporas/ edited by Jaspal K. Singh, Rajendra Chetty. p. cm.(Postcolonial studies; v. 5) Includes bibliographical references. 1. Indie literature (English)Foreign countriesHistory and ...
asiatic.iium.edu.my
... fellowship. Keywords Colonialism, Gandhi, Tagore, nationalism, swadeshi, universalism There... more ... fellowship. Keywords Colonialism, Gandhi, Tagore, nationalism, swadeshi, universalism There is only one history the history of man. All national histories are merely chapters in the larger one. Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism ...
World Literature Today, 2001
Management, mondialisation, écologie : regards critiques en sciences de gestion (Traité Technolog... more Management, mondialisation, écologie : regards critiques en sciences de gestion (Traité Technologies et Développement Durable, IC2) Dans un monde ébranlé par des crises d'ampleur majeure touchant les sphères financières, économiques, sociales et environnementales, les ...
Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities, 2012
Postcolonial Text, Mar 22, 2013
Literature For Our Times, Aug 17, 2007
Humanities Diliman, Oct 17, 2012
Ariel a Review of International English Literature, Apr 1, 2000
World Literature Today, 2001
South Asian Diaspora, 2011
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2006
Page 1. CD Narasimhaiah (19212005) Satish C. Aikant HNB Garhwal University, Pauri, India Spellin... more Page 1. CD Narasimhaiah (19212005) Satish C. Aikant HNB Garhwal University, Pauri, India Spelling ... times. It was perhaps for the same reason that the nineteenth-century social reformer Raja Rammohun CD Narasimhaiah ...
The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2007