Nationalism (Pocket Classics) - Softcover

Fingerprint! Pocket Classics are perfect pocket-sized editions. Convenient to carry, priced right, and ideal for gifting and collecting, each classic with its vibrant cover and flap jacket offers an ultimate reading experience. A compendium of lectures delivered by Tagore during the First World War and the Swadeshi movement in India, Nationalism emphasizes Tagores political and philosophical views on human understanding and its weakness for power and material hoardings. The lectureswritten in a lucid, metaphoric, poetic proseare loaded with a piercing vision of the future and are a critique on his views on spirituality and humanity. The book holds much relevance in todays environment of violence and intolerance.

A Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature, music and Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore is known mostly for his poetry, though he wrote novels, essays, short stories, travelogues, dramas and thousands of songs. Tagore wrote autobiographies and his non-fiction grappled with history, linguistics and spirituality. Harvard University Press collaborated with Visva-Bharati University to publish the Essential Tagore, the largest anthology of Tagores works available in English, in 2011. it marks the 150th anniversary of Tagores birth.