Nationalism

“India has never had a real sense of nationalism” penned by Asia's first Nobel laureate Rabindranath tagore’s nationalism foregrounds his view of nationalism “as a great menace. ” suffused in four essays and a poem the book tries to define ‘nation’ as a social construction levied to achieve a Mechanical purpose. The author a mystic Orient tries to unravel the dark reality of western nationalism and the repercussions of spiritually idealizing a nation. Delineating the complex maze of nationalism its position in the world and its relation to India Tagore emphasise that “there is only one history- The history of man. All National histories are merely chapters…”.