Nationalism & Home and the World (Students Edition)

Combining two classic texts by Rabindranath Tagore this special edition features a new Introduction by eminent scholar Sugata Bose.Nationalism is based on Tagore's lectures warning the world of the disasters of narrow sectarianism and xenophobia.Home and the World is a classic novel exploring the ever-relevant themes of nationalism violent revolution and women's emancipation. About the Author Rabindranath Tagore Renaissance man reshaped Bengal's literature and music and became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa and was a living institution for India especially for Bengal.Sugata Bose is the Gardiner professor of history at Harvard University. He was educated at Presidency College Calcutta and the University of Cambridge where he obtained his PhD and was later a fellow of St Catharine's College. Before taking up the Gardiner Chair at Harvard in 2001 he was professor of history and diplomacy at Tufts University. Bose was a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and gave the G.M. Trevelyan Lecture at the University of Cambridge. Bose who is Netaji's brother Sarat Chandra Bose's grandson is the author of many books including Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital and the much-acclaimed The Nation as Mother and Other Visions of Nationhood and A Hundred Horizons The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. He has also made documentary films on South Asian history and politics and published recordings of his translations of Tagore.