| Education as Freedom: Tagore's Paradigm Contributor(s): Maitra, Subhransu (Author) |
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ISBN: 9383098228 ISBN-13: 9789383098224 Publisher: Niyogi Books OUR PRICE: $17.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Asian - Indic |
| Dewey: 891.44 |
| LCCN: 2014355062 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.3" W x 9.2" (1.30 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tagore literature with all its cornucopian variety has always been a rich quarry for translators for well over a century, ever since Sister Nivedita and Jagadish Chandra Bose produced the earliest translations of Rabindranath s short stories. And his translators are legion. Yet so much remains to be translated. Education as Freedom -Tagore s Paradigm brings together in translation a number of Rabindranath s major essays, speeches and letters spread over five decades - a period when he came into his own not only as a world poet but also as a notable exponent of an alternative paradigm to colonial education in British India - an exponent who had his own syncretic vision and spoke with formidable original authority to intervene in the contemporary Euro-centric colonial discourse in education. Of course this unique Tagorean vision is epitomised in Visva-Bharati University and the Visva-Bharati saga is an integral part of the history of emergence of modern India. |