A01=Rabindranath Tagore
Author_Rabindranath Tagore
Bengal
British Raj
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Category=FXP
classic Indian literature
colonial India
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historical fiction
imperialism
Indian independence movements
Indian nationalism
love triangle
political fiction
Swadeshi movement
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- ISBN 9781513137520
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2022
- Publisher: West Margin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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LARGE PRINT EDITION. Amidst the rise of the Indian independence movement, a family realizes opposing political and personal loyalties. When Nikhil brings his wife Bimala to a rally, he is unprepared for her to reach not just a political awakening, but a sense of self derived from the world outside the home. The Home and the World is a novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was an Indian poet, composer, philosopher, and painter from Bengal. Born to a prominent Brahmo Samaj family, Tagore was raised mostly by servants following his mother’s untimely death. His father, a leading philosopher and reformer, hosted countless artists and intellectuals at the family mansion in Calcutta, introducing his children to poets, philosophers, and musicians from a young age. Tagore avoided conventional education, instead reading voraciously and studying astronomy, science, Sanskrit, and classical Indian poetry. As a teenager, he began publishing poems and short stories in Bengali and Maithili. Following his father’s wish for him to become a barrister, Tagore read law for a brief period at University College London, where he soon turned to studying the works of Shakespeare and Thomas Browne. In 1883, Tagore returned to India to marry and manage his ancestral estates. During this time, Tagore published his Manasi (1890) poems and met the folk poet Gagan Harkara, with whom he would work to compose popular songs. In 1901, having written countless poems, plays, and short stories, Tagore founded an ashram, but his work as a spiritual leader was tragically disrupted by the deaths of his wife and two of their children, followed by his father’s death in 1905. In 1913, Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first lyricist and non-European to be awarded the distinction. Over the next several decades, Tagore wrote his influential novel The Home and the World (1916), toured dozens of countries, and advocated on behalf of Dalits and other oppressed peoples.
