The Three Tagores, Dwarkanath, Debendranath and Rabindranath: India in Transition - Hardcover

Chakrabarty, Bidyut

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9354793835 ISBN 13: 9789354793837

Publisher: SAGE, 2022

Synopsis

The three Tagores represent three different eras of British colonialism in India; beginning with Dwarkanath, born in 1794, and ending with his grandson Rabindranath, who died in 1941. The Three Tagores, Dwarkanath, Debendranath and Rabindranath: India in Transition analyses the history of the modern British period of undivided Bengal in setting of the three Tagores. Rather than providing a biographical study of the three most pivotal figures of the Tagore family, this work sees their lives as a prism through which to understand the complex unfolding of India’s socio-economic and cultural milieu during the onset, high-noon and decline of colonial rule in India. Limning the experiences and activities of the three Tagores with reference to the contexts in which they lived, this work offers the missing link in our understanding of renaissance in India.

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About the Author

Bidyut Chakrabarty is Vice-Chancellor of Visva-Bharati, West Bengal. He was a professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, until November 2018. He completed his PhD from London School of Economics and has been associated with teaching and research for more than three decades. He has taught in several prestigious educational institutions, such as the London School of Economics; Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Monash University, Australia; National University of Singapore; and Hamburg University, Germany. He has authored several textbooks and academic books. Among his publications are Public Administration: From Government to Governance (2017), Winning the Mandate: The Indian Experience (2016, SAGE Publications), Communism in India: Events, Processes and Ideologies (2014), Indian Politics and Society since Independence: Events, Processes and Ideology (2008) and The Governance Discourse: A Reader (2008).

 

From the Back Cover

This book studies three generations of Tagores to understand the socio-economic and cultural changes in India in the wake of the colonial rule.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9354793835
• ISBN 13: 9789354793837
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 348