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The Lady behind the veil, who opens her face to Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) in the final moment beyond death, flits through the corpus of his life work. More specifically, however, she appears in four forms of his work; poems, songs, think pieces in prose and paintings. Jivanadevata is mentioned by name only in a few poems, and in some prose pieces including The Religion of Man. Her identification is a matter of guess work in the rest of his work, especially ...
In this absorbing study of the prehistory of Indian nationalism, well-known historian Rajat Kanta Ray employs an approach that is novel in Indian historiography. Spanning a range of themes across many centuries, the author examines shared emotions and sentiments as bonds in the creation of a ‘felt community’ before the emergence of modern Indian nationalism. The author argues that the concept of nationhood, although defined by modernity, is nevertheless ...
"Do emotions have a history? Whose emotions does the writer, poet or diarist portray in an emotionally divided society? What are the theoretical problems confronting the historian of mentality? What ideological blinkers prevent the historian from being empathetic to the study of something as elusive as emotions and mentality? This book seeks to answer some of these questions. It examines emotional history, a relatively unexplored field of study in history. ...