This book, having selections from Rabindranath Tagore’s essays, public addresses and letters, identifies the various stages in the evolution of Tagore’s religious thought beginning from the 1880s.
Focusing on the critique of contemporary Hinduism, conceptions of God and religion, and ethical activism, it examines the originality of Tagore’s religious and philosophic conceptions. It also situates his religious life and thought in his time and places him within the trends in contemporary Hindu religious and philosophical thought.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amiya P Sen
Amiya P. Sen teaches History at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi. He has been Visiting Fellow to St Anthony's College, Oxford, and Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He is the author of Hindu Revivalism in Bengal c. 1872-1905: Some Essays in Interpretation (OUP, 1993); Swami Vivekananda (2000); Three Essays on Sri Ramakrishna and His Times (2001); and as editor, Social and Religious Reform: The Hindus of British India (2003. He has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford; Indian Institute of advanced Study, shimla; and Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi.
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