Sustainable Development: An Alternative Approach in Rabindranath Tagore’s Vision

This book on "Sustainable Development: An Alternative Approach in R.N. Tagore’s Vision" is an interdisciplinary research work. This book consists of two sections with sixteen chapters, including the first chapter on an introduction to "Sustainable Development" discourse in development studies and the last chapter on summary and concluding remarks. The second chapter in the section-i, deals with Tagore’s attitude, love and respect to nature, symbiosis of human beings-nature-society as well as his praxis of nurturing environment. From the third to ninth chapter of this section, the book focuses on Tagore’s vision on various dimensions of development viz. economic, political, socio-cultural, moral/spiritual, educational, personality, and synthesis of tradition and modernity. The tenth chapter of this section points out some charges/comments against Gurudev Tagore as posed by his critiques. The second section-ii of this book consists of five chapters and each of which is concerned with comparing Rabindra Nath Tagore’s thought with contemporary environmental perspectives or approaches viz. Gandhian environmentalism, Marxian ecology, deep ecology, eco-philosophy and eco-feminism. The last chapter of the section-ii summarizes Tagore’s vision on "All Round Development" as an alternative approach to sustainable development. Thus, as an interdisciplinary work, this book is very useful not only to general readers and social workers, but also to the students, researchers and academicians in various disciplines i.e. sociology, philosophy, social work, social anthropology, economics, political science, history, psychology, development studies, gender studies, Marxian studies, Gandhian studies, as well as experts and specialists working on various dimensions of development.