Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition Book

	Acknowledgments	7
	Introduction: Tagore and the Ambivalence of Commitment	9
	"Nationalism Is a Great Menace": Tagore and Nationalism	29
	The Letters between Tagore the Noguchi, 1938	41
	Contesting the Boundaries between Home and the World: Tagore and the Construction of Citizenship	49
	Siksar Herfer: Education out of Whack	65
	Poetic Intuition and Cosmic Reality: Tagore as Preceptor of Scientific Rationalism	83
	Consciousness and Reality: The Paradox of Objective Knowledge	95
	"We Think That We Think Clearly, But That's Only Because We Don't Think Clearly": Brian Josephson on Mathematics, Mind, and the Human World	107
	"Durga - for whom I would redden the earth with sacrificial offerings": Mythology, Nationalism, and Patriarchal Ambivalence in The Home and the World	119
	Rabindranath Tagore's and Satyajit Ray's "New Woman": Writing and Rewriting Bimala	129
	The Psychology and Aesthetics of Love: Sringara, Bhavana, and Rasadhvani in Gora	141
	Gora, Jane Austen, and the Slaves of Indigo	175
	"Some Imaginary 'Real' Thing": Racial Purity, the Mutiny, and the Nation in Tagore's Gora and Kipling's Kim	199
	Writing Across Empire: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore	213
	"On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet": Childhood Loss and Mourning Reaction in Tagore's Poetry	233
	Tagore in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Korczak's Post Office	250
	Violence and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century: Rabindranath Tagore and the Problem of Testimony	264
	Contributors	282
	Index	286