Reviews for Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography

The average rating for Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-05-30 00:00:00 Mohamad Imran This is a fabulous collection of essays looking at the ways in which different versions of the story of Rama and Sita question hegemonic discourses about gender, caste, imperialism, and racism. The Ramayana is one of the most retold epic myths in Indian (and Southeast Asian...but this book deals only with Indian and Indian diasporic Ramayanas), and with its emphasis on Rama as the ideal king and Sita as the ideal wife continues to have intense cultural and political salience. However, this book shows that attempts to co-opt the Ramayana story by right-wing Hindu nationalists flies in the face of a tradition much more diverse that the nationalists would have us believe.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-25 00:00:00 James Mcnil Another nice set of essays investigating the interpretation of the Ramayana.