Encyclopaedia on Tagore, Vol. I - III/Malti
Sharma. New Delhi, Anmol, 2008, 848 p., ISBN
81-261-3698-8.
Encyclopaedia on Tagore, Vol. I - III/Malti
Sharma. New Delhi, Anmol, 2008, 848 p., ISBN
81-261-3698-8.
Contents: Vol. I. Preface. 1. Rabindranath Tagore. 2. Tagore and his India. 3. The sources of Tagore's poetic imagination. 4. Rabindra Sangeet. 5. Song offerings. 6. Excerpt from the Home and the World--I. Bibliography. Index.
Vol. II. Preface. 1. Excerpt from the home and the world--II. 2. Excerpt from the land where I found it all. 3. Dialogue between Karna and Kunti. 4. Rabindranath Tagore's little poems. 5. Excerpt from Chitra. 6. Excerpt from the little big man. 7. Excerpt from fruit-gathering. Bibliography. Index.
Vol. III. Preface. 1. Excerpt from Kacha and Devayani. 2. Glimpses of Bengal selected from the letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore 1885 to 1895. 3. Excerpt from the realisation of life. 4. Tagore views on songs of Kabir. 5. Selected quotations of Rabindranath Tagore. Bibliography. Index.
"The creative genius of Rabindranath was almost universal in expression and temper. Literature, music, arts and thoughts, activities, education or the cooperatives, etc. all were touched and turned into gold. Yet the same genius was rooted in our very soil again. India of the ages spoke through him, he was the finest exponent of Vedic lore of composite culture of Hindus, of the universal message of the medieval saints like Kabir, Nanak, etc. right up to Rammohan Roy, of the modern times. Whatever is true in our tradition has its voice in Rabindranath. In Rabindranath a comprehensive view of life and reality emerged. How far this comprehensive view is unique and noble and how far adds new dimensions to our life will be discerned in the study. Study of Rabindranath and Upanishads is certainly a saviour of degenerated culture and civilization. This will bring again the integrated view of the reality." (jacket)