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Rabindranath Tagore and his Discourses on Politics, Nationalism and Decolonization

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This book recovers Rabindranath Tagore’s overlooked role in early anti-imperialist thought. Through annotated translations of twelve political essays (1890–1910), it makes his Bengali writings acce...
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This book examines the largely unrecognized contributions of Rabindranath Tagore to early anti-imperialist thought within postcolonial studies. Despite producing a substantial body of politically engaged public speeches from the early 1890s onward, Tagore has remained absent from dominant academic discourses, primarily due to the inaccessibility of his writings, originally composed and delivered in Bengali. No systematic effort has been made to translate these works into English with the aim of deciphering their decolonial insights. This volume seeks to address this gap by presenting annotated translations of twelve explicitly political essays, composed or delivered as public lectures between 1890 and 1910—a period of Tagore’s intense nationalist activity in India. These texts, either overtly political or infused with strong political undertones, offer critical perspectives on colonialism and nationalism, making them essential to contemporary discussions in postcolonial and decolonial studies.
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Price: $34.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Studies in Commonwealth Writings
Publication Date: 01 October 2026
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838221366
Format: Paperback
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General

Manojit Mandal (Author)
Dr. Manojit Mandal is Professor of English and the Chair of the Department at Jadavpur University. He began his academic career as a Lecturer in English at Assam University, Silchar, in 2000, before joining Rabindra Bharati University, where he served until March 2005. Since then, he has been associated with the Department of English at Jadavpur University, where he was appointed Professor in October 2018. Dr. Mandal earned his PhD from the Faculty of Arts, Jadavpur University, with a dissertation titled Reinterpreting Tagore: Society, Culture and Decolonization. His research spans Shakespeare studies, postcolonial theory, Shakespeare in Bengal, Rabindranath Tagore, and disability studies. He has published extensively in national and international books and journals. His recent monograph, Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism: The Bard & the Raj, was published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis) in 2024. He has also co-authored Education & Awareness among Persons with Disability in the Sunderban Areas: A Survey of Four Selected Blocks (Jadavpur University Press, 2017) with Dr. Sujitkumar Mondal and edited Higher Education, Universities and Excellence: The Bengal Narrative (Jadavpur University, 2017). Actively involved with the Centre for Studies in Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing (formerly the Centre for Disability Studies) at Jadavpur University since 2012, Dr. Mandal has been its Joint Coordinator since 2015. He has supervised UGC-UPE and university-funded projects on disability studies and is currently engaged in two UGC-RUSA 2.0 translation projects: (i) Rabijiboni (“Life of Rabindranath”) in English: Translation, Transnationalism, and the Global South and (ii) Tagore in English: Essays of Decolonization.


Sankha Ghosh (Author)
Sankha Ghosh is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, The Heritage College, Kolkata, and a visiting faculty in the Department of English at Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur. He is currently pursuing a PhD in the Department of English, Jadavpur University. He has completed an MA in English from Jadavpur University and an MPhil in English from Visva Bharati, Bolpur, West Bengal in 2016 and 2019 respectively.  He has contributed to anthologies and peer reviewed journals such as Partition Literature and Cinema: An Introduction (Routledge, 2020), the Journal of the Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Janajati Darpan, and Alochana Chakra among others. His areas of interest are Modernity and Modernism, Translation Studies and Nineteenth Century Bengal.


Ishani Dutta (Author)
Ishani Dutta is a Learning Designer at LearningMate Solutions Pvt Ltd. She submitted her PhD dissertation on contemporary Nepali performance poetry at the Centre for Comparative Literature, Bhasha Bhavana, Visva-Bharati, Bolpur, West Bengal, in 2024 and is currently awaiting her thesis defense. She has previously worked on various projects at the Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures and the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. A recipient of the Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellowship (2019), supported by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, her research interests include literature and other arts, as well as translation studies.