Rabindranath Tagore’s reflections on the concepts and practice of the civilisation, nationalism and community are directly concerned with the nature of modern political power and its underlying assumptions about human life. He says that there is a need to prove our humanity by solving the internal differences through mutual help and finding some true basis for reconciliation. He highlighted the part how we Indian’s get intimidated by the idea of westernisation and stated that forgetting our roots had become the major reason why we get confused with the true essence of national self-consciousness. It was really important for our divided society. He fiercely expressed that we should follow our Upanishads and our saints who taught us the idea of fraternity, brotherhood and equality, which can make any country strong. India has acknowledged the real differences between races but, yet, seek for some basis of unity through our saints like Nanak, Kabir, etc. called the problem of race as we can find commonly in America. It was a condition that he says prevails not only in India but among all the nations, i.e. He considered the specific challenges faced by India in developing a national sub-consciousness to be grounded in Indian cultural sensibilities.Īccording to him, the real problem in India was not political but social. When the chapter of nationalism in India starts, Tagore beautifully described the true essence of nationalism and why India gets confused with its true concept. “I am not against one nation in particular, but against the general idea of all nations.” It is divided into chapters on nationalism in the West, Japan and India, and fittingly is ended by a poem originally written in Bengali. It contains Tagore’s ruminations on nationalism from his extensive travels. Nationalism is more of an essay than academic work. It is maintaining morality amidst the inevitable mechanical aspects of progress. Let our civilisation take its firm stand upon its basis of social co-operation and not upon that of economic exploitation and conflict”.Īnd really, this is what nationalism is all about. Let our life be simple in its outer aspect and rich in its inner gain. “And yet I will persist in believing that there is such a thing as the harmony of completeness in humanity, where poverty does not take away his riches, where defeat may lead him to victory, death to immortality, and where in the compensation of Eternal Justice those who are the last may yet have their insult transmuted into a golden triumph. You have to concede it to Tagore heartily he is still no less poetic writing this essay on nationalism than if he were writing a poem. It can easily be suspected in his book Nationalism. His works are noted for their rhythmic and lyrical nature.
He was famous for his poems, short stories, travelogues, dramas and thousands of songs one of them is our national songs.
But he believed that teaching doesn’t explain things but stakes curiosity. The Tagore family was at the forefront of the Bengali renaissance. A Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature, music and Indian art with contextual modernism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Sri Rabindranath Tagore has been my favourite author for quite some time.
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