Frost, Mark R (2012) ‘Beyond the limits of nation and geography’: Rabindranath Tagore and the cosmopolitan moment, 1916–1920. Cultural Dynamics, 24 (2-3). pp. 143-158. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013482370
Frost, Mark R (2012) ‘Beyond the limits of nation and geography’: Rabindranath Tagore and the cosmopolitan moment, 1916–1920. Cultural Dynamics, 24 (2-3). pp. 143-158. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013482370
Frost, Mark R (2012) ‘Beyond the limits of nation and geography’: Rabindranath Tagore and the cosmopolitan moment, 1916–1920. Cultural Dynamics, 24 (2-3). pp. 143-158. DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374013482370
Abstract
<jats:p> This article examines the emergence of a distinctive brand of political cosmopolitanism across Britain’s Asian Empire during World War I. Rather than presenting this phenomenon merely as a response to Western developments (in particular, Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points), it argues for the Asian origins and political logic of such discourse. The activities of the poet Rabindranath Tagore in these crucial years, his voyage from Bengal to Japan and his scheme for an international university, are used as a lens through which to view the wider currency of cosmopolitan thinking and practice in the region. For, it is argued, while Tagore never committed himself to an explicitly ‘political’ cosmopolitan project, the success and failure of his international endeavours are best understood within this broader intellectual milieu. </jats:p>
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DS Asia |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2013 15:16 |
Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 05:59 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/7679 |