Rereading Tagore

This is a reader’s book. It looks at Tagore through his texts. It reads his novels Gora and Jogajog in depth, and Char Adhyay as a crucible of our time. His plays Dakghar and Muktadhara are taken up briefly but succinctly. That he is above all a poet is amply illustrated, not by his poems alone but songs—a principal thrust in these pages. His love of Nanak along with other medieval Sants is part of his vision of India.

Amiya Dev

Amiya Dev was Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has written widely in Bengali and English, on Tagore and after, on literary interrelation, and on literary culture as such. He has also edited and co- edited a number of volumes including Science, Literature and Aesthetics, and Tagore and China. He was a Vice- President of the International Comparative Literature Association and Vice- Chancellor, Vidyasagar University.