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The Quest for ‘medieval mysticism’ and Vaiṣṇava Vedānta: The Tagore-Sen-Underhill Circle, and the Chicago Moment of Mahanambrata Brahmachari
A distinctive characteristic of the nationalist project to recover perceived core values of an ‘Indian civilisation’—e.g., non-violence, diversity,...
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Mystics, Scholars, and Spiritual Cosmopolitans in Modern South Asia: An Introduction
This introductory chapter revisits the existing theoretical and conceptual repertoire for a critical study of early twentieth-century Indian...
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Rabindranath Tagore and Arnold Bake: Modernist Aesthetics and Cross-Cultural Communication in Bengali Folk Music
In 2009, Reba Som wrote a biography of Rabindranath Tagore with music as the key theme to understand the man and his work.1 The fact that such a book...