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Remembering Rabindranath Tagore
them, but blended all and affected it into another synthesis with his poetic genius. Tagore
looked forward to a universal humanity, which is evolving through nationality to fulfill a
spiritual destiny. Tagore placed the greatest emphasis on the dignity, freedom and equality
of individual and at the same time emphasized the obligation of the individual to the human
society. Rabindranath Tagore wielded his pen with a new stimulating national resurgence
and contributed for the political awakening of his countrymen with no identification of
self with any group of active political participants but as a free individual and still remains
as a mighty spreading tree routed to the Indian soil.
Endnotes
1. Mabett, I.W., 1968. A Short History of India. Melbourne: Cassel. p. 190.
2. Konolkar, G.D., 1963. The Lute and the Plough. Bombay: The Book Centre. p. 15.
3. Tagore, Rabindranath, 1917. Nationalism. London: Macmillan. p. 9.
4. Hay, Stephan, 1970. Asian Ideas of East and West. Harvard University Press. p. 32.
5. Gordon, L.A., 1974. Bengal: The Nationalist Movement 1876-1940. New York: Columbia
University Press. p. 11.
6. Mabett, I.W., Op.cit. p. 97.
7. Tagore, Rabindranath, Op.cit. p. 97.
8. Sarkar, Sumit., 1973. The Svadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908. New Delhi: Peoples
Publishing House. p. 155.
9. Ibid. p. 157.
10. Nationalism. p. 97
11. Tagore, Rabindranath, 1919. Home and the World. London: Macmillan. p. 17-18.
12. Ibid. pp. 12-20.
13. Ibid. pp. 138-139.
14. Ibid. p. 45.
15. Sarkar, Susobhan., 1970. Bengal Renaissance and other essays. New Delhi: Peoples publishing
House. p. 167.
16. Ibid. p. 179.
17. Gordon, L.A., Op.cit. p. 93.