Imagining "One World": Rabindranath Tagore's Critique of Nationalism

Mohammad Quayum

Imagining "One World": Rabindranath Tagore's Critique of Nationalism

College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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Abstract

In a poem entitled, “The Sunset of the Century,” written on the last day of the nineteenth century, India’s messianic poet and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), launched a fierce diatribe on nationalism. In a mood of outrage and disenchantment, tempered with intermittent hope, he wrote:
The last sun of the century sets amidst the blood-red clouds of the West and the whirlwind of hatred.
The naked passion of the self-love of Nations, in its drunken delirium of greed, is dancing to the clash of steel and howling verses of vengeance.
The hungry self of the Nation shall burst in a violence of fury from its shameless feeding.
For it has made the world its food.
And licking it, crunching it and swallowing it in big morsels, It swells and swells
Till in the midst of its unholy feast descends the sudden shaft of heaven piercing its heart of grossness.
(Nationalism 80)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Tagore, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Subtitle of host publication	Perceptions, Contestations and Contemporary Relevance
Editors	MOHAMMAD A. QUAYUM
Place of Publication	London, UK
Publisher	Routledge: Taylor and Francis Group
Chapter	3
Pages	65-85
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Electronic)	9781000042368, 9780429285110
ISBN (Print)	9780367218720
Publication status	Published - 2020

Keywords

Tagore, Rabindranath,-1861-1941
Rabindranath Tagore
Criticism and interpretation.
ideas on nationalism
rhetoric of cosmopolitanism
inclusivist ideology

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