Abstract
Set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi (home rule) movement in Bengal, following its sudden and arbitrary partition by the then British viceroy in India, Lord Curzon, in 1905, The Home and the World was originally published in Bengali
(as Ghare Baire) in 1915. Later, it was translated and published in English by the author's nephew, Surendranath Tagore (with active cooperation from the author himself), in 1919. The Bengali original was published two years after the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the same year in which he received a knighthood from King George V of England-an accolade he came to renounce in 1919 in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Punjab, by the notorious General Dyer.
(as Ghare Baire) in 1915. Later, it was translated and published in English by the author's nephew, Surendranath Tagore (with active cooperation from the author himself), in 1919. The Bengali original was published two years after the author was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature and the same year in which he received a knighthood from King George V of England-an accolade he came to renounce in 1919 in protest against the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Punjab, by the notorious General Dyer.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore |
| Editors | Mohammad Quayum |
| Place of Publication | New Delhi |
| Publisher | Orient BlackSwan |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages | 233-247 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-8125043195 |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Keywords
- literary criticism
- Bangladeshi literature
- Bangladeshi writing
- essays