Rabindranath Tagore's literary and cultural oeuvre - Single View

This block seminar shall focus on Rabindranath Tagore’s literary and cultural oeuvre. He was the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize (in 1913) in Literature. Tagore is revered as a novelist, poet, short story writer and playwright. His ideas as a political thinker and social reformer, musician, composer, painter, scientist, environmentalist, and educator are deeply admired. His creative oeuvre pursued promoting long-term multicultural, spiritual and social understanding; however, that remains among his most significant legacies, issues of caste and gender in Indian Literature in English and explore how this writing challenges and resists the age-old institutions of caste and patriarchy in Indian society.