Three Tagores—Dwarkanath, Debendranath and Rabindranath

Bidyut Chakrabarty was former Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Before he was appointed Vice Chancellor of Visva Bharati in 2018, he served the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India, for more than three decades. He has published in many areas of Political Science.

• Preface and acknowledgements viii Introduction xv PART A Dwarkanath Tagore 1 1 Shaping Bengal’s socio-ideological universe 7 2 A successful entrepreneur in adverse circumstances 30 PART B Debendranath Tagore 63 3 Continuity with Dwarkanath Tagore’s socio-ideological ideas 69 4 Breaking with the past by reinforcing the indigenous intellectual traditions 94 PART C Rabindranath Tagore 127 5 Espousal of both derivative and contextual socio-economic and politico-ideological thoughts 133 6 Articulation of an innovative ‘nationalist’ design 165 Concluding observations 195 Select bibliography 199 Index 205