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100			_aLamba, Rinku _951817
245			_aRevisiting Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism.
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a57(3). May, 2023: p.740-775
520			_aThis article revisits Rabindranath Tagore’s critique of nationalism as well as his interventions on the theme of samaj. The claim is that contained within Tagore’s reflections on nationalism and samaj is a vision of political community that is stipulated as an alternative to the one espoused by the nation-state mode of politics. Tagore’s formulations of the possibilities within samaj suggest his commitment to normative orders grounded in a notion of relationship as a basis for social cooperation. Tagore contrasts and prioritizes the relationship-based orientation of samaj with what he calls the ‘mechanical’ emphasis of forms of community associated with the nation-state. Tagore articulated his views during the high noon of anti-colonial nationalism in India, and he offers a striking secular and modern political alternative to nationalist visions of community, which I classify as upholding a vision of societal politics. In underscoring the modern and political bases of Tagore’s critique of nationalism and his endorsement of social and political forms related to samaj, I suggest that it would be a mistake to classify Tagore’s perspective on nationalism and samaj as reflecting anti-political, or local-traditionalist, or aesthetic responses to the problems attached to national models of community. – Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/revisiting-rabindranath-tagores-critique-of-nationalism/6F2ACF271F217B5931D6A9F436E368E9
773			_aModern Asian Studies
906			_aNATIONALISM
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