Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’
Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi: An Epistolary Account, 1912–1940
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9780199481217
Publication date:
09/01/2018
Hardback
600 pages
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ISBN:
9780199481217
Publication date:
09/01/2018
Hardback
600 pages
Edited by Uma Das Gupta
This book is an epistolary account of the lives of three remarkable individuals-Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. The study explores two closely related themes, their friendship and their principles for attaining Indian freedom. The freedom they worked for was not merely political, however, in an unequal world that necessarily had to be an ultimate goal.
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Edited by Uma Das Gupta
Description
Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. Brought together for the first time, the letters in this volume not only bear witness to their friendship but also reveal the universal principles they adopted to pursue freedom from colonial rule.
Together, the three friends have given us an alternative legacy—the legacy of a nationalism that worked with complete restraint, that cried halt to the freedom movement whenever it turned violent, and that proclaimed the way forward to be in self-suffering and not in hatred of the enemy. They firmly believed that there must be no separation between the spiritual and the political, even in a political struggle. As Tagore wrote: ‘I know such spiritual faith may not lead us to political success, but I say to myself, as India has ever said: Tatah kim? Even then, what?’
Offering a glimpse into the recesses of their minds, their letters help us see what their lives were like beyond the myths and legends that often surround such iconic individuals.
About the Editor
Uma Das Gupta is former Research Professor, Social Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Delhi, India. She has taught at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. She served the United States Educational Foundation in India as Director for Eastern India. She held the Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and Harvard University, USA, and the National Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. She has authored and edited several volumes on Rabindranath Tagore.
Edited by Uma Das Gupta
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Their Friendship, Their Struggles
2. South Africa and India’s Honour
3. Santiniketan and Phoenix Schools
4. World War I
5. Dilemmas, Depressions, Uplifts
6. Simla, Britain, India
7. Rowlatt Bills and After
8. Non-cooperation
9. Their Differences
10. Movement in the 1920s
11. The South African Indian Problem in the 1920s and1930s
12. Movement in the 1930s
13. Gandhi’s Work, Gandhi’s Message, Andrews, Tagore
14. Tagore’s Works, Tagore’s Message, Andrews, Gandhi
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor
Edited by Uma Das Gupta
Edited by Uma Das Gupta
Description
Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. Brought together for the first time, the letters in this volume not only bear witness to their friendship but also reveal the universal principles they adopted to pursue freedom from colonial rule.
Together, the three friends have given us an alternative legacy—the legacy of a nationalism that worked with complete restraint, that cried halt to the freedom movement whenever it turned violent, and that proclaimed the way forward to be in self-suffering and not in hatred of the enemy. They firmly believed that there must be no separation between the spiritual and the political, even in a political struggle. As Tagore wrote: ‘I know such spiritual faith may not lead us to political success, but I say to myself, as India has ever said: Tatah kim? Even then, what?’
Offering a glimpse into the recesses of their minds, their letters help us see what their lives were like beyond the myths and legends that often surround such iconic individuals.
About the Editor
Uma Das Gupta is former Research Professor, Social Science Division, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata and Delhi, India. She has taught at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and at the Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India. She served the United States Educational Foundation in India as Director for Eastern India. She held the Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and Harvard University, USA, and the National Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India. She has authored and edited several volumes on Rabindranath Tagore.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Their Friendship, Their Struggles
2. South Africa and India’s Honour
3. Santiniketan and Phoenix Schools
4. World War I
5. Dilemmas, Depressions, Uplifts
6. Simla, Britain, India
7. Rowlatt Bills and After
8. Non-cooperation
9. Their Differences
10. Movement in the 1920s
11. The South African Indian Problem in the 1920s and1930s
12. Movement in the 1930s
13. Gandhi’s Work, Gandhi’s Message, Andrews, Tagore
14. Tagore’s Works, Tagore’s Message, Andrews, Gandhi
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
About the Editor
