04362namaa2200829uu 4500 oapen97217 oapen 20251217011846.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 250122s2025a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003335566 9781032371535 9781032987668 10.4324/9781003335566 doi oapen oapen eng dc A thema AG thema AGA thema D thema DS thema G thema GT thema GTM thema J thema JB thema JN thema JNF thema N thema NH thema NHF thema Chanda, Sukalyan edt A Poet's Ashram Rabindranath Tagore's Experimental Community in Colonial India Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2025 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star The remarkably creative life Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) lived has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the founder of an experimental ashram community remains unexplored. A Poet's Ashram retrieves his idea of his ashram through an exploration of his writings on the institutions he built. The ashram community Tagore endeavoured to create in Santiniketan during the period 1901-1941 was his response to the question of modernity. Through his effort to reinvent the ancient Indian ideal of the ashram, he articulated his idea of a mode of collective living that was meant to be grounded in a set of ethical values derived from India's civilizational inheritance. This book traces the history of how his ashram school evolved into a community that practised egalitarianism, inclusiveness and creativity through its daily existence. It explores a range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century discourses and Tagore's engagement with them in order to situate that idea within its historical context, a critical juncture in the history of modern India and the world. This book's reading of his project unravels its anti-colonial underpinnings and the commonalities it shared with some of the other similar experimental communities that challenged illiberal ideologies and power relations during the early twentieth century. Meticulously researched and perceptively written, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of history, political science, culture studies and postcolonial studies. It will also be of interest to educationists, educators and those interested in colonial modernity, modern Indian history, philosophy of education, institution building, peace, inclusivity and sustainability. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Asian history thema Biography, Literature and Literary studies thema Education thema Educational strategies and policy thema History and Archaeology thema History of art thema History thema Interdisciplinary studies thema Literature: history and criticism thema Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects thema Regional / International studies thema Society and culture: general thema Society and Social Sciences thema The Arts: treatments and subjects thema The Arts thema communal living community educational experiment experimental ashram Rabindranath Tagore's ashram Rabindranath Tagore's ideas Rabindranath Tagore's works Santiniketan universalist spirituality Chanda, Sukalyan aut OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/97217 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36856 36856