Nationalism

Rabindranath Tagore delivered these lectures while nationalism was reshaping Asia and Europe, and used them to question what the nation as an organising idea costs a society. The volume collects his addresses on Japan, the West and India, drawing a line between a people and the political machinery built in their name. Tagore's argument is moral rather than partisan, written in the same cadenced prose as his poetry, and it reads now both as a document of its period and as a live question. Details that matter: • Lectures on nationalism in Japan, the West and India • A critique of the nation-state as a mechanical arrangement • Prose shaped by the author's work as a poet • A short volume suitable for close reading Useful for students of political thought, South Asian history and readers of Tagore's non-fiction, available from Boipoka.