My life in my words / Rabindranath Tagore ; selected and edited with an introduction by Uma Das Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941

Contributor:

Dasgupta, Uma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Authors, Bengali--Biography.

Authors, Bengali.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 395 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York, New York : Penguin, Viking, 2006.

Contents:

Part 1 My Life

1 My Family and the Changing Times 3

2 My Boyhood Days 15

3 My Father and Mother 27

4 A New Chapter in My Life 39

5 Leaving Home: Ahmedabad and England, 1878-79 51

6 My Education 63

7 Writing Poetry 75

8 Restless Years, 1883-90 87

9 On the Threshold of Thirty 99

10 My Wife and Children 111

11 Letters to My Children 125

12 Starting My School at Santiniketan, 1901 136

13 My Experience of the Swadeshi Movement 148

14 Gitanjali and the Nobel Prize, 1913 160

15 My Travels in Japan and the USA, 1916-17 172

16 Renouncing the Knighthood, and My Arguments against Non-cooperation 183

17 'A World in One Nest': Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan 194

18 Visva-Bharati 'Sriniketan': A Scheme for Village Reconstruction 204

19 In China, 1924 215

20 An Unexpected Stop in Argentina 227

21 Gandhiji and I 239

22 In Europe Again, 1926 253

23 An Uneasy though Versatile Period, 1927-31 265

24 More Travel, More Poetry, More Drama 279

25 Crisis and Hope: My Last Years, 1937-41 293

Part 2 My Thoughts

26 On Myself 309

27 On Religion 319

28 On Nature 328

29 On My Country 336

30 On British Rule in India 348

31 To My Friends 360

32 From My Poems and Songs 369.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780670999163

0670999164

OCLC:

76940173