Humanizing Humanity : Tagore, Gandhi and Ambedkar / Bidyut Chakrabarty.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chakrabarty, Bidyut, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.

Gandhi, Mahatma.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

Delhi : Bloomsbury Publishing (IN), 2024.

Place of Publication:

New York : Delhi, 2024.

System Details:

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Summary:

Humanizing Humanity is distinctively framed advocacy of the ways in which the concept of humanity has been defended by various ideologues of India like Tagore, Gandhi, and Ambedkar. By grounding itself in the epistemology of intellectual history, the book delineates how these three major thinkers visualised the ways in which society can be better humanized. Such a process of humanization for these thinkers forms the bedrock of the trajectory in which humanity may be preserved, amidst intense authoritarianism and the violent quest for power by a small minority in the society. The book is an attempt at exploring the strands of inter-textuality that exist when Tagore, Gandhi and Ambedkar's thinking is situated in the ontic and epistemic context of a few humans' tendency to destroy humanity and the efforts of another section to create conditions for its preservation. Bidyut Chakrabarty does this by comparing the ways in which the Federalist Papers of the United States of America and the Indian Constitution manifest as quintessential texts that uphold the principles of liberty, equality, justice, and the protection of the weaker sections of society from structured strands of domination and exploitation.

Contents:

Introduction Part A: Rabindranath Tagore (1961-1941) Chapter 1: Literary insights and universal humanism Chapter 2: Essays reverberating concerns for humanity Part B: MK Gandhi (1869-1948) Chapter 3: Campaigns for humanizing humanity Chapter 4: Conceptualizing humanizing humanity Part C: BR Ambedkar (1891-1950) Chapter 5: Reconceptualization of humanizing humanity Chapter 6: Humanizing humanity through constitutional liberalism Conclusion Bibliography Index

ISBN:

9789356409576

OCLC:

1443081736