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The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency. Their divergent ends and objectives were held together, if temporarily, by a euphoria for the vastness and integratedness of the world and the desire and optimism to remake it and shape the future of humanity.
This volume highlights this period in the political and social mobilization that comprises the “internationalist moment,” through the lens of South Asians' interactions with a wider world and the wider world's interactions with South Asia. The essays contribute to a growing, but as yet, inadequate field of the intellectual history of South Asia.
Srečko Kosovel and Rabindranath Tagore: Universalist Hopes from the Margins of Europe
Srečko Kosovel and Rabindranath Tagore: Universalist Hopes from the Margins of Europe
The traveller has to knock on every alien door to come
to his own, and one has to wander
through all the outer worlds to reach
the innermost shrine at the end.1
—Rabindranath Tagore
You have to wade through a sea
of words to come
to yourself. Then alone,
forgetting all speech,
go back to the world.2
—Srečko Kosovel
Introduction: Frameworks of Comparison
In 2008, within a few months of each other, two new books of poetry in translation came out in England bearing the same title—The Golden Boat. One contained a selection from the extensive oeuvre of the world-renowned Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), and the other the selected poems of the ...
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