Sabyasachi Bhattacharya retired as Professor of History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been Vice-Chancellor of Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, and Chairman, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. His recent publications are: Talking Back: the Idea of Civilization in the Indian Nationalist Discourse; The Mahatma and the Poet: Letters and Debates between Gandhi and Tagore; Vande Mataram: the Biography of a Song.
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'This intellectual biography of Tagore, perhaps the first of its kind, portrays him as a man who was deeply skeptical, self-critical, tormented by conflicts in his inner life , aware of the historical significance of his times and continually interacted w... SEE MORE