Mihaela Gligor is Researcher in the Philosophy of Culture at the Romanian Academy "George Bariţiu" Institute of History Cluj-Napoca; Founder and Director of Cluj Center for Indian Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Elisabetta Marino is Associate Professor of English Literature and the Head of "Asia and the West," an International Research Centre based at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

"Eighty years have passed since Rabindranath Tagore’s death and the Bengali writer never cease to inspire people, not just in his homeland but beyond its confines. Tagore was the first truly global figure of India and his writings as a poet, prose-writer and cultural thinker are nowadays more and more scrutinised in a postcolonial light. This volume with essays on how Tagore’s poetry, religious or educational ideas, short stories, dialogue with leading intellectuals, travel writing reached or had the potential to reach beyond Bengal, is an important addition to an ever better understanding of one of the finest minds of modern India."Imre Bangha, University of Oxford, UK"Rabindranath Tagore has always travelled, and in his situated universalism he continues to go beyond ‘narrow domestic walls.’ This is an excellent collection of papers on his powerful and increasingly pertinent legacy."Tabish Khair, Aarhus University, Denmark"An extraordinary compendium that sheds new light on an extraordinary man, his times, and the profound impact he had on Indian arts, literary culture, and moral imagination. "Namit Arora, author of Indians: A brief history of a Civilization

• List of Contributors1. IntroductionMihaela Gligor and Elisabetta Marino2. Cultural Transfer, Rabindranath Tagore’s Travels and Travel WritingFakrul Alam3. Travelling Fictions: The English Stories of Rabindranath TagoreRadha Chakravarty4. Du Bois and Tagore: Between Transnational Solidarity and Cultural AppropriationElisabetta Marino5. Tagore’s Educational Paradigm and Its Relevance to Modern TeachingEleonora Olivia Bălănescu6. Tagore and Gandhi: Their Deep Thoughts about Their CountryUma Das Gupta7. The Mysterious Inner World. Remarks on Representation of Religion in Rabindranath Tagore’s Sādhanā, and The Religion of ManMihaela Gligor8. ‘All broken truths are evil.’ Rabindranath Tagore on the life-transforming freedom (mukti) Halina Marlewicz9. Women’s ‘Voices’ in Rabindranath Tagore’s Later Poetry: A Postcolonial Perspective Bashabi Fraser10. Strangeness and the ‘New Woman.’ Rereading Rabindranath Tagore’s The LaboratoryParomita Mukherjee11. Cinematographic Adaptations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Short Stories – Between Reality, Lyricism, and Visual PoetryDaniela RogobeteIndex

Mihaela Gligor is Researcher in the Philosophy of Culture at the Romanian Academy "George Bariţiu" Institute of History Cluj-Napoca; Founder and Director of Cluj Center for Indian Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania.Elisabetta Marino is Associate Professor of English Literature and the Head of "Asia and the West," an International Research Centre based at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy.

"Eighty years have passed since Rabindranath Tagore’s death and the Bengali writer never cease to inspire people, not just in his homeland but beyond its confines. Tagore was the first truly global figure of India and his writings as a poet, prose-writer and cultural thinker are nowadays more and more scrutinised in a postcolonial light. This volume with essays on how Tagore’s poetry, religious or educational ideas, short stories, dialogue with leading intellectuals, travel writing reached or had the potential to reach beyond Bengal, is an important addition to an ever better understanding of one of the finest minds of modern India."Imre Bangha, University of Oxford, UK"Rabindranath Tagore has always travelled, and in his situated universalism he continues to go beyond ‘narrow domestic walls.’ This is an excellent collection of papers on his powerful and increasingly pertinent legacy."Tabish Khair, Aarhus University, Denmark"An extraordinary compendium that sheds new light on an extraordinary man, his times, and the profound impact he had on Indian arts, literary culture, and moral imagination. "Namit Arora, author of Indians: A brief history of a Civilization

• List of Contributors1. IntroductionMihaela Gligor and Elisabetta Marino2. Cultural Transfer, Rabindranath Tagore’s Travels and Travel WritingFakrul Alam3. Travelling Fictions: The English Stories of Rabindranath TagoreRadha Chakravarty4. Du Bois and Tagore: Between Transnational Solidarity and Cultural AppropriationElisabetta Marino5. Tagore’s Educational Paradigm and Its Relevance to Modern TeachingEleonora Olivia Bălănescu6. Tagore and Gandhi: Their Deep Thoughts about Their CountryUma Das Gupta7. The Mysterious Inner World. Remarks on Representation of Religion in Rabindranath Tagore’s Sādhanā, and The Religion of ManMihaela Gligor8. ‘All broken truths are evil.’ Rabindranath Tagore on the life-transforming freedom (mukti) Halina Marlewicz9. Women’s ‘Voices’ in Rabindranath Tagore’s Later Poetry: A Postcolonial Perspective Bashabi Fraser10. Strangeness and the ‘New Woman.’ Rereading Rabindranath Tagore’s The LaboratoryParomita Mukherjee11. Cinematographic Adaptations of Rabindranath Tagore’s Short Stories – Between Reality, Lyricism, and Visual PoetryDaniela RogobeteIndex