Santiniketan ashram's political context

Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan ashram emerges as a pivotal laboratory for his political thought, offering alternative conceptual frameworks to dominant nationalist narratives of early 20th-century Bengal. Analyzing the Swadeshi Movement and post-partition politics (1905), this study identifies 'swadeshbhakti,' 'mukti,' and 'manush' as Tagore's proposed counter-narratives to prevalent notions like swaraj and parochial identities. By tracing influences from literary, religious, and national movements, the research situates Santiniketan within the complex political landscape of Swadeshi Bengal, providing a foundation for understanding its educational experiment's political dimensions.

Banerjee, A. (2026). Santiniketan ashram’s political context. Pedagogy as Politics in Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan Ashram, 62–89. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003363965-3