Bindu Puri
The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth
- Springer India
- 2016
- Taschenbuch
- 220 Seiten
- ISBN 9788132228486
Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance ---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi¿s mantra connecting ¿swaraj¿ and ¿charkhä. The author tracks the development of this dialogue and argues that the debate was about more fundamental issues, such as the nature of truth and swaraj/freedom and the possibilities of untruth that Tagore saw in Gandhi¿s movements for truth and freedom. Puri shows that the differences between the two men¿s perspectives came from differently negotiated relationships to (and understandings of)
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