Index

Abbott, Lyman, 16 Bauls,46 Achebe, Chinua, 141 Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, 11 L'Adieu ala Vie, 130 Beerbohm, Max, 18 African writers, 143 Bengal, 12, 13, 26, 27, 28, 51, 84, 88, Ajanta Cave paintings, 8, 113 100, 110, 145 Agriculture, 96 Bengal Academy, 145 Ahmedabad, 30 Bengal partition, 17 AJfano, Franco, 123 Bengal Renaissance, 50, 51, 52, 54 AJhambra Theatre, London, 123, Bengali language, 1, 8, 13, 27, 29, 35, 127 36,42,142 Alice in Wonderland, 33 Bengali literature, 3, 8, 9, 11, 14,29, Amiel's Journal, 33 33,35,36,37,38,39,42,114 Amritsar massacre, 128 Benjamin, Walter, 109 see also Jalianwalla Bagh Beowulf, 35 massacre, Berg,AJban, 131, 132, 133 Andersen, Hans Christian, 30 Berhampore Gessore), 27 Andrews, C. F., 63, 96, 99 Berlin, 133 Anderson, James Drummond, 8 Berlin Exhibition of Tagore's art, The Arabian Nights, 30, 79, 122 108 Argentina, 97 Bhanaphul (Wild Flower), 52 Aristotle, 38 Bhanusinha (pen-name of Aronson,AJex,l04 ), 27 Art deco, 110 Bhiirati (Bengali journal), 31, 52 Art nouveau, 110 Bharatvasher Itihasha Dhara (A Vision The Artist, 115 of India's History), 58, 59 Asian languages, 142 Bhartrhari, 124 Asian literature, 143 Bhiisa Katha, 42 Asian Review, 20 Bhattacharya, Upendranath, 43 The Athenaeum (journal), 6, 17 Bidou, Henri, 106, 107 Attenborough, Richard, 153 Birdwood, Sir George, 7, 8 Aurobindo Ghose, 50 Birmingham Exhibition of Tagore's Art, 106 Bach, J. S., 106 Bisarjan (Sacrifice), 143 Baines, William, 127 see also Sacrifice Balak (Bengali journal), 31, 32 Blake, William, 6 Balej, Francis, 132 Blavatsky, Helena, 125 Bali,123 Boer War, 55 Bandhu, 10 Boers, 52 Bangardarshan (Bengali journal), 150 Bolpur, 27, 98 Bangladesh, 144, 145 Bombay Presidency, 30 Baroda, 110 Bone, Muirhead, 107 Bartok, Bela, 133 Book illustration, 110 Bauer, Jeffrey, 133 Bose, Jagadish, 109 Bauhaus, 109 Bose, Nandalal, 107

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Bose, Rajnarian, 53, 54 Cinque Liriche, 130 Boston Exhibition of Tagore's art, The Cloud Messenger, 124 106 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 78, 86 Boulez, Pierre, 134 Colorado, 15 Boxer Rebellion, 55 Commercolly, 27 Brahmo Samaj, 12, 14,22,32,50,51, Commonwealth,141 52,53,54,56,59,154 Commonwealth Institute, London, Brahms, Johannes, 123 1,3 Brajabuli dialect, 27 Coomaraswamy, Ananda, 7, 9, 106- Brent Tagore Festival (London, 7 1985),144 Copland, Aaron, 133 Bridge, Frank, 127, 128, 131 Corelli, Marie, 33 Bridges, Lord, 21 Cornell University, 95, 99 Bridges, Robert, 21 Cornford, Frances, 6 British Caribbean writing, 146 The Crescent Moon, 99,122,130,146 British Council, 98 Creston, Paul, 129 Britten, Benjamin, 127, 133 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 100 Brooke, Revd Stopford, 11, 12, 16, Curzon, Lord George Nathaniel, 17 21 Cuttack (Orissa), 27 Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 39 Buddhism, 123 Dali, Salvador, 110 The Bullock Report, 141, 142 Darjeeling, 69 Burmah,13 Dartington College, 94, 96, 97, 98, Byron, Lord George Gordon, 86 99,100 Das Lied von der Erde, 131 Caitali, 29 Debatar Grash (Snatched by the Calcutta, 7, 8, 9, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, Gods),147 36,58, 74, 75, 94, 98, 100, 109, Debussy, Claude, 123, 130 144, 146, 150, 152 Delage, Maurice, 123-4 Calcutta University, 53 The Defeat of Prithiraj, 27 Cambridge University, 83, 84, 86, 94 Delius, Frederick, 123 Caribbean music, 142 Dickens, Charles, 33, 86 Caribbean writers, 143 Dickinson, Goldsworthy Lowes, 94 Carpenter, John Alden, 129 Diwali,142 Casella, Alfredo, 130 Don Quixote, 30 Caste, 54, 60, 70, 72 Duparc, Henri, 129 Celtic Revival, 12 Durasa (Hope for the Unattainable), Cervantes, Miguel, 30 69 Charulata, 143, 151 Chaucer, Geoffrey, 35, 36, 84 Chaudhurani, Indira Devi East Bengal, 26, 40, 41 see Indira Devi East India Association, 20 Chaudhuri, Pramatha, 30 Eckmann, J. P., 110 Chicago, 129 Edinburgh, 131 China, 52, 55, 62, 97 Eid, 142 Chitor, seige of, 124 Elgar, Sir Edward, 126, 129 Chokher Bali (Binodini), 150, 151 Eliot, George, 33 Citra (Irridescent Beauty), 34, 122 Eliot, T. S., 19,60 Christ's Hospital, 85 Elmhirst, Dorothy, 95, 97 Index 159

Elmhirst Institute of Community Govemment School of Art Studies, 94, 96 (Calcutta), 7 Elmhirst, Leonard K., 94-101 Govindadas, 27 Erasures (in Tagore's drawings), Grand Trunk Road, 98 109, 110, 117 Grieg, Edvard, 129 Ernst, Max, 107, 112 Grimm's Fairy Tales, 30 Examination Boards, (UK), 143 Gujarati, 144 Expressionism, 108 Gupta, Kedar Nath Das, 123, 127 Guptadhiin (Hidden Riches), 73 Fascism,62,63,153 FestivaI'of India (London, 1982), Hageman, Richard, 129 143 Hampstead Heath, London, 10 Field, Revd Matthew, 85 Harvard University, 14 Fogg,Eri~127,128 Harvey, Jonathan, 134 Foulds, John, 123, 127 Hasyakautuk, 32 Four Tagore Songs, 127 Havell, Ernest B., 7, 9 Fox Strangways, Arthur Henry, 8, Hay, Stephen, 22, 52 19, 124, 125 Helen's Babies, 33 Francis of Assisi, St, 6 Henn, Katherine, 21 Freud, Sigmund, 110 Herringham, Christiana, 8, 21 Fruit-Gathering, 16 Herringham, Sir Wilmot, 8, 21 Fry, Roger, 8 Higginbottom, Sam, 95 The Hillside, 127 Gal, Hans, 131 Hindi songs, 32 Galland, Antoine, 122 Hindu Mela, 54 Galpa Guccha (Story Collection), 67 Hinduism, 50, 54, 56, 58, 63, 152, Gandhi, Indira, 98 154 Gandhi Memorial Center, Holst, Gustav, 124, 126 Washington, 134 Holst, Imogen, 98 Gandhi, Mohandas K., 28, 51, 63, Holzel,110 153 Houghton Library, Harvard, 9 Ganges, 72 Huxley, Julian, 94 The Gardener, 122, 130, 131, 132, 133 Hyderabad, Nizam of, 8 Germany, 63, 106, 107 Hyderabad State, 8 Ghare Biiire (Home and the World), 112 Ibsen, Henrik, 150 Ghiiter Kathii (The Landing Steps' llbert Bill (1884), 53 Tale), 68-9, 70 Illinois University, 59 Ghosh, Kalimohan, 96 Imperialism, 53, 60, 62, 153 Gide, Andre, 22, 124, 129 Independence Movement (Indian), Gibran, Kahlil, 5 153 Gilse, Jan van, 133 India, 1, 3, 7, 8, 12, 13,28,58,59,88, Gitanjali, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 89,95,108,111,125,144 16, 19,57, 122, 125, 127, 129, India Office Library, 20 130, 131, 133, 134, 144, 146, 147, The India Society (London), 1, 7, 8, 148 9,19,20,125,126 Gitanjali-Hymen, 133 Indian Art and Letters (journal), 20 Goethe, J. W., 91,122 Indian arts, 113-14 Gor~56-7, 112,154-5 Indian Civil Service, 20, 30 160 Index

Indian literature, 122, 124 Korin, Ogata, 110 Indian music, 124 Kripalani, Krishna, 14 Indian Mutiny, 69 Krishna, 149 Indian National Congress, 53, 54-5 Kshanika (Ephemera), 13,41, 42, 43, Indira Devi, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 44 108 Kshudhita pashan (Hungry Stones), Indology, 143 77-S,79,80,81 Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique­ Lamb, Charles, 85 Musique, Paris, 134 Lamming, George, 141 Ireland, 11, 12, 13 Langaard, Rued, 133 Ireland, Home Rule, 11 Lawrence, D. H., 19,86,87,88 Italy, 63, 97 Leginska, Ethel, 133 Life of Tag ore (documentary film), Jalianwalla Bagh (massacre), 55, 143 112, 153 Locke, John, 86 see also Amritsar Loewenbach, Joseph, 132 Jana Gana Mana (Mind of the London, 10 People), 59, 154 London Transport, 110 Jamicek, Leos, 132 Loreto Convent (Calcutta), 30, 32, Japan, 15, 18,62,63,97 33 Java, 123 Ludwig, King of Bavaria, 123 Jessore, 27, 30, 31 Lyric Symphony, 131 Jivita 0 Mrita (Living and Dead), 71-2 McCormack, John, 127 Jnandanandini Devi, 30, 31 Macleod, Fiona, 16 Jones, Sir William, 122 Macmillan (publishers), 1,6,9,20, Joplin, Scott, 129 125 Jorasanko house, 27, 31, 34, 51,146 Maeterlinck, Maurice, 16 Joyce, James, 19 Mahabharata, 124 Jugendstil, 110 Mahamiiya, 70-1 Mahler, Gustav, 131 Kabuliwalla, 144 Majumdar, Santosh, 96 Kadambari Devi, 31, 34 Malevich, Kazimir, 106 Kali,54 Malraux, Andre, 105 Kalidasa, 122, 123, 124 Manasi (The Imaginary Woman), Kaligram, 27 27,34,41 Kallstenius, Edvin, 133 Manbhanjan (Appeasement), 151, Kandinsky, Wassily, 109, 125 152 Kangra paintings, 113 Manihara (The Lost Jewels), 77-S, Kankal (The Skeleton), 73--4 81,143 Kari 0 Kamal (Sharps and Flats), 34 Marie Baskirtscheffs Journal, 33 Karpel£$, Andree, 105 Mastarmasay (The Tutor), 74-5, 76, Kauffer, McKnight, 110 77 Kavi Kahini (Poet's Story), 52 Matal ('The Drunkard'), 44-6 Khyber Pass, 98 Maupassant, Guy de, 67, 75 King's College, Cambridge, 83 Max-Muller, F., 125 Klee, Paul, 109, 112 Mazoomdar, P. c., 126 Kopf, David, 22 Meier, Ernst, 123 Index 161

The Merchant of Venice, 39 Orissa, 27 Messiaen, Oliver, 130 Ouida,33 Milhaud, Darius, 129-30 The Outlook (journal), 16 Milton, John, 84 Mitra, Nabagopal, 53, 54 Pabna district, 27, 28 Monroe, Harriet, 17 Padmavati, 124 Moore, Thomas, 31, 32 Pakistan, 144 More, Paul Elmer, 16 Pather Shanchay (World ofTravel), 9, Moscow, 106 10,22 , 31 Paris, 130, 134 Mughal paintings, 113 Paris Exhibition of Tagore's art, Mukherjee, Sujit, 22 105-6, 108 Miinchener Telegramm, 106 The Parrot's Training, 88 The Music of Hindostan, 8 Parsifal, 123 My Boyhood Days, 144 Personality, 149 My Reminiscences, 144 Peshawar, 98 Phanka (Deception), 147 Nama Barsha (New Rain), 148 Pilgrim's Progress, 30 Narendrapur, 30 Pioneer in Education, 94 Nashtanir (The Broken Nest), 143, Pirali community, 31 151 The Planets, 124 Nashtanir (Charulatii), film version, Poe, Edgar Allan, 33 143 Poeme de l'Extase, 126 The Nation (journal), 6,14,15,16 Poeme du Gitanjali, 130 National Anthem of India, 59, 154 Poet and Plowman, 94 National Association of Teachers of Poetry (Chicago journal), 15, 129 English, 143 Pond Lyceum, 16 National curriculum (in UK Post-Impressionist Exhibition education), 142 (London, 1910),8 National Endowment for the The Post Office, 130 Humanities (Washington), 21 Postmiistiir, 143 National Paper (Indian journal), 53 Potulny Saenec, 132 National Theatre, London, 143 Pound, Ezra, 19, 124,129 Nationalism, 2, 15, 17, 18,59-61, 128 Prague, 131, 132 Nationalism in India, 17, 18, 28, 50, Primitive art, 107 53,55,60,104,112,153 Prince of Wales Theatre, London, New York, 95 127 Newton, Isaac, 84 Prokofiev, Sergei, 133 Ngugi wa Th'iongo, 141 Prometheus, 126 Nisithe (In the Night), 76-7, 81 Puna, 30 Noailles, Comtesse de, 105-6 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1,2,4, 9, Quatre Poemes Hindous, 124 38,57,129,147,148 Nolde, Emile, 106, 107, 109 Rabindra Sangeet, 128,144 Racism, 142, 154 Ocampo, Victoria, 105, 108 Radha,149 Old Vic Theatre, London, 143 Radice, William, 104, 145, 147, 148 Oriental Studies, 143 Rajput miniatures, 112 Orientalism, 50,111,114,115 Rajshahi, 27 162 Index

Ramayana, 124 Satara,30 Raphael, 109 Schoenberg, Arnold, 131, 133 Ray, Satyajit, 143 School libraries (UK), 141 The Reconstruction of India, 4 Schopenhauer, Arthur, 123 The Religion of an Artist, 100 Schubert, Franz, 32, 123 Respighi, Ottorino, 130 Scott, Sir Walter, 33 Rhys, Ernest, 19,21 Scriabin,Alexande~125-6 Rig Veda, 124 Seattle, 16 Rite of Spring, 130 Sen, Keshub Chandra, 51, 52, 57,126 Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 81 Sen, Sukumar, 42, 43 Rolland, Romain, 62, 63, 108, 129 Sexism, 142 Ronald, Sir Landon, 127 Shakespeare, William, 35, 79 Rorschach tests, 112 Shelidah,42,99,145 Rothenstein Papers, 9 Shelley, P. B., 31 Rothenstein-Tagore Shepherd, Arthur, 129 correspondence, 19, 22 Shesher Kobita (Farewell my Friend), Rothenstein, Sir William, 1, 6, 7-8, 143 ~1~lL1~1~1~1~1~1~ Shishu (The Child), 146 21,38,124,125,126,128 Shishu Bolanath (The Forgetful Round Table Conference (London, Child), 146 1930),4 Simla, 31, 34 Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 86 Simplicissimus, 110 Roussel, Albert, 124 Sinclair, May, 131 Roy, Jamini, 115 Sita,124 Roy, Rammohun, 51, 126 Sohal, Naresh, 134 Royal Academy, 110 Solapur,30 The Royal Society of Arts (London), Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat), 29, 7 34, 148 Royal Society for India, Pakistan Songs of Love and Life, 127 and Ceylon (London), 20 South Africa, 52, 55 South Asian literature, 144, 149 Sacrifice, 127 South Asian Review, 20 see also Bisarjan Southall, Joseph, 106 Sadhana (The Realisation of Life), Soviet Union, 62, 106 14,15,29,59 Soyinka, Wole, 148 Sadhubhasa, 29, 35, 36, 41, 42 Spain, 63 St Xavier's School (Calcutta), 30 The Spectator (journal), 6, 15, 17 Sajadpur (Pabna district), 28 Spencer, Herbert, 33 Sakuntala, 122, 123, 127 Spengler, Oswald, 60 Samapti,143 Spenser, Edmund, 84 Sampatti-Samarpan (Riches in Sriniketan, 94, 96, 97, 100 Custody), 72-3 Stalin, Joseph, 62, 106 San Francisco, 17 Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 134 Sangoffer,133 Straight, Dorothy, Sanskrit, 27, 29, 35, 37, 39, 46, 122, see Elmhirst, Dorothy 124 Straight, Willard, 95 Santiniketan school, 9, 14, 16, 29, Stravinsky, Igor, 130, 133 34,55, 61, 83, 84, 85, 94, 95, 97, String Quartet after Four Poems of 98, 144 Tagore,133 Index 163

Strir Patra (A Wife's Letter), 152, 153 (Story Collection), 67; The Subramanyan, K. G., 103, 109 Gardener, 122, 130, 131, 132, Sun (New York newspaper), 14, 15 133; Ghare Biiire (Horne and Surrealism, 106, 107,116 the World), 112; Ghiiter Kathii Surul, 95, 96, 97 (The Landing Steps' Tale), Swadeshi movement, 54, 55, 112 68-9,70; Gitanjali, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, Swarnakumari, 30 9,12,13,14,15,16,19,57, Szymanowski, Karol, 130 122, 127, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134,144,146,147,148; Gorii, Tagore, Abandindranath, 107, 109, 56-7, 112, 154-5; Guptadhan 112, 113, 114 (Hidden Riches), 73; Tagore, Debendranath, 26, 27, 51, Hiisyakautuk, 32; lana Gana 52,53,54 Mana, (Mind of the People), Tagore, Dwakanath, 26, 27, 34, 51, 59, 154; livita 0 Mrita (Living 126 and Dead, 71-2; Kabuliwiillii, Tagore, Dwijendranath, 51, 53, 54 144; Kankiil (The Skeleton), estates, 27-8 73-4; Kari 0 Kamiil (Sharps Tagore, Gaganendranath, 107, 110 and Flats), 34; Kavi Kiihini Tagore, Jyotirindranath, 31, 34, 51 (Poet's Story), 52; Kshanikii Tagore, Rabindranath, (Ephemera), 13, 41, 42, 43, art exhibitions: 44; Kshudhita Piishiin (Hungry Birmingham, 106; Boston, 106; Stones), 77-8, 79, 80, 81; Berlin, 108; Paris, 105-6,108 Mahiimiiyii, 70-1; Miinasi (The birth centenary celebrations, 143 Imaginary Woman), 27, 34, letters, of, 21 41; Manbhanjan Life of Tag ore, (documentary film), (Appeasement), 151, 152; 143 Manihiirii (The Lost Jewels), musical compositions, 128, 144 77-8,81,143; Miistiirmasiiy Rothenstein, drawings of, 9 (The Tutor), 74-5, 76, 77; visit to London 1912, 5 Miitiil (The Drunkard), 44-6; visits to America, 9, 15, 16, 18, 59, My Boyhood Days, 144; My 108, 149 Reminiscences, 144; Naba writings: Barshii (New Rain), 148; The Artist, 115; Bhandu, 10; Nashtanir (The Broken Nest), Bhanaphul (Wild Flower), 52; 143, 151; Nationalism, 2, 15, Bhiiratvlisher Itihiisher Dhiirii 17, 18, 59-61, 128; Nisithe (In (Vision of India's History), the Night), 76-7, 81; Pather 58, 59; Bhiisar Kathii, 42; Shanchay (World of Travel), Bisarjan (Sacrifice), 127, 143; 9, 10,22; The Parrot's Caitiili, 29; Chokher Biili Training, 88; Personality, 149; (Binodini), 150, 151; Citrii Phanki (Deception), 147; The (lrridescent Beauty), 34, 122; Post Office, 130; Postmlistiir, The Crescent Moon, 90, 122, 143; The Religion of an Artist, 130, 146; Debatiir Griish 100; Siidhanii (The Realisation (Snatched by the Gods), 147; of Life), 14, 15, 29, 59; The Defeat of Prithiraj, 27; Sampiiti, 143; Sampatti­ Duriisii (Hope for the Samarphan (Riches in Unattainable), 69; Fruit­ Custody), 72-3; Shesher Gathering, 16; Galpa Guccha Kobitii (Farewell my Friend), 164 Index

143; Shishu (The Child), 146; Urdu, 69 Shishu Bolanath (The Urvasi,123 Forgetful Child), 146; Sonar Tari (The Golden Boat), 29, Vaishnava poetry, 11,27,149 34,148; Strir Patra (A Wife's Valmiki Pratibha, 34 Letter), 152, 153; Vdlmiki Varma, Raja Ravi, 109 Pratibhii, 34; Woman (a Vaughan Williams, Ralph, 126 lecture),149 Vedanta, 129 Tagore, Rathindranath, 55, 59, 96 Vedas, 61 Tagore,Satyendranath,29,30,51 Venice, 97 Tagore, Surendranath, 30 Vernacular Press Act (1878), 53 The Tagoreans (London), 1,3 Vidyapati, 27 Tampura, 127 Vienna, 131 Tariff acts (1886, 1894), 53 Visva-Bharati, 18,61-2,108 Tatlin, Vladimir, 106 Vivekananda, Swami, 126 Tattvabodhini Patrikii (Brahmo Vroubel,106 journal), 52 Tennyson, Lord Alfred, 31 Wagne~Richard, 123 Teen Kanya (Three Daughters), 143 Washington,21,134 Thackeray, William M., 33 Webern, Anton, 131, 133 Theatre des Mathurins, Paris, 130 Wells, H. G., 60 Thompson, Edward, J., 4, 21, 128 West Bengal, 83, 94 Through the Looking Glass, 33 Whitney, William, 95 Tilby, Michael, 22 Wilde, Oscar, 15 The Times (London), 2 Woman (a lecture), 149 The Times Literary Supplement, 17 Wordworth, William, 22, 83, 84, 86, Todorov, Tzvetan, 67-8, 69, 70, 72 87 Tower Hamlets, London, 144 World War 1,57,59,94, 103, 104, Toynbee, Arnold, 60 122, 130, 153 Translation, 19, 114, 143, 144 World WarII, 83 Tripathi, Amales, 53 Wright, Orville, 35 Turkey,98 Wright, Wilbur, 35

YMCA,95,100 UNESCO,94 Yeats, William Butler, 2, 5, 6, 11, 12, Unitarianism, 12, 14, 15 13,14,16,19,22,38,87,124,125 Upadhyay, Brahmobandab, SO, 54, Yokohama, 18 55,56 Young, Michael, 99, 100 Upanishads, 54, 63 Urbana, Illinois, 14, 128 Zemlinsky, Alexander von, 131,132