ANTH2601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Gitanjali, Swadeshi Movement, Spiritualism

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTH2601
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Week 11: tagore and tan yun shan: redefining sino-indian relations. India and china in the early 20th century. Uprisings and revolutionary protests in china after the opium wars. 1st asian nobel laureate for gitanjali in 1913. Well known to the chinese intellectuals of the time. Invoking historical connections, linking buddhist ideals of peace and brotherhood. Tagore"s ideas on nationalism and internationalism-complex and evolving-in swadeshi samaj. Controversial lectures against nationalism in japan in 1916. Tagore"s ideals went beyond the nation-state boundaries. he felt nationalism could never be the solution for humiliation of defeated peoples. His thoughts remained much ahead of his time-resonates with the contemporary explorations and emerging discourse on inter-asian interactions. One of the greatest events in the annals of sino-indian cultural intercourse in spite of its insufficient recognition of this among many indian and chinese intellectuals. (tan chung, Tagore went to china at the invitation of liang chi chao (1873-1929), president of jiangxueshe (beijing lecture association).