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Political Philosophy of Rabindranath

1929

And since the advent of domocracy politics has ceased to mean statecraft because new ideas of the relation of the ruler and the ruled have taken possession of people's minds and these ideas when clearly formulated attain the character of general principles and are called ideals in the modern world. [...] A period of stagnation set in and convulsions in the social structure quickly followed completely disintegrthe land of peace to the Mohammedan the land of service to those who truly followed the teaching of the Sermon on the Mown —and they all came and became :Indians. [...] I am persuaded that it is simply and solely due to the distribution of the people into castes that India did not lapse into a state of barbarism and that she preserved and perfected the arts and 9"POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF RABINDRANATH ting the home races which way the beginning of the decadence of India. [...] It was upon this remote portion of humanity childlike in its manners with the wisdom of the old that the nations of the West burst in." What is a nation ? The question that arises now is : what is a nation ? The cult of the nation is professionlism of the people. [...] This passion is a mere force which has in it the principle of separation of coflict." The logic of egotism on the part of the West is standing in the way of perfect meeting.
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Pages
239
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.144324
Segment Pages Author Actions
Cover
i-v Sochin Sen view
Foreword
i-viii Sochin Sen view
Chapter I Interpretation of the East and West
1-32 Sochin Sen view
Chapter II Anti-State Attitude
33-60 Sochin Sen view
Chapter III A Critic of British Government
61-85 Sochin Sen view
Chapter IV Hindu-Moslem Question
86-97 Sochin Sen view
Chapter V Ideals of Education
98-124 Sochin Sen view
Chapter VI Poet of Patriotism
125-152 Sochin Sen view
Chapter VII Land Labour and Capital
153-184 Sochin Sen view
Chapter VIII Relation of Man and Woman
185-214 Sochin Sen view
Chapter IX Swaraj and Charka
215-224 Sochin Sen view
Bibliography
225-226 Sochin Sen view

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