{"title":"Uma Das Gupta","description":"\u003cp\u003eUma Das Gupta\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"oxford-india-tagore-oxford-indian-collection","title":"Oxford India Tagore  Oxford Indian Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44785355260083,"sku":"9780195677072","price":1160.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/9780195677072.jpg?v=1762797333"},{"product_id":"tagore-an-illustrated-life","title":"Tagore: An Illustrated Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44785360994483,"sku":"9780198076001","price":200.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/9780198076001.jpg?v=1762797370"},{"product_id":"a-history-of-sriniketan-rabindranath-tagores-pioneering-work-in-rural-reconstruction-h-b","title":"A History Of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagores Pioneering Work In Rural Reconstruction (H.B)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe idea of doing something to redeem the neglected village came to Rabindranath Tagore when he first went to live in his family’s agricultural estates in East Bengal during the 1890s. As manager of those estates, he got his first exposure to the countryside and its stark miseries. The experience played a seminal role in turning him into a man of action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe present book, A History of Sriniketan, explores Tagore’s attempt to inspire the deprived sections of rural society to self-reliance and to make them economically independent by setting up a centre for rural reconstruction called Sriniketan as a wing of his Visva-Bharati International University at Santiniketan in 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe idea was pioneering in its times as an endeavour for improving the condition of the peasantry by using scientific methods of cultivation through laboratory experiments where the expert and the peasant collectively participated. To achieve all this, he sent his eldest son, Rathindranath Tagore, to the USA, for studying agriculture. He also invited Leonard Knight Elmhirst, the internationally known agriculturist, to come and stay in Sriniketan for a year. There was a parallel effort to revive the traditional rural arts and crafts as a means of creativity and economic recovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTagore’s independent thinking gave him the courage of conviction to work alone with his ideas of rural reconstruction outside the Nationalist Movement. 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Nestled in the twin campuses of Santiniketan and Sriniketan in rural southern Bengal, about a hundred miles northwest of Calcutta, this institution became the heart of Tagore’s existence.\u003cbr\u003e\nComplementing the author’s previous work, A History of Sriniketan: Rabindranath Tagore’s Pioneering Work in Rural Reconstruction (2022, Niyogi Books), this volume delves into Tagore’s visionary approach to education. His educational model was groundbreaking from launching an experimental school in 1901 to founding an international university and an institute of rural reconstruction in 1921-1922. It was designed to transcend borders, promoting a shared global humanity rather than conforming to the rigid framework of nation-states.\u003cbr\u003e\nTagore’s dedication to this cause reflected his ideals of an inclusive and non-parochial nationalism, emphasizing self-respect as the key to India’s progress. He never viewed the modest scale of his endeavour as a limitation; rather, he saw it as a necessary step towards setting a precedent for the nation. His vision was never just theoretical—it was always deeply rooted in action.\u003cbr\u003e\nAbout the Author: Historian and Tagore biographer Uma Das Gupta was educated at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Oxford. She taught at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, and at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. She was Director of the United States Educational Foundation for Eastern India and was a participant of the UNESCO Project titled ‘For A Reconciled Universal: Rabindranath Tagore, Pablo Neruda, Aime Cesaire’. 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