Gandhi and Tagore by Mukherji Gangeya

Author:Mukherji, Gangeya [Gangeya Mukherji]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

III

Nationalism

Ethics and responsibility

The attempt to evaluate the relationship of Gandhi and Tagore with the phenomenon of nationalism is hardly uncomplicated and defeats easy categorisation, naturally drawing attention as it must, to the porosity of the concept of nationalism. Although it is the received wisdom in many quarters that Tagore unlike Gandhi was opposed to nationalism, a close analysis may reveal why Gandhi chose to call him ‘an ardent nationalist’. Gandhi’s obituary of Tagore might be recalled relevantly in this regard:

In the death of Rabindranath Tagore, we have not only lost the greatest poet of the age, but an ardent nationalist who was also a humanitarian. There was hardly any public activity on which he has not left the impress of his powerful personality. In Santiniketan and Sriniketan, he has left a legacy to the whole nation, indeed to the whole world. May the noble soul rest in peace and may those in charge at Santiniketan prove worthy of the responsibility resting on their shoulders.1

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