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Shantiniketan: The Bolpur School of Rabindranath Tagore

W. W. Pearson · 1916

A 1916 account of Shantiniketan, the school founded by Tagore, written by W. W. Pearson and illustrated by Mukul Chandra Dey, including an introduction by Tagore himself.

Describes the school Tagore founded at Shantiniketan and includes his own introduction and an address he delivered.

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This 1916 book describes Shantiniketan, the school at Bolpur founded by Rabindranath Tagore. It was written by W. W. Pearson and illustrated by Mukul Chandra Dey. The book includes an introduction written by Tagore himself, as well as an address he gave to Japanese students in Tokyo.

Why it matters

Shantiniketan was central to Tagore's vision of education, blending Indian traditions with ideas drawn from his travels abroad. This book, written by a close associate, shows how his educational project was presented to English-speaking readers, and it preserves some of Tagore's own words from the period.

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  • Why might Tagore have asked a British associate to write about his school rather than writing the whole account himself?
  • What might the illustrations have been meant to show about life at Shantiniketan?
  • How does an account by a close associate differ from one by an outside observer?

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