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Stories from Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore · 1918

A 1918 collection of short stories written by Rabindranath Tagore, including The Postmaster and Cabuliwalla.

This is a published collection of Tagore's own short stories, showing his work as a fiction writer.

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This is a 1918 collection of short stories by Rabindranath Tagore, published in New York by The Macmillan Company. It includes well-known stories such as The Cabuliwalla and The Postmaster.

Why it matters

The preface explains the book was meant to help with teaching, noting that materials written for English schools did not suit Indian students. This shows how Tagore's fiction was shaped and shared for readers in a specific educational context, and how his stories crossed between Bengali and English audiences.

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  • Why might a publisher explain its reasons for making a book in the preface?
  • What do the story titles suggest about the kinds of people and lives Tagore wrote about?
  • How might translation change a story written originally in another language?

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