Tagore
In Our Time
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Was It a Side Step for Tagore?
In 1910 he published poems in Mengegoli, which Chandrika has referred to as Gitanjali or Song-Off-Rins. Two years later he traveled to London with a broader collection under the same name. At that time he's still very pro-British, very pro, and a whole of his life he wanted East and West to intermingle and join together. He was certainly very open to British culture. But with the Shodeshi movement in the end he did turn against the movement. In 1907 there were some very serious riots, communal riots. There were these very serious riots. Tagore was appalled by the violence,. It was at this point that he
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