Rabindranath Tagore’s songs in the time of famine
[ad_1] In 1940s’ Bengal, famine and war displaced Rabindrasangeet (the corpus of songs composed by Rabindranath Tagore that synthesises lyrical poetry and music and occupies a central place within Bengali cultural life) from its performative location within the bhadralok domain, the English-educated, upper-caste, middle-class elite of colonial Bengal, whose authority was grounded in notions of … Read more