Tagores Before Tagore

A Screenplay
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-948037-1
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India's first 'bourgeois', died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled by a series of upheavals. In each of these episodes, the chief player was his son--and Rabindranath Tagore's father--Debendranath Tagore. He was a social reformer who founded the Brahmo Dharma. Yet, despite his deeply spiritual nature, he dabbled in crass materialistic matters. Drawing upon Debendranath's opposing sentiments, Tagores Before Tagore narrates a historical period crucial to the making of indigenous modernity.

Scripted at the insistence of the famed filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh, this screenplay, based on true events, chronicles the tumultuous happenings that shook Jorasanko between September 1846 and June 1860, following Dwarakanath's sudden death. Tales of bankruptcy, litigations, deceit, and domestic squabbles abound; and through these tales emerges a rich cultural history of nineteenth-century Bengal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bandyopadhyay, Sibaji

Chakraborty, Maharghya

Weitere Mitwirkende

CHAKRABORTY, MAHARGHYA

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay writes poetry, plays, stories, novels, and film scripts in Bengali, and essays in Bengali and English. Earlier, he was a professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta and in the Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University.