Nationalism

Beschrijving van het boek

"Nationalism" is a book compiled from a series of lectures by Rabindranath Tagore. The book is dedicated to the Nationalist Movement in India, World War I, and the industrial revolution of the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Tagore viewed nationalism as an alien component of the Indian culture that was instead implanted by the Western political thought that belonged to the Indian political tradition. He believed that nationalism leads to greed, maximization of profit, an inhuman application of science, and war. Therefore, he praised countries that didn't involve in WWI and pertained to their high culture.