A Poet’s Ashram - Rabindranath Tagore’s Experimental Community in Colonial India

The remarkably creative life of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) has long been an area of scholarly enquiry. Yet, surprisingly, his role as the founder of an experimental ashram community remains unexplored. A Poet’s Ashram retrieves the idea of his ashram through an exploration of his writings on the institutions he built.