Boyhood days /​ Rabindranath Tagore

Title

• Boyhood days / Rabindranath Tagore ; translated by Radha Chakravarty ; [foreword by Amartya Sen].

Uniform Title

• Chelebelā. English

Author

• Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Other Authors

• Chakravarty, Radha.

Published

• London : Hesperus, 2011, ©2007.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• xxvi, 82 pages ; 20 cm.

Subjects

• Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Childhood and youth.
• Authors, Bengali -- 19th century -- Biography.
• Authors, Bengali -- 20th century -- Biography.
• Calcutta (India) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Summary

• A fresh and idiomatic translation of the Nobel Laureate's enchanting memoir of his childhood, this volume forms an ideal introduction to the work of Rabindranath Tagore, one of India's most acclaimed poets and thinkers. --
• Rahindranath Tagore is famous for the school and university he founded in the Bengal countryside, but he spent much of his early childhood in Kolkata. Seen through the amused eyes of a precocious young boy, Tagore's memoir describes the joint family he grew up in, the city he played in, and the school he was sent to û much against his will. Boyhood Days is an exquisite portrait of both Tagore's childhood, and his country, India. at a turning point in its history. --Book Jacket.

Notes

• "This translation first published in Puffin by Penguin Books India 2007"--T.p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Translated from the Bengali.

Language

• English