CONTENTS: Previously Published Articles, Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. The Self, the Individual and the Question of Modernity, 2. Rabindranath's Postcolonialism: A Vision of Decolonization and a Modernist Idealism, 3. Always Towards: Human Development and Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore, 4. Home and the World: Women and Nationalism in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore, 5. A Transformational Pedagogy: Reflections on Rabindranath's Ideas and Practices of Decolonization, 6. Beyond the Binaries: Notes on Karl Marx's and Rabindranath Tagore's Ideas on Human ACITIES AND Alienation, Bibliography.The essays in this collection examine the social and political thought of acclaimed poet and writer Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). His prose writings, including correspondence, are explored here through a Marxist perspective in order to assess their relevance for current critical and political needs.