Humanism and Nationalism in Tagore’s Novels (Hardbound - 2002)

The book aims at an appraisal of R.N. Tagore’s novels in English translations. It highlights his thematic concerns and novelistic technique. The book also provides a comprehensive and authentic account of his literary genius and his vision of the human predicament. It contains a faithful profile of his age marked by profound convulsions in individual and collective consciousness.

This specific study of Tagore’s novels based on the themes of humanism and nationalism has shown his position and achievement in the domain of Indian fiction. The book studies Tagore’s art of writing novels for promotion of human value and national integration.

Making an attempt to define and interpret Humanism and Nationalism, and their application as themes of novels by the great Indo-Anglian novelists and R.N. Tagore, the book provides a critique of R.N. Tagore’s nine novels so far translated into English. It concludes with a brief critique on

R.N. Tagore’s final vision of life and man.

Dr. Kh. Kunjo Singh, born on 1-3-1952, B.A. (English Hons.) from D.M. College, Imphal, Gauhati University, Assam (1972); M.A. (English) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (1976); Ph.D. from Manipur University (1993) on Indo-Anglian Political Fiction; D.Litt. from Gauhati University (1999), is an Associate Professor of English at Manipur University, Canchipur, Manipur and formerly Reader in English at Government Nambol L. Sanoi College, Nambol, Manipur.

At present, working as the President of the North East India Forum for English Studies (NEIFES), the first of its kind in the North Eastern Region of India with its permanent office at Guwahati, Assam and Vice-President of the same for more than 5 years, Dr. Kh. Kunjo Singh has contributed research papers regularly to Dialogue (NEIFES Journal), Points of View (Ghaziabad), Manipur Today (Imphal), Gyan-Vigyan Samiti Journal (Guwahati), Manipur University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Canchipur), MALA Journal (Imphal), Bhabani-Bhattacharya: Some Points of View edited by Dr. K.K. Sharma, M/s K.K. Publications, Ghaziabad and a host of reputed journals throughout the country.

Besides, he is the author of more than 5 novels published in Manipuri, 2 volumes of English Word Book and a number of children’s books on different subjects and themes. He has published several series of travelogues and short-stories in Manipuri and has translated many popular modern Manipuri hit songs, film-scripts and radio plays into English.

Stepping beyond literary confines, Dr. Singh has been working as the Vice-President of the United Nations Association, Manipur (UNAM), the first of its kind in the North-East India and has been participating in a large number of academic-UGC sponsored seminars and conferences as well as non-academic and political seminars and conferences.