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NATIONALISM
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NATIONALISM
BY SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE
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1918
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First Edition 1917
Reprinted 1918 (twice)
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Nationalism in the West | 1 |
| Nationalism in Japan | 47 |
| Nationalism in India | 95 |
| The Sunset of the Century | 131 |
NATIONALISM IN THE WEST
NATIONALISM IN THE WEST
Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties itencounters. These have offered us problems and claimed their solutionsfrom us, the penalty of non-fulfilment being death or degradation.
These difficulties have been different in different peoples of theearth, and in the manner of our overcoming them lies our distinction.
The Scythians of the earlier period of Asiatic history had to strug