TAGORE AND CHINA
Edited by Dr Kalidas Nag
Calcutta: Published by Federation of Indian Music and Dancing, and Calcutta Art Society
1945
pp. 63 + 15 plates
Illustrated paper-covered boards with cloth spine
Size 10.5 x 7 inches
A rare and curious publication dedicated to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek.
The book is a record of the speeches, messages and lectures delivered in Calcutta and China on the occasion of the presentation to the Chinese government of Rabindranath Tagore's portrait made by artist Ramendranath Chakravorty. The effort was sponsored by no less than 8 maharajas listed in the book.
The contents include an essay on Visva-Bharati Cheena-Bhabana by a Chinese scholar, Tagore and Sino-Indian Collaboration [Kalidas Nag], Tagore and China [Leonard K. Elmhirst], Tagore's letters to Japanese poet Noguchi, and Tagore in Far Eastern Press.
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