This book, having selections from Rabindranath Tagore’s essays, public addresses and letters, identifies the various stages in the evolution of Tagore’s religious thought beginning from the 1880s.

Focusing on the critique of contemporary Hinduism, conceptions of God and religion, and ethical activism, it examines the originality of Tagore’s religious and philosophic conceptions. It also situates his religious life and thought in his time and places him within the trends in contemporary Hindu religious and philosophical thought.