A modern poet, writer, and thinker whose work drew on Upanishadic ideas and devotional sensibility to address distinctly modern questions about self, nation, and humanity.
Tagore belongs to this archive's "ideas and intellectual history" strand as much as to any single tradition. A poet, writer, and public thinker, he drew deeply on older sources while asking questions that were unmistakably modern — about selfhood, nationalism, and what a shared humanity might mean across difference.
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A body of philosophical texts that shifted attention from ritual toward questions about the self, reality, and liberation.
A path of loving devotion to the divine — one of the most influential and socially far-reaching currents in Indian religious thought.
A modern reformer and monk who reframed Vedanta philosophy for a global audience and connected classical ideas to contemporary social concerns.
A modern jurist, scholar, and social reformer known for constitutional work and for a public embrace of Buddhism late in life.