Somdatta Mandal, ed. and trans. <i>Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family</i>
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Abstract
The book under review, Wanderlust: Travels of the Tagore Family, does a commendable work on two fronts: translation and travel writing -both important for academic and non-academic readers alike.Translation is a highly significant literary activity, the multiple facets of which include promoting intercultural understanding besides giving vent to creativity.While translation studies have picked up in recent years, travel literature still happens to be one of the lesser explored areas.In this sense, Somdatta Mandal's efforts compel attention for it focuses on one of the most significant travelogues of our times -the journeys undertaken by various members of the Tagore family.She has undertaken the laborious and massive job of searching original Bengali writings, translating them and re-arranging the material commendably well.Rabindranath Tagore was an inveterate traveller and a prolific travel writer in English and Bengali, and both are a known fact.However, to learn that the Tagore family, from Dwarkanath to Sumitendranath (including women of the family) undertook journeys and wrote of their experiences with childlike awe and wonder, and that too with simple, unassuming clarity, comes as a pleasant surprise.Starting from Dwarkanath Tagore's two trips to Europe in 1842 and 1845 to Sumitendranath Tagore's travels to "Kasi-Allahabad-Lucknow" in 1940s, the travelogues cover roughly a period of one hundred years; and, significantly, of the nineteen entries included in this volume eight are by women of the family.Dwarkanath Tagore was the first male member to travel abroad, while his granddaughter, Soudamini Devi (1847Devi ( -1920)), the eldest daughter of Debendranath Tagore, was the first female member to travel and write about her experiences.Granted that these women mostly went on pilgrimages (except the few who went abroad with their husbands), but to be allowed to venture out of the house in the mid-nineteenth century speaks of the family's open-minded approach.The Tagore family -Rabindranath's grandfather, father, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews -were indeed, globe trotters, travelling across England and other European countries, the USA and of course a large part of India.We learn of the Punjab of that time, Kashmir, Solapur, Bombay (Maharashtra), the present day Himachal (Dalhousie) and the South and many more places.The wide spectrum offered by these women and the richness of their images, contents and treatment reveal colourful perceptions.For example, Soudamini Devi's pilgrimages to Vizigapattam and Mathura-Vrindavan areas are unique in the sense that even ordinary matters acquire aura in her hands and
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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