Diasporic Cosmopolitanism: Rabindranath Tagore and the South Asian Diaspora

Since his death in 1941, Rabindranath Tagore has remained an enduring figure in the postcolonial diasporic imagination. The presence of the poet in South Asian diasporic literary sources reflects how some of the modern-day diaspora's most prominent writers find resonance in Tagore's unique brand of cosmopolitan anticolonialism, which allows them to retain a connection to their ancestral Indian origins while also looking outwards for inspiration from the other countries that they find themselves in.