Come along to The Outhouse, (12A Broughton Street Lane, Edinburgh), for 7pm start on Thursday 26th October 2026. There will be some food provided on the table, and you are invited to bring along an item of food to put on the table and take away what is left at the end. Prof Bashabi Fraser will be talking about 'Rabindranath Tagore and the Scottish Interchange; A Transformative Encounter'. After a break there will be a second talk of the evening ‘Justice, Utilitarianism and Education as a Right' by Alex Dunedin All the events are free and informal. A relaxed atmosphere where anyone can do a talk or share an activity and people can come along and listen to. All are welcome to publish on the website; there are no editors, only authors. Rabindranath Tagore and the Scottish Interchange: A Transformative Encounter Bullet points the talk: * The Bengal Renaissance * Macaulay’s Minute on Education * Scottish Educators in Bengal * Rural Reconstruction and Cooperatives * An International University in Bengal * The Scotland-India Interchange and Legacy A few paragraphs on the subject: This study will move between Scotland and India, referring to some key figures who form the links in the chain that has fostered a living history of exchange in a colonial encounter which was transformative, assessed here in a postcolonial reappraisal. The stalwarts that will be brought in are David Hare, Revd Alexander Duff, Sir Daniel Hamiltion, Sir Patrick Geddes and Dr Arthur Geddes, Scottish luminaries who part of the Bengal Renaissance which was led by Raja Rammohan Roy and the Tagore family. In this exploration of the Tagore-Scottish Interchange, we will go back in time, to the period of the Bengal Renaissance, starting with the period when Rabindranath’s grandfather, Prince Dwarkanath Tagore (1794-1846) whose knowledge of Persian, Arabic, English and French signified an ability to bridge the East-West dichotomy. He was a keen supporter of his close associate of Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833

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