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  1. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, The Mahatma and the Poet, National Book Trust, New Delhi 1997.

  2. The Religion of an Artist, 1936, repr. The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore vol. 3, New Delhi 1996, pp. 683-697.

  3. Tagore, The Religion of Man, George Allen and Unwin, London 1931.

  4. I shall repeat the dates, so that the chronology will be easy to follow, and also note where a publication is referring back to a pre-Gandhi period.

  5. Tagore, Nationalism, Macmillan, London 1917, subsection ‘Nationalism in India’

  6. Gandhi in Young India, 10 Jan 1929, repr R. Iyer, The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Oxford University Press 1986–7, vol.2, no. 265, p. 391; Gandhi on non-violent police force, 10 Aug 1940, Harijan, 1 Sep 1940, repr. Iyer, The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Ahmedabad 1990, Delhi 1993, no. 166, pp. 264–5.

  7. Discussion with Maurice Frydman, Harijan, Jan 28, 1939, repr. in R. Iyer, Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 3, p. 529. Interview with Nirmal Kumar Bose, published later in The Hindustan Times, Oct 17, 1935, Collected Works vol. 59, 316–320, repr. in R.Iyer, Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 3, p. 600. Letter to Nehru, Oct 5 1945, repr. in Iyer Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi,, vol. 1, p. 286.

  8. ‘Content of Independence’ Harijan, July 21 1946, Collected Works, vol. 91, p. 326.

  9. Gandhi, Speech to Gandhi Seva Sangh, 22 Feb 1940, repr. R. Iyer, Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, vol. 1, pp. 415-43.

  10. Cicero On Duties 1. 112.

  11. Richard Sorabji, Opening Doors, The Untold Story of Cornelia Sorabji, I.B. Tauris, London and Penguin India Delhi, 2010, pp. 343-7.

  12. In this, I agree with Bindu Puri, The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth, Springer, Delhi 2015, pp. 162-6.

  13. Gandhi, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), in Gujarati 1909, in the English edition of Anthony J. Parel, Cambridge 1997, pp. 96-8.

  14. Tagore’s letter to poet Buddhadeb Bose, quoted in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation, Penguin Viking, Delhi 2011, p. 53 and note 110.

  15. Bindu Puri, The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth, Springer, Delhi 2015, Ch. 3 on Gandhi, p. 108.

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Sorabji, R. Tagore in Debate with Gandhi: Freedom as Creativity. SOPHIA 55, 553–562 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-016-0553-x

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