What happens when songs or lyric poems, composed at particular moments, become state anthems, performed again and again across generations? This essay addresses this question through the extraordinary figure of Rabindranath Tagore, who, despite his radically anti-statist vision of community, composed songs that became the celebrated national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Keywords:
Amit Chaudhuri
,Baul
,Rabindranath Tagore
,James Joyce
,‘Amar Sonar Bangla’
,‘Jana Gana Mana’
,anthemization
,anti-statism
