ished Bengal scholar now India's Minister for Culture and
Scientific Research. The Society worked with a grant from
the Foundation to select, translate and prepare the material
for publication. All credit for the quality of this volume
goes to the Society and its distinguished body of translators
as well as the eminent men and women in India and the
U.S. and the U.K. whom the Society asked to help in the
final selection.

It is expected that should this volume reach as many
readers East and West as it is hoped, any royalties accruing
to the Society can be put to further study of Tagore as one
of the first great leaders of the new India now unfolding.

To this new India, Tagore has much to say. The prob-
lems to which he addressed himself--education, caste,
rural reconstruction, self-reliance and self-respect, the role
of tradition, the fruitful blending of the cultures and
thought of East and West, the status of women, civic con-
sciousness and self-government--these are problems with
which India struggles today and for which it must find
effective answers. In finding them, India should be able to
draw to the full upon the guidance, the insight, the wisdom
of all its great men, among whom this Bengali teacher
and reformer will always be numbered.

DOUGLAS ENSMENGER

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