UPSC 2023 GS-I · 10 marks · 150 words

What was the difference between Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore in their approach towards education and nationalism?

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Education: Gandhi's Nai Talim (craft-centred, vernacular, Wardha 1937) vs Tagore's Santiniketan (universal humanism, nature, arts)
Nationalism: Gandhi's mass movement + swaraj vs Tagore's critique of nationalism as 'organised selfishness' (Nationalism, 1917)
The Great Sentinel exchange (1921): Tagore's charkha scepticism, Gandhi's reply in Young India
Convergence honestly noted: both anti-colonial, both against mimicry of the West, mutual reverence (Mahatma/Gurudev naming)

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