This symposium, following up on our 2022 symposium on ‘Global Literary Modernities and Modernisms’ arrives in the wake of the centennial year of 1922 when T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and James Joyce’s Ulysses ushered in a new era of ‘High Modernism’ in European literary history. What the Eurocentric discussions of 1922 modernism often forget is that Rabindranath Tagore’s book of genre-bending texts, Lipika, was published in the same year, as was his play, ‘Muktodhara’ (‘The Waterfall’).
