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Gitanjali (Song Offerings): a Bibliometric Study


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1 Institute of Education, Visva Bharati, West Bengal- 731 235, India
2 New Delhi 110019, India
     

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Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received Nobel Prize for Gitanjali (Songs Offerings) in 1913 which is a collection of poems from different kavyagrantha (book of poems). The present paper is an attempt to study the growth of poems of Gitanjali, their lengths, places and dates of writings, use of words, rank frequency of different words and to find out whether Gitanjali follows any bibliometric law. The study also tries to find justification of the title Gitanjali with the help of bibliometric techniques. It is observed from the study that many poems of Gitanjali are songs, written long before the publication and submission of Gitanjali for Nobel Prize .The rank-frequency distribution of words in Gitanjali do not follow Zipf‟s law but justiies the title of the kavyagrantha.

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Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Bengali Poems, Bengali Songs, Swaravitan, Bibliometric Study
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Partha Pratim Ray
Institute of Education, Visva Bharati, West Bengal- 731 235
India

B. K. Sen
New Delhi 110019
India


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  • Mukhopadhyay (Prabhatkumar). Rabindrajibani O Rabindrasahitya - prabashak. Visva-Bharati Granthan Vibhaga; Vol. 2; 1994. Calcutta; p227-228.

  • Tagore (Rabindranath). Gitanjali: song offerings. The India Society; London; 1912, p80.

  • Letter to Kshitimohan Sen, London, 20 June. Kept in Rabindra Bhavana.

  • Robinson (Andrew). The art of Rabindranath Tagore. Rupa & Co; Calcutta, 1989, p33.

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  • Tagore (Rabindranath). Gitanjali: songs offerings. Macmillan Publishing Company, London, 1913, p81.

  • Gitanjali: songs offerings. Rabindra-Bhavana, Santiniketan, 1999, p274.

  • Gitabitan.1380 (B S). Visva-Bharati Granthan Vibhaga, Calcutta, p1034.

  • Swarabitan. 60 Vols. Visva-Bharati Granthan Vibhaga, Calcutta, 1982.

  • Gitimalya published in the year 1914 after publication of English Gitanjali, but poems were written before and included in Gitanjali from manuscript.

  • Tagore (Rabindranath). Gitanjali: songs offerings. Rabindra-Bhavana, Santiniketan, 1999, p237.

  • Mallick (B P); Nara (T); Bhattacharaya (N). Gitanjali: linguistic statistical analysis. Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, 1994, p3-97.

  • ibid. p123.

  • Tagore (Rabindranath). Chithipatra.Vol.5.1400 (B.S.). Visva-Bharati Granthan Vibhaga, Calcutta, p33.


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Authors

Partha Pratim Ray
Institute of Education, Visva Bharati, West Bengal- 731 235, India
B. K. Sen
New Delhi 110019, India

Abstract


Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) received Nobel Prize for Gitanjali (Songs Offerings) in 1913 which is a collection of poems from different kavyagrantha (book of poems). The present paper is an attempt to study the growth of poems of Gitanjali, their lengths, places and dates of writings, use of words, rank frequency of different words and to find out whether Gitanjali follows any bibliometric law. The study also tries to find justification of the title Gitanjali with the help of bibliometric techniques. It is observed from the study that many poems of Gitanjali are songs, written long before the publication and submission of Gitanjali for Nobel Prize .The rank-frequency distribution of words in Gitanjali do not follow Zipf‟s law but justiies the title of the kavyagrantha.

Keywords


Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali, Bengali Poems, Bengali Songs, Swaravitan, Bibliometric Study

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