Locating Similarities in Indian and Irish Nationalism through Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Abstract

Nationalism has always been a thought-provoking topic of discussion. Both Indian literature and Irish literature have numerous texts that trace the idea of nationalism. This paper intends to locate similarities in the understanding of nationalism in India and Ireland, through the craftsmanship of Rabindranath Tagore and James Joyce