All Outputs (46)

Relocating Colonial Women in Resistance: An Interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh and Chaturanga (2021)
Journal Article
Krishnapriya, T. K., Rani, P., & Fraser, B. (2021). Relocating Colonial Women in Resistance: An Interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh and Chaturanga. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 13(3), https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v13n3.38

The Colonial Bengal of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a place of contradictions. For instance, despite certain evident advancements in the resolution of the women’s question, some of the emancipatory attempts of the period marked a rather... Read More about Relocating Colonial Women in Resistance: An Interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s Nastanirh and Chaturanga.

Design of an Electrically Powered Rickshaw, for Use in India (2019)
Journal Article
Cochrane, C., Muneer, T., & Fraser, B. (2019). Design of an Electrically Powered Rickshaw, for Use in India. Energies, 12(17), 3346. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12173346

The main aim of this article is to present research findings related to the design of an electric rickshaw for use in Kolkata, India, identifying weaknesses in the current cycle rickshaw, developing a design solution to address problems found, and ex... Read More about Design of an Electrically Powered Rickshaw, for Use in India.

Afterword: An Indian in Edinburgh (2019)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2019). Afterword: An Indian in Edinburgh. In R. Jeffery (Ed.), India In Edinburgh: 1750s to the Present (216-227). Routledge

A Sojourner's Calcutta: Through the Colonial Lens (2018)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2018). A Sojourner's Calcutta: Through the Colonial Lens. In B. Fraser, T. Mukherjee, & A. Sen (Eds.), Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (30-47). Edinburgh, Scotland: Luath Press

No abstract available.

Thaali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry (2017)
Book
Fraser, B. (2017). B. Fraser, & A. Riach (Eds.). Thaali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry. Edinburgh: Luath Press

Thali Katori brings together two words that celebrate difference, acknowledge the need for the sensitive appreciation of difference, the virtues of complementarity and the nourishment that poetry and the arts, as vitally as savoury and sweet dishes,... Read More about Thaali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish South Asian Poetry.

Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B., & Riach, A. (2017). Introduction. In Thali Katori: An Anthology of Scottish and South Asian Poetry (17-27). Edinburgh: Luath Press

Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction. In B. Fraser, T. Mukherjee, & A. Sen (Eds.), Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: The Continuum of Ideas (3-29). Luath Press

The historical relationship between Scotland and India is a relatively unexplored part of colonial history. This project seeks to re-examine the interchange of ideas initiated in the 18th century by the Scottish Enlightenment, and the ways in which t... Read More about Scottish Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance: An Introduction.

The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism. In K. Tuteja, & K. Chakraborty (Eds.), Tagore and Nationalism (245-256). BMC. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-3696-2_16

Rabindranath’s stand on the ideas of nation and nationalism has become a part of a national debate that often left him isolated and misunderstood in his own country. This paper explores the India Rabindranath Tagore envisioned at the end of her journ... Read More about The Spirit of India: An Exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s and Mahatma Gandhi’s Ideas on Nationalism.

Rabindranath Tagore: An Introduction to their Ideas on Education and the Environment (2017)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2017). Rabindranath Tagore: An Introduction to their Ideas on Education and the Environment. In B. Fraser, T. Mukherjee, & A. Sen (Eds.), Confluence of Minds: The Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes Reader on Education and Environment (1-13). Luath Press

No abstract available.

The Homing Bird (2017)
Book
Fraser, B. (2017). The Homing Bird. Devonshire, UK: Indigo Dreams Publishing

No abstract available.

The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2016). The Man of Faith: Tagore on Social Inclusion. In B. Knotkova-Capkova (Ed.), Tagore on Discriminations: Representing the Unrepresented. (1)

No abstract available.

The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry (2016)
Book Chapter
Community in Modern Scottish Literature (214-234). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004317451_013

This chapter examines the poetry of Scottish South Asians, the "New Scots" who bring a whole history of displacement, dislocation and relocation with them, as their memory of the "elsewhere" enters their writing. Their voices are significant as they... Read More about The New Scots: Migration and Diaspora in Scottish South Asian Poetry.

Rabindranath Tagore's Global Vision. (2015)
Journal Article
Fraser, B. (2015). Rabindranath Tagore's Global Vision. Literature compass, 12, 161-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12231

This ‘Introduction’ to a special issue on Rabindranath Tagore affirms his position as an Indian Renaissance man and assesses his stature as a leading world writer, philosopher, educationist, environmentalist, rural reconstructionist, activist and pra... Read More about Rabindranath Tagore's Global Vision..

Letters to my Mother and other Mothers. (2015)
Book
Fraser, B. (2015). Letters to my Mother and other Mothers. Luath Press Ltd

A book of original poems.

Tagore on the Creative Principle. (2015)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2015). Tagore on the Creative Principle. In I. Chaudhuri (Ed.), Tagore's Vision of the Contemporary World. Haranand Publications/ICCR

Poems. (2015)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2015). Poems. In Six Seasons Review. The University Press Limited (UPL)

Indian Writing in English. (2014)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2014). Indian Writing in English. In Encyclopeadia. Sahitya Akad

Introduction to "Images of Life: Creative and Other Forms of Writing" (2014)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2014). Introduction to "Images of Life: Creative and Other Forms of Writing". In S. Mallik (Ed.), Images of Life: Creative and Other Forms of Writing. The Book World

An emigre at home. (2014)
Book Chapter
Fraser, B. (2014). An emigre at home. In S. Mallik (Ed.), Images of Life: Creative and other Forms of Writing. The Book World

The Homing Bird (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Fraser, B. (2014). The Homing Bird. [The Statesman (Kolkata)]