Rabindranath Tagore and Patrick Geddes: The Ecological Cultural Visionaries

Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan, India and Patrick Geddes at Scotland, France, had pioneered important link between quality of environment, quality of education and better ecolocial approach to living design, as an envio-bridge of East and West. School with essential nature study, rural studies, at-site training on public health welfare and humane habitation work, were harmonised with active local level participation towards environmental development and better living conditions with knowledge of ecological cultural appreciation, which were the mainstays of their innovative living environment design-culture.Rabindranath and Geddes were converging into envio-idea-action synthesis, at the significant time of inter-war years, immediately after their meeting at Kolkata. Their built environmental and ecologic-cultural visions had played for vital inspirations to site specific socio-environmental thesis work, 'Bengal Study' and 'Au Pays De Tagore' by Arthur Geddes during 1925-1928. This book unfolds the yet untold story of ecological initiatives by Tagore and Geddes.