World-Making, “Mass” Poverty, and the Problem of Scale

Rabindranath Tagore, “Kalantar” (Change of times), in Rabindrarachanabali (The collected works of Rabindranath Tagore), vol. 13 (Government of West Bengal, 1968), 209–15. See also the discussion in my essay “From Civilization to Globalization: The ‘West’ as a Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity,” in Chakrabarty, The Crises of Civilization: Explorations in Global and Planetary Histories (Oxford University Press, 2018), 54–75.