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About Songs of Kabir
Songs of Kabir is an anthology of poems by Kabir, a 15th-century Indian spiritual master. It was translated from Hindi to English by Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel Prize-winning author and noted scholar. According to the introduction, by Evelyn Underhill who worked with Tagore on the book, the poems are from the Hindi text of Kshitimohan Sen, who gathered together a large collection of Kabir’s songs from both written and oral sources. Tagore had at his disposal an unpublished former translation of 116 songs, also extracted from Sen’s collection, made by Ajit Kumar Chakravarty. Songs of Kabir has been translated to Persian and Kurdish by Leila Farjami and Sayed Madeh Piryonesi, respectively. The language and format of the English version are archaic by today’s standards, but updated versions are available by Robert Bly and David Masterman.
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