![]() ![]() " Colonisation can never be merely viewed as the unleashing of process of economic exploitation. He emerged unsure, ambivalent and emancipated from the traumatic encounter. Writing in " Rabindranath Tagore and the problem of Self Esteem in Colonial India ", Lakshmi Subramanian remarks that " the reality of the colonial subjugation with its racist overtones, its shatter cultural appeal and the impact it produced on the western educated middle-class Indian resulted in the fracturing of his psyche. Gora is a novel steeped in the colonial experience that highlights the resultant crisis of personal identity. ![]() Within the novel is embedded a conflict between nationalism and nationalistic consciousness that continues to arrest the Bengali intelligentsia even a hundred and six years after its production. " Gora " is situated at that point of time in history where the emergence of the nationalistic " self " and its problematizing in the form of a split occurs simultaneously. It is an allegory of Indian Nationalism, partaking in larger measures Tagore's own view of it whereby religious worship is replaced by the worship of India. ![]() ![]() Gora (1909-10) is Rabindranath Tagore's longest novel and is considered one of the most important novels ever written in British India. ![]()
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