![]() ![]() ![]() It always has cultural aggression as necessary corollary. " 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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