Religion versus nationalism theme of gora and the home and the world
1. Topic :- Religion versus nationalism Theme of Gora
and The Home and the World
Name :- Kishan Jadav
Semester :- 3
Class :- M.A Part 2
Paper-201: Indian English Literature – Pre-Independence
RollNo :-10
Email Id :- jadavkishan55555@gmail.com
Submitted :- SMT S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
2. About author
Birth - - 7th May , 1861
Place of Birth - Kolkata
Father's Name - Debendranath Tagore
Mother's Name -Sarada Devi
Grandfather - Dwarkanath Tagore
1 School - Oriental Seminary
2nd School -Normal School
3rd School - Bengal Academy
4th School - St. Xavier's School
Occupation - Poet , Dramatist , Writer , Painter
Awarded Title - Gurudev
Awards - Noble Prize for Literature
Death-7th August , 1941
3. Famous Poetry
• Although Tagore wrote successfully in all literary genres, he was of all a
poet. Among his fifty and odd volumes of poetry, some of them are:
•ManAasi (1890) [The Ideal One]
•Sonar Tari (1894) [The Golden Boat]
•Gitanjali (1910) [Song Offerings]
•Gitimalya (1914) [Wreath of Songs]
•Balaka (1916) [A Flight of Swans]
4. •Tagore's Major Novels
•Gora (1910)
•Ghare Baire, (1916) [The Home and the World]
Kabuliwallah (The Fruitseller from Kabul), 1961
Tagore's Major Drama
•Rja (1910) [The King of the Dark Chambers]
•Indupluur (1912) [The Post Office]
•Acludaapten (1912) [The Immovable]
•Matabou (1922) [The Waterfall)
5. Gora
• Gora (Bengali: গ োরো)
novel,
• set in Calcutta (now
Kolkata),
• in the 1880s during
the British Raj.
6. Themes of The Novel
politics and religion
liberation,
universalism,
brotherhood,
gender,
feminism,
caste, class,
tradition versus modernity, urban elite versus
rural peasants,
colonial rule, nationalism and the Brahmo Samaj
7. The Home and the World
•original Bengali, ঘরে বাইরে,
Ghôre Baire or Ghare Baire,
At home and outside“
•Genre - Autobiographical novel
•Publication date - 1916
• two of the main characters, Nikhil
and Sandip
8. Theme of the Novel
1.Nationalism
2.Tradition Vs. Modernism
3.Sanip and Nikhil
4.Illusions
5.Truth
6.Love and union
7.The role of Women
8.Religion versus nationalism
9. Religion versus Nationalism
"spiritual view”
"recognize the truth of restraint”
"all at once my heart was full with the thought that my Eternal
Love was steadfastly rial things”
“retimes the our nationalism”
10. Continue…..
• There are Hindu-Muslim, Hindu-Christian, and Muslim-
Christian conflicts.
• Two poles (apart ?) – Hinduism and the Brahmo Samaj in the
colonial setting.
• “Representation of the National Self- Novelistic Portrayal of a
New Cultural Identity in Gora” .
11. Work Citation
Escholarship.Org, 2021,
https://escholarship.org/content/qt3fd5r9tk/qt3fd5r9tk.pdf?t=n0io2f.
Indian Ruminations. 2021. Tagore’s Idea of Nation and Nationalism in Gora
– Nakul Kundra, Amritsar – Indian Ruminations. [online] Available at:
http://www.indianruminations.com/review/tagores-idea-of-nation-and-
nationalism-in-gora-nakul-kundra-amritsar/ [Accessed 14 October 2021].
Tagore, Rabindranath. "The Home And The World By Rabindranath
Tagore". Project Gutenberg, 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7166.
"The Home And The World Summary". Www.Bookrags.Com, 2021,
http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-home-and-the-world-penguin-
clas/themes.html#gsc.tab=0.
