M.K.BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Name :- Gohil Devangiba A.M.A. Semester-1Roll No. –16Paper No.-4 (Indian Writing In English)Topic :- Tagore as a NovelistSubmitted to.- Department Of English

Rbindranath Tagore

Born:- May 7,1861- Calcutta, Bengal presidenoy, British India.Occupation:- Poet, Short-story writer, song composer, Novelist, playwright, Essayist and Painter etc. language :-Bengali, English Nationality :- IndianEthnieity :- Bengali

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s

literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its “profoundly, sensitive, fresh and

beautiful verse.”, he became the first non-European to win the noble prize in literature

in 1913. His seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair and otherworldly dress earned him a prophet- like reputation

in the west. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the

west and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist

of modern India.

In 1913 he won the noble prize for literature

Ravindranath Tagore, popularly known as Rabithakur or Kbiguru, a great novelist. Tagore wrote eight novels and four novellas (short novels). With the translation of some his novels in the west. He became popularly known among them as well. His famous book Gitanjali is known worldwide.

NOVELS

GORA Gora raises controversial questions regarding the Indian identity. As with Ghare Baire, matters of self-identity, personal freedom and religion are developed in the context of a family story and love triangle. In it an Irish boy orphaned in the Sepoy mutiny is raised by Hindus as the titular gora “Whitey”. Ignorant of his foreign origins, he chastises Hindu religious back slider out of love for the indigenous Indians and solidarity with them against his hegemon compatriots. He falls for a Brahmo girlCompelling his worried foster father to reveal his lost past and cease his nativist zeal. As a “true dialectic” advancing “arguments for and against strict traditionalism”, it tackles the

Colonial conundrum by “portray the value of all positions within a particular frame not only syncretism, Not only liberal orthodoxy, but the extremes reactionary traditionalism he defends by an appeal to what humans share.” Among them Tagore highlights identity conceived of as drama.