![]() ![]() He believed solely in the power of individual freedom (not national and especially not national in the Western sense) and opposed the pre-Gandhian Swadeshi Movement and even Gandhi himself (who supposedly also studied at UCL). Tagore’s philosophy encouraged a healthy relationship with one’s nation, neither denying one’s culture nor following it blindly. ![]() The book illustrates the battle Tagore had with himself, between the ideas of Western culture and revolution against the Western culture. ![]() ![]() The story is set in India and follows the contemporary nationalist movements, the emphasis given to the problems of the colonial powers in the market, the morality behind violence, and the unfathomable question of ‘What does it mean to me to be a part of a nation?’. The Home and the World is a 1916 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. Adversely to this, worth mentioning was his most influential critic, Gyorgy Lukacs, who considered him tedious and unimaginative and this novel as a mere one-sided propagandistic pamphlet. The Home and the World is the novel of the senses, and all of us agreed on his sensory and natural imagery being one of the best features of the novel, together with the novel’s interesting collaboration of the narrators, contentious philosophical discourse, and poetic language (similarities made between Tagore the writer and Tagore the painter). 2003, Permanent Black, Distributed by Orient Longman. His novel is often considered to be a part of the Indian literary canon, yet we tried to praise as well as criticise Tagore’s genius. Rabindranath Tagore's the home and the world, a critical companion. ![]()
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