![]() ![]() The conception of this novel’s central character is largely modelled on the issue of an ‘ideal’ national self. To study the issue in the Indian colonial contexts I have chosen Rabindranath Tagore’s novel Gora as a case-study. This paper is about such an act of fashionning selves and its after-effects. But, the codification of the dominant strand of the nationalist consciousness in overt masculinist terms often have strange reverberations. ![]() ![]() In reaction to this, the nationalist consciousness of the colonized people often tries to replicate the macho virility of the colonial masters in an act of fashioning a ‘nationalist self.’ In the context of Indian colonial history we see development in similar lines. The masculinist self of the colonizer labels the self of the colonized as ‘effeminate’. This often results in a total loss or at least maiming of the sense of ‘self’ for the colonized people. Any colonial rule involves a systematic and ruthless attack on the culture and heritage of the colonized race. ![]()
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