Tagore's Concept of Humanism with Reference to Gora: A Study

Abstract

Today, the world finds itself in urgent need of the very insights which are the basic characteristics of Indian thought. India's insight of the spiritual nature of man and oneness of human existence and the underlying unity of the different systems of thought can provide the world today with that firm foundation on which alone a stable common wealth of nations may be built. Tagore became the voice of India's spiritual heritage for the world. His Gora propounds the eternal message of India to the world. Gora which is Tagore's notable achievement reflects all the diverse trends of the times, but it may be conjectured that the communal disharmony of the times when Gora was written had influenced Tagore greatly in portraying the age of the novel. That is, the mind of Rabindranath of the first decade of this century was projected into the times of Gora and he sought a solution to the fissiparous tendencies of his own times in the grand conception of Universal Humanism, which is the message of Gora.