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This essay is on The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore. It was written in 1915 following the Swadeshi or indigenous movement, an economic agitation advocating the usage of indigenous goods and the burning of foreign chiefly British textiles. The backcloth to the family drama in the novel is the terrorist violence of 1907 in India under British rule when a few British judges and officials had been executed.
The Home and the World was written in 1915 following the Swadeshi or indigenous movement, an economic agitation advocating the usage of indigenous goods and the burning of foreign chiefly British textiles. The backcloth to the family drama in the novel is the terrorist violence of 1907 in India under British rule when a few British judges and officials had been executed. The Swadeshi movement also mobilized religion and the Hindu goddess Kali was used as a sign in the call for renewed strength (shakti) against the British. This religious revivalism was repugnant to Tagore who believed in a synthesis of East and West rather than the xenophobia of the revivalists. His other chief objection to the movement was its motiveless destruction of property and the fact that the unfortunate could not afford to pay for handmade indigenous products as compared to the cheaper mill made goods from Britain. As his hero Nikhil admonishes rioters, “You may do as you please to work off your irritation to keep up your fanaticism. You are well off; you need not mind the cost. The poor do not want to stand in your way but you insist on their submitting to your compulsion”(132)
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