They regarded them as ignorant and backward.ĭuring this period, the whole of society was split into the Brahmos and the Hindus. However, as mentioned in the book, some Brahmos were strongly biased against the hindus. Most of them had faith that the British would revolutionize Indian society and free it from the bonds of various social evils. They believed that they were ushering in era of change, both intellectual and administrative.
The Brahmo Samaj, founded by Raja Rammohan Roy, believed in rational and liberal thinking, and was free of all the orthodox practices that traditional hinduism believed in. Soon Binoy makes the acquaintance of his Brahmo neighbours, Paresh Babu and his family. To Gora, society was above everything else, and all that he did, he did out of regard for society. Tagore speaks through Gora, as if trying to justify, that though Hinduism was riddled by countless orthodox practices and superstitions, people had faith in it out of respect for society. His idea was to unite all people under the common grounds of Hinduism, since according to him, hinduism belonged to the country, and being a hindu gave him a sense of belongingness to his land. However, when the British harshly mocked Hindu culture, Gora seemed to realize that first he must focus on driving the British from India and only then could he focus on a particular religion. Gora was originally not a hindu, but a follower of the Brahmo Samaj. Gora is an orthodox Hindu and strictly follows all customs and beliefs of the Hindus. The name Gora is short for Gourmohan, and he had earned this name because of his extremely fair complexion. He is contrasted against his closest friend Gora. Binoy is an orphaned boy, rational, highly intelligent, modest yet bright, like the ordinary run of educated Bengali gentlemen. Words of the two protagonists, Binoy and Gora.
In the novel Gora, Tagore brings forth his ideas through the Written in an almost poetic language, Gora raises controversial questions about the Indian identity. Rather than the material struggles faced by man, Gora tries to portray the inner struggles he faces in the endeavour to achieve freedom. Woven with bursts of philosophy and arguments, this novel is directed to a person’s struggle as he pursues Truth. Apart from bringing to light many problems prevailing in the society, the book deals with the inner conflict of man as he strives to distinguish between right and wrong. At first, the reader may assume that it is another book about the oppression of the Indians by the British. Gora is a novel written by Rabindranath Tagore set in the 19th century India, when it was under the clutches of the British.
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