Gora
By: Rabindranath Tagore ; translated by Radha Chakravarty.
Contributors: Chakravarty, Radha.
Series: Modern classics; Modern classics
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Delhi, India
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
ISBN-13: 9780143065838
Subjects: Bengali fiction -- Translations into English
Genres: Translations into English
Work titles: Gorā.
Description: "Gora unfolds against the vast, dynamic backdrop of Bengal under British rule, a divided society struggling to envisage an emerging nation. It is an epic saga of India’s nationalist awakening, viewed through the eyes of one young man, an orthodox Hindu who defines himself against the British colonialist culture and finds himself approaching his nationalist identity through the prism of organized religion."--
Notes: A novel.

Translated from Bengali.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiii-xxv).