Gora II : Romaani by Rabindranath Tagore

"Gora II: Romaani" by Rabindranath Tagore is a novel set in 1880s Calcutta during the British Raj. The story follows Gora, a staunch Hindu Brahmin, and his best friend Binoy as they navigate two parallel love stories against a backdrop of religious conflict between Brahmo Samaj and Hinduism. Through philosophical debates on caste, colonialism, and tradition versus modernity, the narrative builds toward a revelation that shatters Gora's identity and forces him to reconsider everything he believed about religion and belonging. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
Translator Hollo, J. A. (Juho Aukusti), 1885-1967
Title Gora II : Romaani
Original Publication Finland: Otava, 1925.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gora_(novel)
Credits Anna Siren and Tapio Riikonen
Reading Level Reading ease score: 40.2 (College-level). Difficult to read.
Language Finnish
LoC Class PK: Language and Literatures: Indo-Iranian literatures
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Subject India -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Subject Bengali fiction -- Translations into Finnish
Subject Hinduism and social problems -- Fiction
Subject Social integration -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism -- Fiction
Subject West Bengal (India) -- History -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 70177
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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