Theme of Terrorism in Rabindranath Tagore's four Chapters

Abstract

The objective of this study on Tagore’sFour Chaptersis to analyze the writer’s elite political standpoint even though he remains opposed to the British rule in India. His elitism comes out as a discursive strategy as he dubs the armed rebellion against the British rule in India as terrorism. Terrorism, inFour Chapters,unfolds itself in the wirer’s use of underground revolutionary terrorist movement as a setting of the novel to foreground his politics of elitism which is underpinned by its criticism. Four Chaptersdenounces the pre-independence revolutionary terrorist movement, thereby participating in the Britishers’ criticism of the armed movement for India’s independence as terrorism.