Woman question: Tagore’s attitude towards women

Abstract

This paper seeks to address the woman question in Tagore’s fiction. In Tagore’s earlier fiction we see naïve, child-like heroine. His later novels, written in the third literary epoch, revoke the pattern through intellectually enlightened, mature heroines with greater social authority. As daring fictions of female Building, these novels delineate young women from orthodox culture. They are caught in the cross-currents of tradition and maturity. They emerge from this ideological strife, educated, refined and wiser for the experience.