Discuss bankim chandra's concept equality and as limitations
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Bankimchandra gave his country men a mantra as also the benefit of a vision. He showed the the way to achieve equality and oneness between there individual interest and the interest of the national community in which to which they belong. He also taught them the other element which is their sense of differentiation from other nations particularity the English, which by virtue of its being he ruler of India at that time was a source of great concern to Indians.
Bankimchandra held that an ancient nation with thousands of years of history, culture and heritage, Indians had legitimate reasons to be aggrieved about being dominated about English, but they should not waste their time hurling abuses on English instead they should be concerned with giving positive direction to their sense of national bitterness by engaging in constructiveness with the English in the spheres of life and try to be equal, if not better than them, in those spheres. So long as the sense of hostility to the English acted as a spur to Indians to bring about their self development as a nation, Bankimchandra considered it to be a positive achievement and wanted its continuation.
Bankimchandra made Satyananda declare on the battle field that he would keep on fighting till the country was completely free from the foreign hands. "I shall strengthen the mother by drenching the soil of my country with the enemy's blood". With that national morale, the lampooning of British characters was a means towards the end. Courage and fearlessness in the character of Shanti a disguised female member of santan army, presented in the contrast to the infirm character of Thomas, captain off the British forces that were sent to crush the revolt of you stay where it lived ?.I shall put a chain around your waist. ''We have plenty of banana's in our garden''
Not just in his novel and essays, But in his professional and personal life too Bankimchandra, despite his deputy magistrate under the British government was not afraid of taking on offending Britishers if occasion so demanded. Indeed Bankimchandra was not afraid of playing up the fact of differentiation of Indians and British. If that fact could serve the purpose of self respect and pride of Indians, He did it himself and through his example encouraged other Indians to do the same.
Bankimchandra problem however was that at times he was a little too aggressive in his pronouncement on nationalism and equality and that some of his characters in his novels occasionally made observations on other communities that were not in the best interest of the communal harmony.
Indeed Bankimchandra has been charged with communism and Muslim- baiting by some critics. His defense is that his views on the issues should not be derived from his novels.
Bankimchandra held that an ancient nation with thousands of years of history, culture and heritage, Indians had legitimate reasons to be aggrieved about being dominated about English, but they should not waste their time hurling abuses on English instead they should be concerned with giving positive direction to their sense of national bitterness by engaging in constructiveness with the English in the spheres of life and try to be equal, if not better than them, in those spheres. So long as the sense of hostility to the English acted as a spur to Indians to bring about their self development as a nation, Bankimchandra considered it to be a positive achievement and wanted its continuation.
Bankimchandra made Satyananda declare on the battle field that he would keep on fighting till the country was completely free from the foreign hands. "I shall strengthen the mother by drenching the soil of my country with the enemy's blood". With that national morale, the lampooning of British characters was a means towards the end. Courage and fearlessness in the character of Shanti a disguised female member of santan army, presented in the contrast to the infirm character of Thomas, captain off the British forces that were sent to crush the revolt of you stay where it lived ?.I shall put a chain around your waist. ''We have plenty of banana's in our garden''
Not just in his novel and essays, But in his professional and personal life too Bankimchandra, despite his deputy magistrate under the British government was not afraid of taking on offending Britishers if occasion so demanded. Indeed Bankimchandra was not afraid of playing up the fact of differentiation of Indians and British. If that fact could serve the purpose of self respect and pride of Indians, He did it himself and through his example encouraged other Indians to do the same.
Bankimchandra problem however was that at times he was a little too aggressive in his pronouncement on nationalism and equality and that some of his characters in his novels occasionally made observations on other communities that were not in the best interest of the communal harmony.
Indeed Bankimchandra has been charged with communism and Muslim- baiting by some critics. His defense is that his views on the issues should not be derived from his novels.
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