Ambivalence in Rejection of Patriarchy
While, Nehru saw that foreign domination should be banished with any ways, and this is known as destructive Swadeshi.
Nehru, in his Autobiography, has come out with some of the best lines ever written on rootlessness. They are: I am a stranger and an alien in the
West. I cannot be of it. But in my own country also, sometimes, I have an exiles feelings. Nevertheless, the all-absorbing work of fight- ing for
Indias freedom and of governing it as its first Prime Minister gave him a sense of purpose and belonging to an ideal. It also kept him inordinately
busy either to let him dwell publicly on that emotion or to dramatise it in his writings 1961: 136.
In relation to history, Tagore’s The Home and the World was written during the process to get freedom from the British in Swadeshi Movement.
According to the novel’s setting, the process of reaching the independence has not finished yet. Therefore, Tagore precisely drew his attention to the conflict
happening and the searching of identity which causes ambivalence character of the colonised people through the traditional idea versus modernity idea.