• Upasana Saxena

The paper explores Rabindranath Tagore engagement with the wave of feminist approach in his writings in the nineteenth century Bengal. Known distinctly for his collection of poems, stories, prose, novels, Tagore keep the women always in the forefront in his novels to convey the feminism. His pen became the weapon for expressing his belief for the upliftment of women or empowering women through his different writings. His writing generally focuses on women’s equality, liberalization, freedom, dignity and rights. In his writings for the women empowerment he attempted to contribute to the social world regarding his thought of “Where the mind is without fear and world is held high, where the knowledge is free and world has not been broken into fragments.” This paper focuses on female protagonists by content analyzing the different portrayal of women by scripting their lives. Tagore portray the merciless society has obstructed the thoughts of the women to convey their thoughts and feelings. The methodology used in the study is content analysis on the type of literature Tagore provided in his study about the women in his different stories and novel as for example “Choker Bali”, portrayal of a young women and her desire towards her life, “Kabuliwaala”, a connection of a little girl with a refugee hawker, “Strir Patra”, portrayal of a women who put up her voice in regards for her self- identification. Like this the study deals with the different portrayal of women and comparing those nineteenth century women with that of today’s women and their status in today’s scenario and the changes which took place till today.

Rabindranah Tagore, women, portrayal, renaissance, ninteeth century, self identification, equality, liberalization

" Scripting of women: In the writing of Rabindranath Tagore ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no.469-475, October-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810677.pdf

" Scripting of women: In the writing of Rabindranath Tagore ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 10, page no. pp469-475, October-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1810677.pdf