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Politics of Gender and Race: Representations and their location within the colonial space in A Passage to India and Chokher Bali (A Grain of Sand)

Focused on the politics of gender and race and rooted in the specific social and material realities of colonial India, this paper unravels the historical repertoire to evince colonial politics, and interrogates representations of women-"the Indian Woman" as well as "the White Woman" and their subjections to the gender ideology of that time. Here I will follow the historiographic tradition, delving into history specifically to reveal colonial gender contradictions. I plan to follow these histories not along the textual path in innocence, but rather to construct the argument along the reality of culture. It is not so much a representation of an ulterior reality as it is a reconstruction of reality itself. Many strands weave the complex social labyrinth of colonial India: (1) the problem of intermeshing of racial and gendered categories, miscegenation of white man and Indian wife or bibi; (2) the prurience and prejudice arising out of the construct of the sensual Indian woman due to her mode of dress, i.e., the sari and its subsequent transculturation; (3) the preoccupation with the purdah, perceived as an impenetrable barrier; (4) "the White Woman", being subjected to ageold patriarchal notions of female subservience and about white female racial segregation; and (5) the rise of "Women's Question", which marked the beginning of a resistance against subordination on the part of women. As I complete this prolegomenon, I should make two additional points. First, I chose to scan Tagore's Chokher Bali; in this work, Tagore appears to comment on the issue of social reform of the Hindu widow and how, despite the legislation permitting remarriage, the issue was conveniently ignored. Throughout the novel, Tagore thus affirms