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    In the play Perseus the Deliverer, Sri Aurobindo connects masculinity with nationalism in order to revive the lost spirit of Indians and persuade them to fight against British colonizers. He portrays "India" as a motherland in need of deliverance from its shackles. Traditionally in India, militant masculinity had a limited space, but under the impact of British rule and ideas of Victorian masculinity, Aurobindo and other nationalists emphasized hyper-masculine warriorhood over traditional Brahminhood. The play shows Brahminical masculinity in crisis due to the new colonial social order that elevated warrior values.

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    Masculinity and Nationalism in Auro

    bindo's Perseus the Deliverer


    The IUP Journal of English Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 4,
    December 2013, pp. 47-56
    Posted: 11 Aug 2014
    Uttam Jadhav
    Satara College of Engineering and Management
    Tripti Karekatti
    Shivaji University
    Date Written: July 24, 2014

    Abstract

    Masculinity often gets attached


    to nationalism when nationalism is linked with the
    struggle for freedom. Nationalist leaders of most of
    the countries in the world equate manhood or
    masculinity with warriorhood to persuade masses to
    fight against the colonizers. Sri Aurobindo, a staunch
    follower of nationalism, advocates
    militant nationalism in the works produced
    during the early phase of his
    life. In Perseus theDeliverer, Aurobindo
    connects masculinity with nationalism to revive the lost
    spirit of the countrymen. He strongly connects India
    with mother and appeals to the sons of thecountry to
    deliver their motherland from the shackles
    of the colonizers. Aurobindo intertwined religion
    with nationalism and regarded it as a divine act. In pre-
    colonial social ordering of India, kshatriyahood or
    militant masculinity had a limited space.
    Under theimpact of the British
    (and Victorian masculinity), Aurobindo, like other
    nationalists (M M Dutt and Bankimchandra Chatterjee),
    preferred hyper-masculine Kshatriyahood to
    Brahminhood. This change in the colonial ordering of
    Indian social system is recorded in this play. Traditional
    Brahminical hegemonic masculinity is shown under
    crisis under theimpact of the new order
    of the day in which Kshatriyahood was gaining
    increasing importance.

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