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Tagore quickly establishes why the postmaster is isolated in Ulapur: his upper-class, educated background sets him apart from the laborers in the village. He is unable to interact easily with them, since he considers himself superior to the indigo agents, and his surroundings (a “dark thatched hut” in the jungle) are jarringly rural and unfamiliar. It is clear that the postmaster feels out of place in rural Ulapur and cannot overcome his feeling of estrangement from his environment by connecting with other individuals.
At the beginning of the story, the postmaster is a “fish out of water”; by the end…