In the two visions of consciousness offered by Tagore in The Home and the World, where do his sympathies lie?

Rabindranath Tagore, a worshipper of universal humanism,
depicts two different streams of Nationalism in his novel "The Home and the World". The
first strem is called Moderation that articulates essentially pure patriotism without
showing the aggressiveness of the Extremism that is the other stream. Both these streams
surely were built on the basis of ideals and the followers were motivated according to
their beliefs. In this novel Nikhil is a personification of moderate politics whereas
Sandip represents the aggressive Western-type nationalism throughout the
novel.

The author's sympathy lies obviously on the side of
Nikhil that resembles Tagore himself partly, if not altogether. The author viewed human
relationships from the perspective of the everliving values of love, trust and hope and
not in terms of dominance,violence and hatred.