fakeer of jungheera
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Name:Gohil Umaba BClass: M.A part 1
Paper: 4(Indian writing in English)Topic: the fakeer of jungheera plot
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Submitted by: maharaja Krishna kumarsinhji Bhavnagar university
Department of English
The fakeer of jungheera is long poem by henry derozio he was born in 18th April 1809 in kolkatta,west Bengal
In the fakeer of jungheera derozio mixed the tantric,hindu,mythological,islamic and Christian tradition.
Fakeer and nuleeni are two star crossed lovers like Romeo and juliet.fakeer is follower of Islam.
He loves a lady nulleni who is married and also a upper cast female .nulleni was married to a Brahmin. her husband died in an early youth.
During this time Indians are suffered by many evils like ‘sati prtha’ and killing girl child by boiling the baby in the hot pot of milk etc..
The fakeer of jungheera is long poem by henry derozio he was born in 18th April 1809 in kolkatta,west Bengal
In the fakeer of jungheera derozio mixed the tantric,hindu,mythological,islamic and Christian tradition.
Fakeer and nuleeni are two star crossed lovers like Romeo and juliet.fakeer is follower of Islam.
He loves a lady nulleni who is married and also a upper cast female .nulleni was married to a Brahmin. her husband died in an early youth.
During this time Indians are suffered by many evils like ‘sati prtha’ and killing girl child by boiling the baby in the hot pot of milk etc..
Nulleni was brought to the spot where her husband is to be cremated .women were singing a songs of sati. She not want to died behind her husband
Nulleni was lost in the thoughts of fakeer. On the funeral of her husband both fakeer and
nulleni are escape . In the intense bond of love they both forget
their caste discrimination .they challenged the man made norms of the society.
The father of beautiful widow nulleni determines to avenge fakeer .he goes to shah Shiva the king of his time. He requests him to send his army with him to avenge the fakeer.
He did not even think of his daughters happiness or love.
Now fakeer has no choice if he runs away from the battlefield he would be caught and punished .he decided to fight back the army of nulleni’s father.
Nulleni prefers to die to gather with someone she loves than with her husband whom she does not .now is free here to die with fakeer.
Both are risked his life to be united but they were doomed to be part . Nulleni decided to died behind him.
This is impossible and bold story of love affair between Hindu upper class widow and a Muslim lower class fakeer reflected and criticized the evils of Indian society.
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