Here is my Presentation on Paper no.-4 Indian writing in English on The Fakeer of Jungheera as Revolutionary poem. In this Poem Henry Derozio try to raise voice against Satipratha, Religion and Caste System
1. Indian Writing in English
Name. Asha Dhedhi
Roll no. 02
Enrollment no. 2069108420200010
Email ID. ashadhedhi1806@gmail.com
Topic. The Fakeer of Jungheera as
Revolutionary Poem
Submitted to. Department of English
(MKBU)
2. 2
● Indian poet
● Assistance headmaster
of Hindu college,
Calcutta
● His most work focused
on
“Voice against society”
“Shows rigidity in
culture and tradition”
Henry Louise Derozio
3. 3
The Fakeer of Jungheera as
Revolutionary Poem
Satipratha
Caste
System
Religion
4. 4
Revolution against Satipratha
● Black spot on Indian History
● Sati-The word derived from the name of
Goddess who self immolated
● “Chaste Woman”
● Widow burning or Religiously motivated
suicide
● Satipratha first proved in Nepal 464 A.D.
and in India 510 A.D.
6. 6
Nuleeni as Sati Roop Kanwar
● Widow of her Husband
● Victim of Satipratha
● Nuleeni as Subaltern
● No right to Love, Live
● Treated as an Object
● Widow of Maal singh
Shekhavat
● 18 year old Sati
● A case of 1987
● Have no voice
7. 7
“Devoted woman here must Die”
(Page no. 175)
● Women were forced to become Sati
● Celebrated as Festival
● Songs of Women
“joys are immortal,
Hopes never decay
Onwards from glory
to glory they fly”
10. 10
Caste System in Fakeer of Jungheera
● Nuleeni is from Upper
caste Brahmin Family
● Fakeer is from
Unidentified Muslim
sect
● Inter Caste marriage
● Honour Killing
● Hindu-Muslim
negotiation
11. 11
The Fakeer of Jungheera Bajirao Mastani
● Love story of
Brahmin widow and
Muslim Fakeer
● Fakeer is Killed by
Nuleeni’s family for
their Hunour
● Love story of Muslim
giral Mastani and
Mughal King Bajirao
peshva
● Mastani is
imprisoned
12. Castcism in Article 15
12
● Brahmin as
Supreme cast
● Lower cast is
totally ignored
14. 14
Happy! Thrice happy thus early to
leave
Earth and its sorrow, for heaven and
its bliss
Who that hath known it at parting
would grieve
Quitting a world so disastrous as this?
(Page no. 12)
15. References
● Dr.Jyoti syal, 2018,
Derozio:A champion of womenrights in
the Fakeer of Jungheera
International journal of current Research
● Michaels Axel,2004
Hinduism:Past and present
Princeton University Press (P.P.149-153)