Elaborate Recism through the Example of Gashiram kotwal

1. Elaborate Recism through the example of
Gashiram kotwal.
• Name : Bhaliya Hansa G.
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• Submitted to : S.B.Gard: Departmentof English.
Maharaja krishna kumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

2. Introduction
• Gashiram kotwal is a
Marathi play witten by
playwright vijay Tendulkar
in 1972 as a response to
the rise of a Local polical
Party, in Maharashtra.
• The play is a political satire,
written as historical drama.

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• It is based on the life of Nana phadnsvis one of the prominet
ministers in the court of Peshwa of Pune and Gashiram
Kotwal , the police chief of the city.
• It's theme is how men in power give rise to ideogies to serve
their purpose, and later destroy them when they become
useless.
• It was first performed on 16 December 1972 , by the
progressive Dramatica Association in Pune.

4. About play
• In the play Gashiram is main character.
• He comes to Pune .
• He is working with Lavani Dancer.
• Gashiram being a Bhrmin goes to connect alms at the
Peshwa's festivel the next day .
• However he is ill - treated there and is charged with
pick- pocketing and imprisoned for the office.

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• He then decide to take
revenge.
• So the play continues on
to reach the next part of
this play.
• Gashiram exchange his
own daughter to get the
post of kotwal of Pune
From Nana.

6. Nana gets Gauri and Gashiram gets
Power and position.

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• Having got the post he begins to enforce strict rules in the
city.
• He starts asking for permits for everything and starts
throwing people in jail for the smallest offences.
• In the meantime, Gashiram's daughter is impregnated by Nana,
and dies during childbirth.
• The situation goes out hand when a few people in the jail die
from suffocation.

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• The Brahmins then complain to the Peshwa.
• The Peshwa summons Nana who orders Gashiram to be
killed in the most inhumane way possible.

9. Suffering
• He suffers because he does not looks like Brahimins , and
that ' s why he suffers a lot.
• He humilities a lot the play
• He is good man. But situations makes him bad person.
• All Brahmins behaves with him very badly.
• He is not thief But becsuse of his look he becomes
the thief.

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• He tries to proves his self .But he fails . And he becomes
criminal. He does not do anything then he punished ,he is
angry and then he decides to take revenge.
• when he works with Lavani Dancer at that time he also
humiliates by Nana .
• For him this city is new. That's why he needs a support and
through his works he wants respect.
• But the does not get support and respct.

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• So his suffering converts into the revenge.
• And he becomes kotwal, and starts to take a revenge with
that people.
• And he becomes more strict, and he creates many rules and
those who break the rules he gives then punishment .
• At the end he also killed by people in very inhuman way.

12. Conclusion
• In the play struggle for identity and struggle for
belongingess is there.
• In the play is ignored and humiliaties by people.