The document provides an analysis of the poem "The Fakeer of Jungheera" by Henry Derozio. It discusses how the poem critiques the practice of sati in contemporary Indian society through the forbidden love story of Nuleeni, a Hindu widow, and a Muslim fakeer. Derozio mixed traditions like Hindu mythology, Islamic practices, and Christian imagery to create a romantic atmosphere and highlight social issues like sati, child marriage, and the mistreatment of women in 19th century India. The analysis also notes how Derozio's secular and universal ideas in his poetry bring modern Indian politics beyond modernity through his central work.

1.  Presented by : Sanjay A. Dharaiya
 Paper no.4 ( Indian Writing in English )
 Topic : The Fakeer of Jungheera As a Love Story.
 Course : M.A. Sem -1
 Email id : Dharaiy9@gmail.com
 Submitted to : S.B. Gardi Department Of English MKB
University.

2.  He is considered to be an academic and
educator. During his time Literary
Movement of Bengal Renaissance was
undergoing.
 He was an Indian poet and assistant head
principal at the Hindu College of Kolkata.
 He was a radical thinker and one of the
first Indian educators to disseminate
western Education and science among the
young men of Bengal.
 His influence lived on among his former
students. Who came to be knows as young
Bengal and many of whom became
prominent in social reform, law and
journalism.
1809-1831

3.  The protagonist of the Fakeer poem
is a robber Fakeer or a mendicant,
who belongs to some unidentified
Muslim sect, while the heroine, the
widow Nuleeni, comes from an upper
cast Bengali Hindu family.
 Derozio's uses Christian imagery,
such as heaven and juxtaposes it
against the Hindu tradition of Sati,
Muslim prayers and tantric tale of
raja vikramjit and Baital to create
acquaint, romantic atmosphere.

4.  " The Fakeer Of Jungheera " is the masterpiece creation
of Henry Derozio. In his poems, he deals with the
theme of patriotism, of love, of nature, of death.
 The central theme of " The Fakeer of Jungheera" is the
ignoble and in human practice o 'sati' in the
contemporary orthodox indian society.
 This rotten system had been in vogue in the indian
society for centuries, and Derozio vehemently
protested the 'sati' system both in his social life and in
the classroom as a teacher at the Hindu college,
Calcutta. He wrote this poem to highlight the issue.

5.  Derozio wrote many wonderful poems in English
before his untimely death of which "The Fakeer of
Jangheera" was one of the most important.
 His poems are regarded as an important landmark in
the history of patriotic poetry in India
 In his days Bengal faced many problems of caste and
creed.
 In ‘The Fakeer of Jungheera ‘ Derozio mixed the tantric,
Hindu, mythological, Islamic and Christian tradition.

6.  The poem ' The Fakeer of Jungheera ' Fakeer is the follower
of Islam.
 Nuleeni, the beloved of Fakeer never loved her husband.
 In the day of Henry Derozio, Indian subcontinent was
caught by many evils like ‘Sati- pratha ’, killing girl child by
boiling the still born baby in the hot pot of milk etc.
 Nuleeni belonged to a conservative Hindu society in the
nineteenth century.
 She doesn't want to end her life behind a person whom she
never loved.

8.  Nuleeni was brought to be the spot where her husband is to be
cremated
 She escaped death but she starts a life of forbidden love though
frightened by violent social norms.
 She believes that her lover’s courage and her unfailing love will
finally, make them victorious.
“O! For the speed of swiftest hound
At once into her arms to bound!
O! for the speed of sunny beam,
Or eagle’s wing, or airy dream,
Or lightning glance of rapid eye
From younger rocky height to fly.”

9.  Derozio opens the first canto with the wind wandering gently
like young spirits.
“The sun lit steam in dimples breaks,
As when a child from slumber wakes,
Sweet smiling on its mother-there,
Like heavenly hope o’er mortal care”
 Second stanza the sad theme is established where a woman
has to become sati.

10.  The secular and universal ideas that Derozio exposes in his
poetry do not go well with the separatist and divisional politics
of modern India.
 These are some of the revisionist consequences of modernity.
 However, the ‘modes of social life that emerged in the early
nineteenth century in response to modernity in India now take
us beyond modernity’ into the information age.
 If India must shine it must do so within its own traditions and
Derozio occupies a central place in it. The poet through the
impossible and bold story of love-affairs between Hindu upper
class widow and a Muslim lower class.
 Fakeer reflected and criticized the evils of Indian society.