Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Vishva paper 4
1. Vishva Gajjar
Roll No. 45
Email ID : vishvagajjar27@gmail.com
Smt. S.B.Gardi Department of English,
Bhavnagar University
Paper No. 4 INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH – PRE-INDEPENDENCE
Feminism in ‘Fakeer of Jungheera’
2. Feminism :
The advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the
equality of the sexes.
3. Feminism in India
The history of Feminism in India can be divided in three phases.
1. First Phase began in the mid-18th century.
2. The Second Phase while Indian independence movement.
3. The Third Phase – post independence of Indian.
4. Introduction of Poet :
• Name : Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
• Born : April 18,1809 Kolkata
• Died : December 26, 1831 (by cholera)
• He was Anglo-Indian.
• He was thinker and social reformer.
Works :
• To My Native Land
• The Fakeer of Jungheera
• Going into Darkness.
• A Walk by Moonlight.
• etc.
5. Introduction of Poem :
Tragic love story
Three main characters :
Nuleeni
Nuleeni’s Husband
Fakeer
6. Feminism in Poem
“ Joys are immortal, hopes never decay,
Onwards from glory to glory they fly !”
In this lines we can see that women are singing songs to
convience Nuleeni to become ‘Sati’ and also tells her that after
becoming ‘Sati’ She will be happy for ever. During ‘Sati Pratha’
people beat drums loudly so that the screams of a woman can not
be heard. The practice of ‘Sati’ is glorified. People worship the
woman as Goddess if they become ‘Sati’.
7. Feminism in Poem
“ Happy ! Thrice happy thus early to leave
Earth and its sorrows, for haven and its bliss
who that hath known it at parting would grieve
Quitting a world so disastrous as this ?”
These lines reveal the tragic condition of widow in Indian
Culture. For them death is better option because society
would torture them daily and their life would be like hell.
Society would not allowed a widow to remarry. They promise
to Nuleeni that she would become queen if she would be
‘Sati’.
8. Women’s situation in Indian Society
Inferior to man
No personal rights
Dependent
No freedom given
Has to live life with the rules of society
9. Nuleeni as Subaltern
Marginalized woman in society
No right to love and live
A beautiful Brahmin Widow
Loves Fakeer
Victim of ‘Sati Pratha’