This Presentation is a part of my acedemic presentation.This presentation Indian Writing in English.M.A semester-1 Department of English ,MKBU and it is submitted to M.A.Department of English Pro Dr,Dlip Barad sir.
1. Name :- Khamal Krishna R.
Roll No:- 22
Enrollment No: 20170014
Class:- M.A-Part -1
Course:- The Indian Writing in English
Presentation Topic:- Nuleeni as Subaltern
women.
Batch Year:- 2016-2018
Submitted to:- Department of English Maharaja
krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.
2. Introduction Of The Poet
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Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
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Born Aprill 18,1809, Calcutta
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Died December 26, 1831(of cholera)
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Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu college in
Calcutta
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He was radical thinker and social reformer and earliest
Indian poet.
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To My native Land,The Fakeer of Jangheera.
3. Meaning of the word 'Subaltern'
● A subaltern is a primarily British military term for a Junior Officer.
● Literally meaning ''Subordinat'',subaltern is used to describe
commisioned officers below the rank of captain and generally
comprises the various grades of lieutenant.
● Subaltern: In India women, dailts,rural,tribal,immigrant laborers are
part of subaltern; within Punjab,India,the most oppressed are the
rural folk,and illiterate women.
4. Roll of Religion and society
● In Poem The Fakeer of Jangheera Derozio has
observed Indian society. In effect of religion is very
powerful.Religion has played major roll in shaping
Indian society.
● Nuleeni is a young wodow with rosy dreams of
life ,she has her individual ideas but religion used as
a powerful weapon to condition in nuleeni's mind.
5. Nuleeni a marginalized woman in society.
A beautiful Brahmin widow.
She loves fakeer.
No right to love and No right to live.
Victim of sati system(pratha)
Nuleeni as Subaltern
6. ●Place of women in Indian society.
●Inferior to man
● No personal right.
● Dependent.
●Treated as a thing (property)
>Live life with society's way of living life.
Women's Place in Indian Society
7. Practice of ''Sati'' Nuleeni
● In this poem women
sing song to convince
Nuleeni become sati,the
practice of sati is
celebrated like festival.
● These women speak as
subaltern.
● They are singing a songs
of the festival of death.
8. The term ''Sati'' is a sanskrit words meaning ''Virtuous''
women''. However,it is often used to refer to women who
are faithful wives, who self-immolate themselves on the
funeral pyre of her husband''
.
●A woman oppressed by asphyxiating traditions.
●Rebel against society.
●Second time become widow,become victim
of orthodox Indian society.
●Physically live mentally died.
