1) Gashiram Kotwal is a 1972 Marathi play by Vijay Tendulkar that satirizes politics in Maharashtra through the story of Gashiram, a police chief in Pune. 2) Gashiram suffers humiliation and mistreatment as a lower-caste man in Pune. To gain power and revenge, he trades his daughter to Nana Phadnis in exchange for becoming kotwal of Pune. 3) As kotwal, Gashiram enforces strict and arbitrary rules, imprisoning many people. However, his actions eventually lead to his downfall and brutal death as the Peshwa has him killed for overreach of power. The play

1. Elaborate Recism through the example of
Gashiram kotwal.
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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.