This document analyzes feminism in the poem "The Fakeer of Jungheera" by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. It discusses the history of feminism in India in three phases and introduces the poet and the tragic love story depicted in the poem. The analysis focuses on how the poem reveals the tragic condition of widows in Indian culture through the character of Nuleeni, who is pressured to become a sati (widow immolation). As a marginalized subaltern woman, Nuleeni has no rights or freedom and is a victim of the oppressive sati practice and norms that saw widowhood as a fate worse than death. The document examines how the poem critiques the inferior status