Hitesh GalthariyaClass :- M.A. SEM 1

Roll no :- 10

Topic :- The Fakeer of Jungheera story overview

Paper No :- 4Enrollment No :- PG14101011

Year :- 2014-2015

Submitted :- S.B.Gardi English department M.K. Bhavnagar University.

E-Mail :- hiteshgalthariya26@gmail.com

Introduction• The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem

by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. He was born on 18th April, 1809 in Kolkatta, West Bengal. He was a lecturer and poet. 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 kolkatta. He was a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate western Education and science among the young men of Bengal. He died of Cholera at the age of 22.

The Fakeer of Jungheera

• 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.

• Nuleeni, an upper caste Bengali Woman

• She loved Fakeer• Nuleeni’s father could not bear

the insult of his daughter• Inter-cast marriages• He fight alone but could not stand

the big army• He get injured and dies on the lap

of his beloved

The Fakeer of Jungheera as a Revolutionary Poem

Satipratha

Cast System

Religion

The Fakeer of Jungheera - A study in the Narrative Art:

• “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 of ‘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.

Quotation in the poem

• O! lovely is my native land• with all its skies of cloudless light;• But there’s heart, and there’s hand• More dear to me than sky most bright

• Fakeer snatches her from the midst of the group of mouning • upper cast Hindu at the funeral. They forget the society and also• forget their cast discrimination.

• When Nuleeni’s father and relatives' with the help of the Mughal• Army rescues her from the Fakeer a fierce battle goes on. The • Fakeer fights bravely but Fakeer has no choice to run away from• The battle field. He decides to fight back the army of Nuleeni’s• Father and fight with army but army kill Fakeer.

• Revolution dies in Infancy.

Conclusion

• The hardening of religious identifies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the deepening schism between various religious categories, especially Hindus and Muslims, rejected the entire syncretistic tradition that once flowed unhampered not only in Bengal but the entire British India exemplified in the cult of satya pir. The theme coupled with the use of imagery set in the Indian context imparts to it a unique Indian coloring. This poem amply testifies to the poetic genius of such young poet.