NAME : RADHA B. GHEVARIYA ROLL NO. : 24 ( PG14101013)

PAPER NO. : 4 : INDIAN WRITING IN ENAGLISH

MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY sm. S .B . Gardi Department of English

The Fakeer of Jungheera as a love story

* Henry Louis vivain Derozio was born on 18 April, 1809 and living only 22 years . * He was died on 1831.

INTRODUCTION

Henary louis vivain derozio

* Derozio was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu Collage , Kolkata , a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate western learning science among the young men of Bengal .

* Derozio wrote wonderful poems in English ‘ The Fakeer Of Jungheera’ is one of the most significance landmark in the history of patriotic poetry in India.

* In his days Bengal faced many problems of caste and creed.* In ‘ the fakeer of jungheera’ Derozio mixed the tantric , Hindu, mythological Christian , Islamic and Christian tradition.

THE FAKEER OF JUNGHEERA AS A LOVE STORY

* Fakeer and Nalini are star crossed lover like Romeo and Juliet.

* The poem ‘ the fakeer of Jugheera’ fakeer is the follower of Islam . * Nalini was married to a Brahmin. Her husband dies in an early youth.

* Nalini, the beloved of fakeer never her husband.

* In the day of Henry Derozio , Indian subcontinent was caught by many evils like

‘ Sati – Prtha’ , killing girl child by boiling the still born baby in the hot pot of milk etc…..

* Nalini belonged to a conservative hindu society in the 19th century . She doesn’t want to end her life behind a person whom she never loved.

* She escaped death but she starts a life of forbidden love though frightened by violent social norms.

“ O ! For the speed of swiftest hound At once into her arms to bound ! O ! For the speed of sunny beam , Or eagle’s wing , or airy dream , Or lightning glance of rapid eye From younger rocky height to fly”

*Nalini was brought to be pot where her husband is to be cremated.

* Fakeer fought that the people at funeral and took Naleeni left all the relations of behind and got united with her lover. * Fakeer with great courage snatched his beloved from the people of upper class. The upper class people had the authority in Bengal.

* Derozio sees love between a Hindu and a Muslim as transcending religions categories in colonial Bengal lays .

“ The sun lit steam in dimples breaks as when a child from slumber wakes, sweet smiling on its mother- there , like heavenly hope o’er mortal care”

* In the second stanza the poet introduce the popular belief that love for woman can lead a god fearing young person away from worship. The sad theme is established where a woman has to become sati.

* In the 5th stanza a group of people protected by soldiers is depicted. In the next one Hindu women

sing songs of sacrifice as naleeni is to die but later on we come to know that she runs away with fakeer .

* the end of the tragic love story naleeni dies with the person whom she loved .

* She becomes a free agent to choose her destiny . In ancient time , in our country women were allowed to choose their life partner on their own . EXAMPLE : Parvati , Rukmani , Kunti , Dropadi …….

* these women choose their husband on their own our ancient culture was glorious but the invasions foreign ruined our past culture.

CONCLUSION