The Fakeer Of
Jungheera
Derozio was an indian poet and
assianst headmaster of hindu collage
Kolkata a radical thinker and the first indian educators to disseminate western
learning science among the young men of Bengal.
Henry Derozio wrote wonderful poems
in english ‘the Fakeer of Jungheera’ the poem is one of the most significant
landmark in the history of patriotic poetry in india. The poem write in this
days Bengal faced many problems of caste and creed. In the poem ‘ the Fakeer of
Jungheera’ Derozio mixed the tantric , hindu, mythological, Islamic and
Christian tradition. Henry Derozio got the idea about writing the poem of
spiritual love from baital pachisi. As the story goes, if king vikram remains
steadfast in his love for his queen , he can resurrect her and once more both
can find happiness together.
Here, we can also compare the
fakeer and naleeni are star crossed lovers like Romeo and Juliet. The poem ‘
The Fakeer of Jungheera’ fakeer is the followers of Islam. Fakeer means saint a
person who has renounced the world but here fakeer loves a lady naleeni . who
is married and also an upper caste female . naleeni was married to a Brahmin
man. Her husband dies in an early youth also naleeni the beloved of fakeer
never loved her husband.
In the day of henry Derozio ,
indian subcontinent was caught by many evils like ‘sati-partha’ killing girl
child by boiling the still born baby in the hot pot of milk etc,…….. naleeni
belonged to a conservative hindu society in the 19th century naleeni
was pure and beautiful she doesn’t want to end her life behind a person whom
she never loved. Naleeni was brought to be the spot where her husband is to be
cremated.
Naleeni loved the fakeer and society
blamed her. So woman were singing song praising sati they sung of going to die
on the funeral pure of her husband and escape with the bandit fakeer to his in
Jungheera to a life from death. Naleeni escaped death but she stars a life of
forbidden love though frightened by
violent social norms. She believes that her lover’s corrage and her unfailing
love will finally make them victorious.
Henry Derozio sees love between a
hindu and Muslim as transcending religious categories in colonial Bengal lays.
The end of the tragic love story
naleeni dies with the person whom she loved. She became a free agent to choose
her destiny . in ancient time in our country women were allowed to choose their
life partner on their own. The secular and universal ideas that Derozio exposes
in his poetry do not go well with the separatist and divisionary politics of
modern india.
These are some of the revisionist ,
consequences of modernity however the model of social life that emerged in the
early 19th century in response to modernity in india now take as
beyond modernity into the information age.
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