Fakeer of Jungheera - Henry Derozio

The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

“The Fakeer of Jungheera” in 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.

“The Fakeer of Jungheera” is the masterpiece creation of Henry Derozio. The Fakeer of Jungheera as a Revolutionary Poem Satipratha Caste System Religion. 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.

Derozia was imagines to this pure and innocent woman “Nuleeni” became “Sati”. She loved Fakeer. Nuleeni was the widow and her husband was dying. At that time Nuleeni’s husband funeral pie and she thinks that her lover Fakeer came. She has thought to her husband but her eye in sun light of happiness to free this world.   

And thus comes the end of the tragic love story Nuleeni 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 partners on their own. We have the example s from our great books as Rukmani, Parvati, Draupadi, Kunti, Gandhari, Sanyagita. These women chose their husbands on their own. Our ancient culture was glorious but the invasions Foreign ruined our past culture.

 

 So we can say that in this poem my objective that to discuss the musicality in the poem, the impacts of the Romantics and some other unnoticed fetchers of the beautiful poem. How woman is center and society rigidity as became evil to Nuleeni’s life. And we found to morality, poverty, caste differences, religious, sati pratha etc.