This document provides an overview and analysis of the poem "The Fakeer of Jungheera" by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. It summarizes that the poem tells the story of a forbidden love between Nuleeni, an upper-caste Hindu woman, and a Muslim fakeer or mendicant. When Nuleeni's father discovers their relationship, he tries to stop it with force. A battle ensues between the fakeer and Nuleeni's family's army, in which the fakeer is killed, representing the death of revolution. The document also discusses how the poem criticized the practices of sati, caste discrimination, and religious intolerance in 19th century Bengal.

1. Hitesh Galthariya
Class :- M.A. SEM 1
Roll no :- 10
Topic :- The Fakeer of Jungheera story overview
Paper No :- 4
Enrollment No :- PG14101011
Year :- 2014-2015
Submitted :- S.B.Gardi English department
M.K. Bhavnagar University.
E-Mail :- hiteshgalthariya26@gmail.com

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. • 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

5. The Fakeer of Jungheera as a
Revolutionary Poem
Satipratha
Cast System
Religion

6. 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.

7. 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

8. • 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.

9. 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.