Name :- Khamal Krishna R.

Roll No:- 22 Enrollment No: 20170014 Class:- M.A-Part -1

Course:- The Indian Writing in English

Presentation Topic:- Nuleeni as Subaltern women.Batch Year:- 2016-2018 Submitted to:- Department of English Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University.

Introduction Of The Poet

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio

Born Aprill 18,1809, Calcutta

Died December 26, 1831(of cholera)

Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu college in Calcutta

He was radical thinker and social reformer and earliest Indian poet.

To My native Land,The Fakeer of Jangheera.

Meaning of the word 'Subaltern'

A subaltern is a primarily British military term for a Junior Officer.

Literally meaning ''Subordinat'',subaltern is used to describe commisioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant.

Subaltern: In India women, dailts,rural,tribal,immigrant laborers are part of subaltern; within Punjab,India,the most oppressed are the rural folk,and illiterate women.

Roll of Religion and society

In Poem The Fakeer of Jangheera Derozio has observed Indian society. In effect of religion is very powerful.Religion has played major roll in shaping Indian society.

Nuleeni is a young wodow with rosy dreams of life ,she has her individual ideas but religion used as a powerful weapon to condition in nuleeni's mind.

Nuleeni a marginalized woman in society. A beautiful Brahmin widow. She loves fakeer. No right to love and No right to live. Victim of sati system(pratha)

Nuleeni as Subaltern

Place of women in Indian society.

Inferior to man

No personal right.

Dependent.

Treated as a thing (property) >Live life with society's way of living life.

Women's Place in Indian Society

Practice of ''Sati'' Nuleeni

In this poem women sing song to convinceNuleeni become sati,the practice of sati is celebrated like festival.

These women speak assubaltern.

They are singing a songsof the festival of death.

The term ''Sati'' is a sanskrit words meaning ''Virtuous'' women''. However,it is often used to refer to women who are faithful wives, who self-immolate themselves on the funeral pyre of her husband'' .A woman oppressed by asphyxiating traditions.

Rebel against society.

Second time become widow,become victim of orthodox Indian society.

Physically live mentally died.