The Fakeer of Jungheera
By: Henry
Derozio
The Fakeer of Jungheera is a long
poem by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. He was poet, novelist and writer. Most
of the work in found to Indian religious, culture, rule and regulation,
rigidity, culture etc. His writing in see to voice of against to
society. Something should be real and has society represented
of cruel way. In this long poem, “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 - A study in the Narrative Art. “The Fakeer of
Jungheera” is the masterpiece creation of Henry Derozio. The Fakeer of
Jungheera as a Revolutionary Poem Sati Pratha 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. 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. 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. In
poem we see that how nature and village people have to evil to this both lover
life. We see that Nuleeni was protagonist and she is fear to become dying of
them. 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 pai 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. 
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