Name : Neha Mehta Roll no.:17 Paper no.: 4 Topic : Role of Religion in Nuleeni’s

Life Submitted To :M.K Bhavnagar

University

Introduction The Fakeer of Jungheera published by

Samuel Smith and company, hurkaru library Calcutta in 1828

Derozio died in 1831 after a brief illness.

Many revivalists were cut to the quick when told by non Hindu reformers to modernize their society.

Nuleeni’s Life

While the heroin, the widow nuleeni, come from an upper caste bengali Hindu family

She is called Nuleeni.

Though her situation is rather hopeless, she does not reflect upon death but upon love especially the “blissful hours’’.

Derozio see love between Hindu and Muslim as transceding religion, though this could be derozio’s own atheistic vision of religious categories based on his rationalistic temper

. Derozio embarked upon a mission of

resolving some of the inherent evils of Hindu society the practice of widow burning.

The issue of Sati was not just a social phenomenon.

Natural causes and hygenic practice also aggravated the malice.

Though there were many reasons for the increase of incidents of sati in Bengali males was a significant factor.

He believed that now sati declare illegal women would enjoy freedom and “Social bliss” in a new India.

The widow bought to the sacrificial fire is young and pure in her “spotleess loveliness” but she is a “purchased flower” and a victim of human caprice and guile.

Women who sacrificed themselves continued to be called Sati long after they were dead and gone.

Conclusion

The hardening of religious identifies in the late 19 and early 20 centuries and the deepening schism between various religious categories especially Hindu and Muslims rejected the entire syncretistic tradition that once flowed unhampered not only in Bengal.

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