social pharmacy d-pharm 1st year by Pragati K. Mahajan
Nuleeni'S life
1. Name : Neha Mehta
Roll no.:17
Paper no.: 4
Topic : Role of Religion in Nuleeni’s Life
Submitted To :M.K Bhavnagar
University
2. 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.
3. 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’’.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.