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PUNE RESEARCH  

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL IN ENGLISH

( ISSN 2454  -  3454  ONLINE ) (JIF 3.02)

 VOLUME 7 , ISSUE - 4  ( JULY-AUG  2021 )

DR. PADMINI MANE

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Rani Jindan Kaur, was the last queen of Punjab, daughter of royal dog trainer, Manna Singh Aulakh, youngest wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was the founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab that extended from Khyber Pass to Tibet and was also known as the Lion of Punjab for his fearless attitude. This paper studies the journey of Jindan, from Gurjanwala to Lahore ending in England through Nepal. If focuses on the events that transformed a simple peasant girl to a bride at a the age of eighteen and then a queen that soon ends in stage where she becomes a widow at twenty-one and then a queen regent to her six year old son. It details the royal games that Jindan has to imbibe in order to survive and pave the way for her son to inherit the throne. It also describes the unconventional attitude of Jindan as a queen and her strong and inspiring personality that even the British cannot ignore.

Keywords: Queen, royal, inspiring, survival, personality.

DR. SIDDARAMA RAJU M. V.

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Marguerite Annie Johnson well-known as Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry and was credited with a list of plays, movies and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. She is the best known for her series of seven autobiographies which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, “I know why the caged bird sings” which was published in 1969, it brought her international recognition and acclaim is about her life up to her the age of seventeen. She was respected as a spokes person for black people and women and her works have been considered a defense of black culture. ‘Caged bird’ is a poem which considers the conditions of the free bird and the caged bird. Actually this contrast between the birds enables her to express her own emotions about freedom and isolation. The reader can extend this feeling of being caged into the human condition as well.

DR. SUNIL SHIVAJIRAO KAMBLE

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Indian villages are the hotbeds of local ego, the violent caves of ignorance, the burst mindset, and the hotbeds of casteism and racism. The caste system in rural areas is a kind of obstacle to national economic development. Certain castes have to endure economic slavery and some groups that have been stuck in the caste system for generations as a result; cannot make their own economic progress.  Therefore, it is clear that without breaking the chain of the caste system not only certain groups but also the country won’t be able to progress on each level. However, in rural areas, maximum agricultural land has been concentrated among the upper castes only. As a result, the lower castes in the rural areas have been doing traditional works, that’s why; agricultural work is the main economic resource of landless laborers and hence they live captive life. The seasonable agricultural works and the fewer wage and less income make an insecure and unstable life of rural Dalits hence; they were being exploited under the pressure of the dominant class. This unfair kind of behavior of the upper caste towards Dalits won’t be solved the problems unless breaking the framework of the traditional rural economy. (Dr. Ambedkar 355). Their financial instability and uncertain life convert them loss of confidence, negative and unconscious to take any decision. As a result; on any small issue they become upset and irritate to face the problems. On this ground, Bama’s Karukku (1992) is a key text that exposes these shameful and ugly secrets of the mainstream Indian society that emphasizing the flawed, unjust opinions of those who work hard in the name of caste hierarchy in the agriculture and at the upper caste house. 

Keywords: Marginalization, Discrimination, Dehumanizing Caste System, Resistance, Education, Empowerment.   

SIDDHARTH G. AGHAM

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Mulk Raj Anand extraordinarily depicts the life of Dalit in his novels. He is one of the three novelists from Indian English literature who got fame because of their social explanation and make aware to the world about downtrodden. He was born in Peshawar today it is in Pakistan. Studied at Amritsar, Lahore and moved to London, and earned Ph.D. in 1929. He was awarded many awards like Padma Bhushan, Sahitya Academy Award in India. Most of his novels give a brief description of the downtrodden. The first novel of Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable was published in 1935, Coolie (1936), Two Leaves and a Bud (1937), The Village (1939), and so on. In his all novels he shows his deep concern about caste, class, and religion in India. The picture of people their condition, sorrows, sufferings gives a sense of humanity to the reader. The beginning period of the writing of Anand was the period of transformation the Indians were struggling for freedom, it was not only for politics but also for economic, literacy, casteism, superstition, untouchability, and poverty.