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    The story is about Gangi, a poor lower caste woman, whose husband Jokhu is sick and thirsty. With no other source of water, Gangi decides to fetch water from the well belonging to the local upper caste landlord, Thakur, despite Jokhu warning her of the consequences. At the well, Gangi overhears two upper caste women gossiping about how the lower castes are not allowed to drink from the well. When the Thakur sees Gangi, he becomes enraged and abuses her for daring to draw water. The story highlights the discrimination and inhumane treatment faced by the lower castes in accessing basic resources like water due to the caste

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    The story is about Gangi, a poor lower caste woman, whose husband Jokhu is sick and thirsty. With no other source of water, Gangi decides to fetch water from the well belonging to the local upper caste landlord, Thakur, despite Jokhu warning her of the consequences. At the well, Gangi overhears two upper caste women gossiping about how the lower castes are not allowed to drink from the well. When the Thakur sees Gangi, he becomes enraged and abuses her for daring to draw water. The story highlights the discrimination and inhumane treatment faced by the lower castes in accessing basic resources like water due to the caste

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    The Thakur’s Well

    By Premchand

    Presented by: Shafa Mahroof (BEd-12-2020-14)


    Outline of the lesson

    About Premchand
    What is caste?
    Characters in the prose
    Themes
    End of the lesson shortnote
     Questions
    WHO IS PREMCHAND?

    Premchand was a
    His works include
    prolific writer of He is regarded as He used literature
    more than a
    Premchand is the Hindi and Urdu one of the for the purpose of
    dozen novels ,
    pen-name of literature and foremost arousing public
    around 250 short
    Dhanpat Rai translated various Hindustani awareness about
    stories, several
    Srivastav. works of English writers of early national and
    essays and
    into the 20st century. social issues 
    translations.
    vernacular.
    WHAT IS CASTE?
    caste
    NOUN
    1.each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative
    degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
    2."members of the lower castes" · the system of dividing society into castes.
    3.any class or group of people who inherit exclusive privileges or are
    perceived as socially distinct.
    4."those educated in private schools belong to a privileged caste"
    BRAHMINS

    KSHATRIYAS

    VAISHYAS

    SUDRAS

    UNTOUCHABLES
    CHARACTERS
    IN THE PROSE
    GANGI

    1. BRAVE, KINDHEARTED, LOVING


    WOMAN WHO WAS WILLING TO
    UNDERTAKE A RISK INORDER TO
    QUENCH THE THIRST OF HER
    HUSBAND.
    2. IGNORANT AS SHE WAS UNAWARE
    THAT BOILING WATER WOULD
    MAKE IT SAFE TO DRINK.
    CHARACTERS IN
    THE PROSE
    JOKHU
    A SICK AND POOR MAN WHO
    DRANK THE IMPURE WATER AS
    HE COULDN’T BEAR THE THIRST.
    A CARING HUSBAND AS HE
    WARNS GANGI TO NOT FETCH
    WATER FROM THE THAKUR’S
    WELL AS SHE WILL HAVE TO FACE
    SEVERE CONSEQUENCES.
    CHARACTERS IN
    THE PROSE
    THAKUR
    INHUMANE, HEARTLESS,
    SELFISH, HYPOCRITICAL
    LANDLORD WHO PROVIDED
    WATER ONLY FOR THOSE WHO
    BE;ONGED TO HIS CASTE AND A
    MAN WHO ILL TREATED THE
    PEOPLE OF THE LOWER CASTE.
    THEMES
    1.CASTE DISCRIMINATION

    2.HYPOCRISY

    3.MALE DOMINANCE/CHAUVINISM

    4.GENDER DISCRIMINATION
    End of the lesson shortnote
    Name of the prose

    Name of the writer

    Character traits 1.
    2.
    3.
    Themes 1.
    2.
    3.
    4.
    Messages 1.

    Literary devices 1.
    2.
    QUESTIONS
    1. Why was Gangi unable to get water from anywhere when the story
    opens?

    2. What did she plan to do, in order to assuage Jokhu’s thirst?

    3.What were the two women who came to the well taking about?
    What does this show?

    4. What happened when the Thakur’s door opened suddenly?

    5.Why does Premchand use the title, ‘The Thakur’s Well’ for his
    story, and how is this the best title he could have employed?
    ESSAY QUESTION
     HOW DOES THIS PROSE BRING OUT THE ISSUES OF
    SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND CRUELTY? (10 MARKS)
    REFERENCES

    o Oxford dictionary
    o Sparknotes.com
    o poem and prose – textbook
    o www.Britannica.com (Premchand | Indian author | Britannica)
    o Scribd.com (
    The Thakur's Well - Premchand | Dalit | Caste (scribd.com))

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