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Raag Darbari
Raag Darbari
• The novel is originally written by Shrilal Shukla in 1968, for which he was
awarded the Sahitya Academy Award (1969)
• The novel is narrated from the point of view of Rangnath while his stay in
Shivpalganj village at his uncle's house.
• This work gives us a contrary between the idealistic view of rural lives and
their original state .
Characters
Gayadin: The vice chair person of the college managing committee; owns a shop.
Bela: Gayadin’s daughter
Ruppan, who is in love with Bela.
Vaidyaji
Local MLA
Jognath
The Policemen
The school masters
Chapter 12
• A robbery took place at Gayadin's house and his family hid the identity of
the thief during police investigation
• Malviya claims that the principal is wasting money to which Gayadin says
"public money is bound to be wasted"
• Chamrahi, a place for the untouchables show that inequality among various
social groups still reside within the society.
Chapter 13
• Pradhan ( Ramadhin's brother) Also a " son of a pig " 🐷 Who takes bribe
from people
•when Sanichar enters and was asked to sit with them, he denies saying " I
am not worthy to sit with you sahib "
•He also meets few policemen who were searching for the person who had
sent a threat letter to Ramadhin
•Rangnath meets Langar who told him that the file is still in his office
Chapter 15
• Rangnath visits the temple which was made in "Satyug" upon examining he finds out that its not
so old
• the priest asks Rangnath for money when Rangnath asks to show the statue of the God in the
Mandir
• Ruppan saves Rangnath from the trouble
• Inspector Singh tries to take bribe from the shopkeepers
• later Ruppan intervened and solved the fued
• During the return , Rangnath and Ruppan both meet a whore who tries to seduce them but
failed at the attempt since they took no interest in her
• Rangnath then asks Ruppan Babu about the love letters he wrote to Bela but Ruppan didn't
answer
Relevance of Raag Darbari in villages of post independence era v/s
contemporary time
•The novel carries relevance even know because the conditions of rural areas
is pretty much the same although they have different variants of problem
know.