THE TIGER KING_ Note Making & Summary Writing

NOTE-MAKING

THE TIGER KING

THE PRINCE- BIRTH, DESTINY & UNMITIGATED WISDOM

Ø  Born in the hour of BULL

Ø  Bull & Tiger are enemies, so Prince’s death comes by tiger

Ø  Everyone stood transfixed in stupefaction on Prince’s ablt talk sensible just on the 10^th day of birth.

Ø  Prince’s sermon to the chief astrologer to talk sensible and tell about the manner of death.

 

English maniac UPBRINGING of the PRINCE

Ø  Drank the milk of an English cow

Ø  Brought up by an English nanny

Ø  Tutored in English by an English man

Ø  Saw nothing but English movies.

 

ROYAL ORDER AND THE TIGER HUNT

Ø  On attaining 20 yrs age, awarded with court of wards.

Ø  Within 10 yrs killed 70 tigers, tigers at extinction in Prbprm

Ø  The king decides to marry a girl of royal family of a state with large tiger ppln

Ø  5/6 tigers on each trip managed 99 tiger killings, adorned walls of the royal palace.

 

KING’S CAPRITIOUS WHIMS

Ø   “You may kill even a cow in self-defence”.

Ø  State Ban on tiger killing EXCEPT maharaja.

Ø  Decided to get married for want of tigers.

Ø  Announced a THREE-YRS exmpt from taxes to the village (spotted tiger).

Ø  Maharaja’s furry and obstinacy resulted in officers losing jobs.

Ø  Orders Dewan to double the taxes forthwith. (On not finding a tiger).

Ø  Dewan was threatened to be fired off his post.

 

BUREAOCRASY CRISIS, BRITISH BRUTALITY

Ø  Dewan threatened for inability in finding out the last tiger.’

Ø  A tiger from Chennai ppls park brought in a car out of death threat.

Ø  British officer wanted to kill tiger & get photographed with its corpse.

Ø  Officer’s wife was bribed to dissuade the officer from tiger killing.

 

THE CLIMAX-THE HUNTING OF 100TH TIGER

Ø  Astrologer’s prophecy- Even after killing 99 tigers, maharaja should beware of the 100th tiger.

Ø  Seemed easier to find TIGER’S MILK than a live tiger

Ø  Happy news of disappearing sheep from hill-side village.

Ø  The Dewan and his wife dragged a tiger from ppls park Chennai and drove it to the hunting site.

Ø  Launching of SATYAGRAHA by the tiger by refusing to get out of the car.

 

THE CUNNING BUREUOCRACY & DEPLOMACY OF THE CITIZENS

Ø  The British officer was bribed through his wife.

Ø  Dewan and his wife personally dragged tiger from ppls park Chennai to retain his job.

Ø  The hunters shot dead the tiger to bury down the truth out of fear.

Ø  The shopkeeper quoted 300 rupees cost for a paltry toy just to maintain royal ego.

 

WHOSE VOW got FULFILLED; THE MAHARAJ’S OR THE ASTROLOGER’S

Ø  Finally Maharaja took a sharp aim & shot at tiger.

Ø  100th tiger killing-reality; the royal hunters found the tiger fainted.

Ø  Didn’t disclose the truth, killed the tiger themselves.

 

THE MAHARAJ GOT KILLED BY THE 100TH TIGER.

Ø  Maharaja presents toy tiger on the occasion of his son’s 3rd bdy.

Ø  The toy was unskillfully carved having tiny slivers which pierced maharaja’s right hand.

Ø  Inflection flared, developed into a suppurating sore.

Ø  Expert dr’s from Madras operated the king, rendering the operation successful  by killing the king.

 

Abbreviations	Full form
Yrs	Years
Ablt	ability
&	And
Ppls	peoples
Dr’s	Doctor’s
Prbprm	Pratibandhapuram
exmpt	exempted

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SUMMARY

 THE TIGER KING

The prince, born with inbred wisdom made sensible statements on the very tenth day, putting people transfixed in stupefaction outwitting the chief astrologer demanding him to tell the manner he dies. As, he was born in the hour of Bull, naturally had a life-threat from tiger. The king set on mission ‘Killing-100-Tigers’. Seventy tigers were shot dead in ten years, married to a princess of a kingdom boasting tiger population. Reaching on the ninety-ninth figure, there was complete dearth of tigers and hence had to go through real ordeal. Somehow the Dewan managed a tiger from people’s park Chennai; the king took aim and shot at it. Unfortunately, the tiger had not been put to death by the royal bullet. The King presents, an unskillfully carved wooden toy tiger, on the third birthday, to his three-year son and while playing with him with the same toy tiger whose slivers pierced in the right hand of the king, resulting in a flared infection costing the life of the king.

By Arun Thakare

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ramaswamy Aiyear Krishnamurthi, a Tamil writer had been a journalist, critic,poet and Indian Independence Activist also. He was known by his pen name Kalki, which is derived from the suffixes of his wife (Kalyani) and his name Krishnamurthy. Kalki bagan his primary education in his village school and later attended Municipal High School in Mayavaram. he quit it in 1921 for joining Mahatma Gandhi's call for non-co-operation.

 

ABOUT THE STORY

The story The Tiger King is a satire on teh pride and stubbornness of people in power. the setting is of the days of autocratic and eccentric royal order, the kings.

actually, these kings were surving under the THUMB rule of British and that's why always feared of them. These rulers were actually far disconnected with the masses. They took no interest about the welfare of common people and working class. They mostly bent the laws in their favour and self suiting interests. The Maharaja of Pratibandhpurum tried to belie what was written in his fate. the chief astrologer had predicted that the cause of the death of the king would be a tiger.The king by giving up all royal duties haunted just by killing tigers. he set to kill 100, and shot all but one, which invariably become the reason of his death.