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“The story tiger king is a conceit of those in power “explain

-conceit means when somebody boasts about his own capabilities and talks about oneself,
exaggerate about themselves
-satire: he is fighting the tigers by his bare hands but at the same time scared of british
taking over his thrown

 Had so much money but spent on sending rings for the british instead of for the
welfare for the ppl
 Those who talk a lot, they get scared and don’t do sh
 The way he was killing tigers just cuz someone told that ull die cuz of a tiger
 The tendency of humans to kill animals for their good
 Self glorification- his huge ass name-“ Sir jelaani jang jang bahadur sath vyajgri
samraat MAD ARC CTCK”- Social satire on the conceit of the kings(dhikhawa)
 His elaborative names has so many names and is a satire cuz he never fought a single
war
 A place pratibhandapuram of tamil nadu
 When tiger king was born- he was 10 day old and raised a question- astrologer
predicted that son will die- the boy cross questioned the manner of the death- it was
cuz of tigers- star sign of tauras (sheep) and will be killed by tigers
 Believed in the superstition of astrologer
 Father died, bro made king in teenage
 Tiger king drank milk of an English cow, taken care by english nanny, dressing sense
and movies were English, English songs, English teachers- glorifying themselves as
british
 King was told about 10 day incident – king was brave and killed and brought carcass
(dead body of animal)- astrologer said “u can kill 99 tigers but not 100th one”
 Writer wanna show idiotism of the kings who had ruled us
 He started killing tigers and wanted to prove destiny wrong
 One day a high ranking brit officer ”dorai” asked for coming along w tiger king-
wanted to go for tiger hunt- king in danger of losing throne- sent 50 expensive rings
to the wife- worth 3Lakhs rupees- thwon saved
 Passed an order that no one can even flinch a stone on tigers- no poaching/hunters
 He killed 70 tigers and no more tigers left
 Deewan of king- was an idiot- wanted to marry 3rd wife- wanted to marry whoever
had most number of tigers in her area-whenever he would visit FIL, he would kill the
tigers there- 29 tigers.
 Joke that tiger took birth control or suicided lol
 Anxiety boomed
 King couldn’t find tiger as said by villagers, waited for while but no tiger- deewan was
told that his job will be lost- deewans wife suggested to take a tiger from zoo and tie
as a sheep- sheep really old
 King was really happy, a tomb would be erected for the king- courageous and symbol
of strength
 The last tiger wasn’t dead and so hunters killed the tiger( king wasn’t respected by
anyone and not dear)
 King had son – sons 3rd bday- for gift purchased wooden tiger made my unskilled
labourer- and repriced the cheap tiger to expensive – bargained to 300 rs ( real value
3 pies)- didn’t even pay the shopkeeper for the amt of toy( conceit)
 One quil pricked kings finger- became a wound – then a pus- called 3 famous
surgeons and operated the king- said “operation was successful, maharaja is dead”
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