A Brief Summary Of 'Chanting Bande Mataram'

Later in the novel, when rains return back to the land struck with famine, their economy has little hope for it has already been transformed fundamentally and there seems to be no respite for the people in the village and it is difficult for them to go back to their old life. The Order of the Children continue to loot and live by their philosophy, simultaneously converting people into military. As a result, their army grows, the British law of order is threatened and so they are forced to suppress the rebellion. Shanti, when she comes across an English commander, affirms that there is no need for violence: “Look here, Englishman, I am a woman. To say nothing of a human being, I do not hurt even a creeper. So do not be afraid of your life. But
Chanting Bande Mataram, he charges forward strongly resolute to end his life in heroism. Shanti and Satyananda’s conversation regarding Jiban’s likely death in the battle, takes place in the religious security of the intimate jungle: “We shall have to sacrifice ourselves. I am going to die. Jiban and Bhavan will have to die. Perhaps, my little mother, you, too, will have to die. But you must realize that we must die doing our duty. There is no sense in dying merely for the sake of death, without furthering the cause of our country’s freedom.” Paradoxically, Bhavan’s courageous victory furthers the confusion for the governance of the liberated domain, as Satyananda angrily states: “None of us may be king. We all are ascetics. The king of the country is God himself. He is our Protector. After we capture the capital, you may crown a king. But know this for certain that I shall accept no other duty in life except the one of rigid asceticism. You may now retire to your respective duties.” The ideology of the revolutionaries only go as far as hording thousands of followers. After the victory is ensured, the leadership and with it the instruments of war will be surrendered, the followers will return back to the safety of their households. Ironically, after the process of victory is accomplished, the political power may fall in the hands of those greedy for material wealth- little responsibility is taken for those scarred revolutionaries returning from the