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is a novel by acclaimed Hindi writer

Phanishwar Nath Renu Phanishwar Nath Mandal 'Renu' (4 March 1921 – 11 April 1977) was one of the most successful and influential writers of modern Hindi literature in the post-Premchand era. He is the author of ''Maila Anchal'', which after Premchand's ''Godaan'' ...

. It was first published by

Bharatiya Jnanpith Bharatiya Jnanpith a literary and research organization, based in New Delhi, India, was founded on February 18, 1944Encyclopaedia of Indian literature vol. 1, p. 298 1987, Sahitya Akademi, by Sahu Shanti Prasad Jain of the Sahu Jain family and ...

in 1966. Juloos is a novel based on the change in the social paradigm of Goriyar village in Bihar when a group of

Bengali Hindus Bengali Hindus ( bn, বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু, translit=Bāṅgālī Hindu/Bāṅāli Hindu) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Benga ...

arrive from

East Pakistan East Pakistan was a Pakistani province established in 1955 by the One Unit Scheme, One Unit Policy, renaming the province as such from East Bengal, which, in modern times, is split between India and Bangladesh. Its land borders were with India ...

to live in a colony. This novel is also written in the Anchalik style for which the author is famous. The main protagonist in the story are * Pavitra, a bramhin girl who lost her parents and fiancee in the riots and unofficially heads the colony * Talewar Godhi, the richest man in the village who is from the godhi community and knows about

tantra Tantra (; sa, तन्त्र, lit=loom, weave, warp) are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term ''tantra'', in the Indian ...

. He is also fond of women and has illicit relationship with them on the pretext of tantric practices. * Jairam Singh is the disciple of Talewar Godhi. Apart from these, there are other main characters who represent different facets of village life in post independence Bihar.

Plot.Juloos Published by Bhartiya Jnanpith.

After riots in

the

of the Jumapur village run away to arrive in the Goryiar village in the Indian state of Bihar. Like most of the villages, Goriyar has its own set of caste divisions and in the novel the most economically progressive caste in the village is that of the Godhis. Initially the colony formed by the migratory people is scorned upon by the villagers. It is only after news of the fair Bengali lady Pavitra with long flowing hairs reach the ears of Talewar Godhi, the unofficial head of the village and its richest man, that he starts taking interest in the colony. He sends his disciple Jairam Singh to sprinkle tantric sand near the feat of the lady, so that she would automatically be attracted to him. As the contacts between the people of the colony and the village increases many new relationship are formed and older ones broken. The novel which runs in 135 pages portrays with subtlety the colorful and dark facets of the village life with a presence of gamut of interesting characters.

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{{Reflist 20th-century Indian novels Hindi-language novels 1966 novels Novels set in Bihar 1966 Indian novels

Plot.Juloos Published by Bhartiya Jnanpith.

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