Bhao ……… The Story of a lost Hamlet

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Abstract

Mustansar Husain tarr’s novel “Bhao” is based on an imaginary hamlet. It was situated on the bank of river Ghagra or Sarsvati. The novel describes the lost civilization of pre Aryan era in sub-continent. According to this novel the first ever civilization of man on earth, was agriculture and the first model of art was utensils, made of clay. Human social and collective life, presented in this novel, is consisted of religious beliefs, social norms, passions and feelings, division of social work etc. it also shows the rituals of marriage and death. In that village polyandry was in practice in which Paroshni has two husbands, Samro and Warchan. Polyandry was an old practice in India, according to Mahabharata; Draupandi was the daughter of king Panachala who was married to five brothers.  The whole life of the village on the bank of river Ghagra revolves around the waters of Ghagra and its seasonal floods, the great waters. The river was not so deep but so wide that the other shore was on the skyline.