Synopsis:
The characteristics of the balladry of Moimonsinha Geetika are from a Matriarchal society. To choose husband, freedom of love, to marry in old age, all are the characteristics of a matriarchal society. Love in this society is like a divine wild flower.
The vices of city life cannot destruct this divineness. In this society selection of partner are more valued and greater than marriage. These folk literatures are like history of mankind. According to Dinesh Chandra Sen, a schedule caste Brahmin named Dwija Kanai created this ballad of Mahua (Maimansinha Gitika). The ballad starts with a beautiful secular style. To the long way in the north there is Gara Mountain. There lived a Brahmin with his six months old daughter. A leader of a gypsy group Hoomra stole (kidnapped) beautiful girl one night. At the age of sixteen this girl fell in love with a prince Nader Chand. Hoomra did not like this love affair. At the end of this folk ballad Hoomra ordered Mahua to kill Nader Chand. But Mahua kills herself instead of killing her husband. Afterwards the Gypsy Group killed Nader Chand.
In Bengals folk literature Mahua (A ballad of Moimonsinha Geetika) has been representing womanhood of our society.
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