2. THE TIGER KING BY KALKI

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     COMPLETE SOLUTION OF "THE TIGER KING"


Q1. Name the author and the story?
Ans:- The author is Kalki and the story is ‘The Tiger King’.
Q2. Who is the hero of the story?
Ans:- The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is the hero of the story?
Q3. By which name the Maharaja of Pratibandapuram may be identified?
Ans:- The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram may be identified as Jamedar-General, Khiledar-Major, Sata Vyaghra Samhari, Maharajadhiraaja Visva Bhuvana Samrat, Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur. But this name is often shortened to the Tiger King.
Q4. What had the astrologer foretold about the Tiger King as soon as he was born?
Ans:- The astrologer had predicted that the child will grow up to become the warrior of warriors, hero of heroes, champion of champions but one day the Tiger King would actually have to die due to tiger. Because the Tiger King was born in the hour of the Bull, the Bull and the Tiger are enemies, therefore, death comes from the Tiger.
Q5. Why the astrologer flabbergasted having seen the royal infant?
Ans:- A great miracle took place after the ten days. An astonishing phrase emerged from the lips of the ten-days-old Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur. The royal infant started raising many unexpected intelligent questions before the astrologer which seemed incredible. So the astrologer flabbergasted having seen the prince.
Q6. How did the crown prince Jung Jung Bahadur grow up?
Ans:- Crown prince Jung Jung Bahadur grew taller and stronger day by day. The boy drank the milk of an English cow, was brought up by an English nanny, tutored in English by an Englishman; he saw nothing but English films. He grew up into become an Englishman in his ways.
Q7. How many Tigers had to kill the Maharaja to secure himself?
Ans:- The Maharaja had to kill hundred Tigers to keep himself secure from the demise.
Q8. Why did the Maharaja ban Tiger hunting in the state?
Ans:- After the Maharaja was crowned the king, the astrologer’s foretell gradually reached his ears, and he set out on a tiger hunt. When he killed his first Tiger, the astrologer informed him that he would have to kill a hundred tigers to escape the oracle. That’s why, the Maharaja banned Tiger hunting in the state so that he could get the required number of Tigers to kill and reach the goal.
Q9. Why did the Maharaja order the Dewan to double the land tax?

Ans:- When the Maharaja had killed ninety nine Tigers and the hundredth Tiger was hard to find, there came the news of the hundredth Tiger from a hillside village. The Maharaja proclaimed a three-year exemption from all revenues (taxes) for that village. However, days passed and the Tiger could not be found anywhere. The angry Maharaja, therefore, ordered the Dewan Saheb to double the land tax for that village in the frustration.
Q10. Who is the Tiger King? Why did he get that name?
Ans:- The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is often known as the Tiger King. He got this name because when he was born, prophecy was made that his death would come from a Tiger. Thus, he killed ninety nine Tigers. And at last, ironically, his death came from a wooden toy Tiger.
Q11. What will the Maharaja do to find the required number of Tigers to kill?
Ans:- The Maharaja will merry a girl in the royal family of a state with large tiger population so that he could kill more Tigers whenever he may visit his in-law to complete his requirement of Tigers.
Q12. How did the Dewan manage to arrange the hundredth Tiger for the Maharaja?
Ans:- The Dewan’s Tiger was poor and weak. He had brought him from the people’s park Madras to protect him from the Maharaja’s gun. At midnight, the Dewan ahd his wife dragged the Tiger to the car and shoved it into the seat. They took the Tiger to the forest where the Maharaja was at hunting and they left it there.
Q13. Did the Tiger King shoot the hundredth Tiger? Give the reason.
Ans:- No, when the Tiger King shot the hundredth Tiger, the bullet actually missed its mark. The Tiger fainted from the shock of the bullet whizzing (loud blunt sound) past him. So, the Tiger King didn’t kill the hundredth Tiger.
Q14. How did the Tiger King celebrate his victory over the killing of the hundredth Tiger?
Ans:- When the Tiger King killed the hundredth Tiger, his joy knew no bound. He realized prophecy turned wrong. He elated King returned to his capital and ordered his staff to bring the dead Tiger in a grand procession. The Tiger was buried and a tomb was erected over it.
Q15. What will now happen to the astrologer? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved?
Ans:- Nothing will happen to the astrologer. The King has died. The prophecy was not indisputably disproved. No one blamed the astrologer. The Maharaja was not able to kill a hundredth Tigers. And at last, the toy Tiger which was made of wooden took life of the King. It was the hundredth Tiger. Thus the oracle came true.
Q16. What is the author’s indirect comment on subjecting innocent animals to the willfulness of human beings?
Ans:- The author wants to tell his readers by this lesson ‘The Tiger King’ that killing innocent animals for fulfilling one’s whims and will is quite wrong and sinful. The Tiger  
King goes on hunting for his own will and interferes with the course of nature by indulging in the heinous slaughter of Tigers.
It is just an irony that fate has other plans for a conceited (proudly fellow) man like the Tiger King. In the story the Tiger King doesn’t respect the right to live of other living beings. So, fate pays him back in the same way by awarding him bitter death through a wooden toy Tiger.
The author wants to leave a message through the lesson that all of us are subject to death. Death is common to all beings and every living being has right to live life. We have no right to have lives of others or have them death anyhow. The Tiger King breaks the law of nature and that’s why he is bitterly punished by the nature to death. 
Q17. Can you relate instances of game-hunting among the rich and the powerful in the present times that illustrate the callousness of human beings towards wildlife?
Ans:- In the present times wildlife laws have been strictly enforced. No one is allowed to kill any wild animal at any rate. But a few Bollywood stars were in the news for killing a black deer (Buck) in Rajasthan during the film shooting there. Though black deer is an endangered species among many extinct species which is covered under the wildlife act, there are also some other examples when rich and powerful people killed wild animals for their own amusement. Despite strict regulation enforced by the government to safeguard wildlife, such incidents keep on happening. This shameless and rude behaviour towards wild animals of human shows insensitivity and their lack of concern about the nature.

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