Description

Kedar Chatujjye is yet another immortal creation of the legendary humorist Rajshekhar Basu alias Parashuram in the annals of the comic genres in Bengali literature Portrayed as the quintessential country dweller in preindependent Bengal Kedar Chatujjye represented the rustic old Brahmin who typified the semiliterate religious bigot Chatujjye was selfconvinced about his innate racial superiority the repertoire of anecdotes and bravery but timidly accepted the preconceived notion of the vaunted social status of the fairskinned foreigners whom he considered naturally discerning and class worthy For Chatujjye the proof of social ascendency and individual pride lay in becoming the willful confidant of the fairskinned foreigners irrespective of the formers Pidgin English or lack of genteel etiquettes