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'''"Dui Bigha Jomi"''' ({{IPA-bn|d̪ui bigʱɑ d͡ʒomi|IPA}}, {{trans|Two [[bigha]]s of land}}) is a [[Bengali language]] poem written by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name="Nielsen2018">{{cite book|author=Kenneth Bo Nielsen|title=Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z11PDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA161|date=22 February 2018|publisher=Anthem Press|isbn=978-1-78308-748-8|pages=161–}}</ref><ref name="Mookerjea-Leonard2017">{{cite book|author=Debali Mookerjea-Leonard|title=Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition: The Paradox of Independence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JfyfDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT205|date=7 April 2017|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-317-29388-0|pages=205–}}</ref> The poem describes a peasant's love towards his land and was the inspiration for the story ''Rickshawala'', on which the Hindi film ''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]'', directed by [[Bimal Roy]], was based.

== Synopsis ==
The poem is written in the [[first-person narrative]], from the perspective of a peasant called "Upen".<ref name="Mookerjea-Leonard2017" /> He was a poor man with nothing other than "Dui Bigha Jomi", two [[bigha]]s of ancestral land. The rich landlord ([[zamindar]]) of his village conspired against Upen, filed a false lawsuit against him and evicted him from his land. Being unable to prevail against the powerful zamindar, Upen left his village, became a disciple of a holyman ([[Sannyasa|sannyasi]]), and began traveling to different places as a homeless person. Several years passed and Upen ultimately returned to his homeland. On entering the village, he experienced strong emotions. He sat beside a mango tree and recalled how he use to play around the tree during his childhood. Suddenly two mangoes fell from the tree. Upen considered this as a gift to him from the tree, but just then, the zamindar's gardener came on the scene, and without recognizing Upen, the real owner of the land, accused him of stealing fruits and took him to the zamindar. The zamindar also failed to identify Upen, and with his friends insulted him and called him a thief.<ref name="Mookerjea-Leonard2017" />

== Influence ==
The title of Tagore's poem and the story (Rickshawala) by self-proclaimed Marxist [[Salil Chowdhury]], inspired ''[[Do Bigha Zamin]]'' (1953), a [[Hindi]]-language film directed by [[Bimal Roy]]; it was noted as one of the "most memorable films of post-colonial India".<ref name="Chatterji2017">{{cite book|author=Shoma A. Chatterji|title=The Cinema of Bimal Roy: An 'Outsider' Within|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vxtBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT51|date=22 May 2017|publisher=SAGE Publishing India|isbn=978-93-86062-87-1|pages=51–}}</ref> The poem has been referred in numerous books and stories including [[Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay]]'s ''Dui Bari''.<ref name="Bandopadhyay)2016">{{cite book|author=বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় (Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay)|title=Duibari দুই বাড়ী|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qoPVDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT165|access-date=25 October 2018|date=13 August 2016|publisher=Pathok Publishers Pvt. Ltd.|language=bn|isbn=978-93-85246-60-9|pages=165–}}</ref>

== References ==

{{Wikisourcelang|bn|কথা ও কাহিনী/দুই বিঘা জমি}}

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[[Category:Poems by Rabindranath Tagore]]

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