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    This document provides a summary of the short story "Imam and the Indian" in 4 paragraphs. It introduces the two main characters, the Imam and Khamees the rat, and describes their differing relationships with the narrator. The narrator is a foreigner who meets the Imam, a village leader who is respected but also spoken of disdainfully. The narrator later casually meets Khamees in the rice fields and they become friends. Finally, an argument breaks out between the narrator and Imam after Khamees asks the narrator to request healing for his sick wife from the Imam, who insults the narrator's culture.

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    This document provides a summary of the short story "Imam and the Indian" in 4 paragraphs. It introduces the two main characters, the Imam and Khamees the rat, and describes their differing relationships with the narrator. The narrator is a foreigner who meets the Imam, a village leader who is respected but also spoken of disdainfully. The narrator later casually meets Khamees in the rice fields and they become friends. Finally, an argument breaks out between the narrator and Imam after Khamees asks the narrator to request healing for his sick wife from the Imam, who insults the narrator's culture.

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    SUBMITTED TO: PROFESSOR SHUBHI

    SUBMITTED BY: SAHER HIBA KHAN (20185826), SEM-4


    The Story, ‘Imam and the Indian’ is quite a decent story telling us distinctively about two main
    characters; the Imam and Khamees, the Rat. The relationship of the narrator and the Imam is totally
    different to that of the former and Khamees. Ghosh begins with the narrator’s recollection of how he
    met the Imam and Khamees, the rat almost at the same time. The narrator was a foreigner and it was
    his duty to introduce himself to the Imam who was a leading figure in the village. Whenever the people
    talked about the Imam they did it with attached dignity but also spoke disdainfully. The Imam was a
    barber and a healer with knowledge in herbs and traditional ways of healing. The village didn’t like the
    Imam anymore; he belonged to the village’s past.

    When the narrator went to meet the Imam, he was received with respect but not with warmth. It was
    meant to be because first meetings are always awkward. When the Imam was asked about his herbs and
    traditional ways of his healing, the Imam diverted the conversation on how he’s learning to use
    injections. He asked if he could show his skill on the narrator to which the narrator declined. The
    meeting ended with the Imam offended.

    The narrator met Khamees, the rat quite causally while taking a walk through the rice fields. He was
    called a rat because of his way to eat things with his tongue; like a rat did with his teeth. Khamees
    laughed at everything. The reason of his name. He asked the narrator about the rituals of Indian culture
    in which people burn the dead and how cows are worshipped. Over which he made fun by saying, “were
    they short of Kindling? Or was it to escape the day of Judgement? Everyone laughed away at this and
    some were very shocked. The narrator protested over some of the notions but he knew he wouldn’t be
    taken seriously. Gradually they became good friends.

    After a month or so, he and Khamees were coming back to the village and saw the Imam sitting on the
    steps of the Mosque with an old man. Khamees asked upon a favour from the narrator to ask the Imam
    if he could treat his sick wife upon which he went and striked up a conversation. The Imam tried to
    ignore the narrator. He started to taunt the narrator over his inability to read Arabic and over his
    countries way of disposing the dead and worshipping of cows. He accused him and his country of still
    being a prisoner of primitive and savage ways whereas the west was quite progressive with its guns,
    bombs and tanks.

    This irritated the narrator to the extent that an argument between him and the Imam took place and
    everyone gathered around. Before the things start to heat up, Khamees led away the narrator to his
    home and served him dinner. And asked him not to bother about it. He offered to visit the country but
    reluctantly said that if he dies, he should be buried and not burnt.

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