Footprints ch09 Bholi - CBSE Revision Notes

CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 9
Bholi

  • A Girl Sulekha called Bholi youngest daughter of number dar Ramlal.
  • An Accident made her a backward child (10month old) and had pox marks on body (when 2 years old).
  • She spokes first time (when 5 year old) and stammered.
  • Parents did not care for her.
  • Primary school opened (She was 7 year old).
  • People did not want to marry educated girl.
  • But she was sent to the school.
  • Meeting with a kind hearted lady teacher.
  • The teacher encouraged her to speak.
  • She hoped for a new life.
  • Years passed village became a small town.
  • Bishamber nath a rich grocer was ready to marry Bholi.
  • Marriage ceremony with, pomp and slender Bishmbhar Nath.
  • He saw the pox marks on Bholi’s face.
  • Demanded for thousands to marry her in the name of dowry.
  • Ramlal requested him to marry his daughter and gave him the money with great difficulty.
  • But now Bholi refused to marry him.
  • First time she did not stammer and said “I can marry with a man of the age same to my father, who is even a lame but can’t marry with a greedy man and conceptive coward just for the sake of your izzat.
  • People whispered.
  • Bholi answered them smartly.
  • Ramlal was tensed.
  • Bholi asked him to not to worry about her & said “ I will teach in the school and serve both of you (parents) in your old age.”