We are providing you with a short and detailed summary of the class 9th Moments lesson In The Kingdom Of Fools along with the NCERT solutions and word meanings. Students can go through the summary of the lesson and get the gist. In this lesson, we have explained the story in short. The story is about a kingdom that is governed by a king and a minister and both of them were idiots and didn’t know how to rule the nation. We will also learn how the idiotic decision of the royal court leads them into trouble.
Word Meanings
- Bailiff- a law officer who makes sure that the decisions of a court are obeyed.
- Scrape- a difficult situation that one has got into.
- Royal decree- order by the court, or the ruler himself.
- Disguised- having changed one’s appearance to conceal one’s identity.
- Execution- being put to death.
- Executioners- hangman, Jack Ketch
- Impaling- pierce, stab.
- Scoundrel- good for nothing.
- Stake- a solid wooden or metal post with a point at one end, driven into the ground to support a plant, form part of a fence, mark a boundary, etc.
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In The Kingdom Of Fools: Central Idea
The Lesson In the kingdom of fools is a Kannada folktale from A.K. Ramanujan’s Folktales from India is a very humorous tale about a kingdom where the administration was in the hands of two fools, the king and his ministers. Both of them gave absurd orders, and the nation’s people had to follow them without any say.
Their tricks and play went wrong when the guru and his disciple capture them in their own foul play. Later on, the guru and disciple became the king and the minister respectively, and ruled the nation like any other nation.
Summary of In The Kingdom Of Fools
In the kingdom of fools, both the king and the minister were idiots and took very absurd decisions for their subjects. They decided to follow all the things in topsy turvy and ordered for the same. They decided to change day to night, and the people must follow their decision because of fear of death.
One bright day a guru and his disciple came to this beautiful city and to their surprise, they did not find anyone roaming. They were shocked as to where all the people of the city went. Later on, in the evening, when everyone as per the order returned for their nightly business, they could get something to eat. Both of them were surprised as all the eatables cost just one Duddu.
After a hearty treat, the guru felt discomfort as he came to know about the decree and how the kingdom is ruled by the fools. So, he decided to leave the city as soon as possible. But the disciple did not want to leave as everything here was so cheap and he was enjoying rice, bananas, and sweets.
After a prolonged discussion, Guru decided to leave the city and warned his student also, but the Disciple remained there. Time passed on, and the disciple continued to fill his belly. As a result, he became a fatso.
One day, a burglar broke into a wealthy merchant’s house, and as soon as he was about to leave after stealing the wall of the house fell on his head, and he was killed on the spot. His brothers blamed the wealthy merchant for the situation. The king heard the accused and the rich merchant was found guilty of not building a good wall.
The rich merchant, when summoned, pleaded that he was not at fault and the culprit was the bricklayer who laid the wall like this. The king thought deeply and sent his messengers to bring the bricklayer who was now an old man. He was asked the same thing and replied that he could not concentrate as there at that time was a dancing girl going up and down the streets with her anklets jingling.
The king now sent his servants to call for the dancing girl who was now an old woman. When she came, she replied that had given some gold to the goldsmith who was a lazy scoundrel and did not complete the girl’s work. So, she had to go up and down the streets to remind him of his work.
The king now thought that the case had become complicated, so he sent for the goldsmith and asked him the same question. He replied that he was given the work of the rich merchant and so he could not complete her work on time. The king asked who the rich merchant was and to all of their surprise, the rich merchant was the man whose wall had fallen on the thief.
Now the whole cycle of justice was completed and the rich merchant was summoned again as now the king found him guilty and wanted to punish him for the burglar’s death. The rich merchant pleaded as if that was his father’s fault. The king replied that because the merchant had inherited everything and so did his sins.
As the rich man was thin so all of them decided to find a man who could fit the noose prepared, the disciple was found fit and so the innocent disciple was taken to the court. Now he realized his guru’s wisdom and cried for his help. Guru could see the past, present, and future and came at once to help his student.
He whispered his plan into his ear and soon started fighting to die first. The king was astonished and asked the reason. The guru told them that their city was beautiful and unique and the stake was the god of justice. Whoever died on it first, would be born as a king. Whoever died next would become the minister.
The king along with his ministers decided on this matter and planned to take the places of the guru and the disciple. Next when dead bodies were thrown off for vultures to eat the subjects were shocked to see their king and the ministers. They were panicked as now who is going to rule, all of them took a unanimous decision and gave the responsibility of the nation to the guru and his disciple. Later on, guru and disciple ruled like any other kingdom and changed all the previous decisions.
NCERT Solutions For Class 9th Moments Chapter In The Kingdoms Of Fools
Q1.What are the two strange things the guru and his disciple find in the Kingdom of Fools?
The guru and the disciple found that though the city was beautiful, the people worked at night and slept during the day. The city was ruled by the idiots.
Q2. Why does the disciple decide to stay in the Kingdom of Fools? Is it a good idea?
Everything in the city costs just one duddu. So, the disciple decided to remain there and enjoy the cheap food. Of course, it was not a good idea as the city was ruled by fools and what would happen next was totally unpredictable.
Q3. Name all the people who are tried in the king’s court, and give the reasons for their trial.
The owner of the house, the bricklayer, the dancing girl, and the goldsmith were called to the royal court. They were all summoned because of the poor thief’s death. The merchant tried for building a weak wall. The bricklayer was tried for doing his work carelessly. The dancing girl was tried for disturbing the bricklayer. The goldsmith was blamed for making the dancing girl walk up and down to his house a dozen times.
Q4. Who is the real culprit according to the king? Why does he escape punishment?
The merchant blamed his father for making this house and wall too weak. But according to the fool king, the man had inherited all the things he had inherited his sins also. So he was found guilty of killing the man.
Q5. What are the Guru’s words of wisdom? When does the disciple remember them?
The guru was full of wisdom and could see past, present, and future. He came to know that his student needed him and in no time he got there to help him. The disciple remembered his guru’s words. It was because of the guru’s words that they both saved their life.
Q6. How does the Guru manage to save his disciple’s life?
Guru arrived on time to save and created a drama to save the student from the execution. He told the king that whosoever would die first would become the king in the next life of this beautiful city. The second to die would become the minister. So the king along with his ministers decided to postpone the execution. The next day both the king and minister took their place and the guru and his disciple managed to escape.
Conclusion
We have provided you with the summary of the moments chapter In The Kingdom Of Fools along with the ncert solutions and important meanings. Students can go through it before their examination so that they could get help on how to attempt the questions in the examination.
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