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In ‘Rajmohan’s Wife’, the debut novel in English by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, we find that the characterisation of Rajmohan, like the other character portrayals, has been depicted very skilfully and subtly by the novelist with his stroke of master craftsmanship. The more we go through the novel, the more we do come to know about the much-discussed character of Rajmohan, who was indeed the undeserving and worthless husband of Matangini. He represents immorality, corruption, dishonesty, orthodoxy, brutality, worthlessness, lack of integrity of character, profaneness, propensity to torment his wife and so on and so forth. In course of the novel, we, slowly but surely, come to explore that this character lacked conscience and discretion. Broadly speaking, Matangini and Rajmohan had an unhappy conjugal life. It is worthy to be noted that he was tyrannical, dictatorial, jealous and unloving to his wife. Matangini had to spend every day with lots of pain, pangs, suffering and misery due...