The Tiger King class 12 NCERT solutions

The Tiger King class 12 NCERT solutions

The Tiger King class 12 NCERT solutions : The Tiger King is a story from the class 12 NCERT English supplementary reader Vistas. The Tiger king is written by Kalki. Here, you'll get The Tiger King lesson's NCERT solutions. 

The Tiger King class 12 questions answers. 

The stoey "The Tiger King"  is based on political satire and he has presented it humourously to the readers.The Tiger King is very much interesting and very easy to underatand.

Here you'll get topic related to this lesson The Tiger King. 

• Introduction about the author

• Summary

• Text book questions answers

• Short questions answers

• Additional questions answers

• Long questions answers

• Extra questions answers

• Important questions answers

Kalki: Introduction about the author

Kalki the author of the " The Tiger King " Was born on 9 Sepetember 1899 in Puttamangalam in Thanjavur. Kalki was the pen name of R. Krishnamurthy, a noted Tamil writer, film & music critic, Indian independence activist and journalist from Tamil Nadu. He passed away on 5th December 1954.

The Tiger King summary

The Tiger King is a short political satire on the pride and ego of kings in particular, and of all those in power in general. It also draws attention to the cruelty being meted out to animals and calls for measures to protect the tiger which is close to extinction.

Kalki begins on a humourous note telling the reader that the Tiger King, he is going to introduce us to, is already dead. To relate the manner of his death he begins with the day this king was born. The Tiger King was born as Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur, Maharaja of Pratibandapuram. Astrologers predicted that the king would one day die. Hearing the inevitable, a voice spoke and asked them to be more exacting rather than state what everyone knew. All stood stunned to see that it was the ten day old Jung Bahadur who had not only spoken but spoken intelligently.

The chief astrologer then announced that the Maharaja would die by a tiger. Again the child spoke saying terrifying, "let tigers beware". Ofcourse Kalki the author admits that this could have a rumour, but it did match what followed.

At the age twenty, Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur ascended the throne. He soon learnt of the preditction and set out to kill his first tiger. He proudly announced this to the chief astrologer only to learn that it would be the hundredth tiger that would be his undoing. Taking this as a challenge the king declared that only he would have the right to hunt tigers in his kingdom. Within ten years he killed seventy tigers, some with ease and some after a fight, but he did kill them all. But this resulted in the population of tigers becoming extinct in Pratibandapuram.

He resolved this problem by marrying into the royal family of a state which had a great number of tigers and soon took his score upto ninety nine.Now the hundredth tiger seemed to be impossible to find. Following a surge in the king's bad temperament the Dewan arranged for a tiger from a park, and the king fulfilled his target by shooting this tiger. Yet unknown to him,his shot did not kill the tiger, so his score remained at ninety nine. The tiger was killed by one of his men, and buried as per the king's order.

On his son's third birthday the king bought a wooden tiger as a gift. While the king and the prince were playing with the wooden toy tiger. a wooden splinter pierced the king's hand. This tiny injury flared up to such a major sore that it had to be operated. The Tiger king died during the operation. So in a dramatical and ironical manner, the hundredth tiger finally killed the king.

The Tiger King textbook questions answers

Q1. Who is the Tiger king ? Why does he gets that name ? 

Ans: The Tiger king is the king of Pratibandapuram, Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur.

   
He got that name because when he was born, the chief astrologer told that his death would come from a tiger, for this reason he determine to kill tiger and hunted them in his entire life.

Q2.  What did the royal infant grow up to be ? 

Ans: The royal infant grew up to be a fine hunter and marksman. He grew taller and stronger. When he was a boy he drank milk of an english cow, he was tutored by an englishman and he saw english movie.

Q3. What will the Maharaja do to dind the required number of tigers to kill ? 

Ans: The Maharaja had killed seventy tigers quite successfully but by then the tiger population in his kingdom became extinct. So the king decided to marrry in the royal family of a state which have a large population of tigers and he continued with his mission of tiger hunting.

Q4. How will the Maharaja prepare himself for the hundred tiger which he supposed to decide his fate ? 

Ans: The Maharaja had killed ninety nine tigers and he was only a step ahead from completing his vow. But tigers became extinct both in his kingdom and in his in laws. But he remembered that he needed to be extremely careful with the hundred tiger as the chief astrologer predicted that even after killing ninety nine tigers he should be beware of the hundred tiger.

Q5. What will now happen to the astrologer ? Do you think the prophecy was indisputably disproved ? 

Ans: No harm will be done to the astrologer. because the king had challenged the astrologer when he was angry .but after killing the hundred tigers king must be very happy and he would forgive the astrologer.

   
No, the prophecy was not indisputably disproved because the king was not successful in killing the hundred tiger as his shot was missed.

The Tiger King short questions answers

Q1. Who is the writer of the story The Tiger King ? Ans: Kalki is the writer of the story The Tiger king.

Q2. Who is the Tiger king ? 

Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur is the Tiger King.

Q3. Why does the Tiger king get this name ? 

Ans: As the king was mad about killing tigers and even had killed a hundred tigers he got his name.

Q4. What is the natural desire amonh men regarding the Tiger king ? 

Ans: The natural desire among men regarding the Tiger king is to meet him for his indomitable courage.

Q5. Why can the natural desire to meet the Tiger king not be fulfilled ? 

Ans: The natural desire to meet the Tiger King couldn't be fulfilled because the king was dead.

Q6. What does the astrologer foretell about the king ? 

Ans: The astrologer foretold that the king would be killed by tiger.

Q7. What did the chief astrologer caution the Tiger king after he had killed his first tiger ? 

Ans: After the Tiger king had killed his first tiger the chief astrologer cautioned that the king might kill ninety nine tigers, but he should have to be careful with the hundred tiger.

Q8. What did the chief astrologer profess to do if the Tiger king killed the hundred tiger ? 

Ans: The chief astrologer professed that if the Tiger king killed the hundreth tiger he would cut off his tuft, crop his hair shirt.tear up and set fire all his books on astrogy and he would become an insurance agent.

Q9. What was the price of the wooden toy tiger ? 

Ans: The price of the wooden toy tiger was only two annas and a quater.

Q10. How much did the Maharaja pay for the toy ? 

Ans: The Maharaja paid three hundred rupees for the toy.

The Tiger King additional questions answers

Q1. What did the royal infant utter in his little squeaky voice ? 

Ans: The royal infant utter in his little squeaky voice that no one needs any prediction for death for we all know one who takes birth, dies one day, But the astrology will make some sense if that could tell him the manner of his death.

Q2. What explanation was given by the chief astrologer to the query of the little Tiger king ? Ans: The explanation that the chief astrologer gave to the query of the little Tiger King was that the Tiger King was born in the hour of the bull. As the bull and the tiger are enemies hence the king's death would come from the tiger.

Q3. What did the Tiger king pronounce when he heard that his death would be caused by a tiger ? 

Ans: When the Tiger King heard that his death would be caused by a tiger, he had a deep growl and with terrific words he asked the tigers to beware.

Q4. What easier to find than tigers, after the Tiger king killed ninety nine tiger ? 

Ans: The Tiger king was carried on with his vow. To prove the prediction of the chief astrologer wrong,he started killing tigers. After killing the ninety ninth tiger, The Tiger King became restless to complete his vow. He was searching for the hundreth tiger. At that time he told that it was easier to find tiger's milk than a live tiger.

Q5. Who were Khader Milan Saheb and Virasami Naiker ? 

Ans: Khader Mian Saheb and Virasami Naiker are the Tiger King's courtiers who were famous for their ability to eat a whole sheep at a time.

Q6. What was the happy news for the Tiger king after a long time ? 

Ans: The Tiger king awaited for the hundred tiger for a very long time. But sometime later he got a good news that in his own state sheep began to disappear frequently from a hillside village. And everyone suspected it to be tiger.

The Tiger King long questions answers

Q1. Why was there no objection to the killing of tiger ? 

Ans: When the Tiger King was born,the chief astrologer had predicted that he would be killing by the tiger. And when the king grew up and came to know about it, he thought for his defence and security and then he decided to kill the tigers so that the tigers could not kill him. He also knew the old saying, You may kill even a cow in self defence. So he thought that there could certainly be no objection to killing tigers in self defence.

Q2. What were the various dangers faced by the Tiger king in his hunting spree ? 

Ans: The Tiger king faced many dangers in his hunting spree. Sometimes when he missed the target lept upon him and he had to fight with the beast with his bare hands. At one time he was even in danger of losing his throne. A high ranking British officer, who was very fond of tiger hunting,came to visit Pratibandapuram. But the Tiger king didnot give permission to the  officer. And for that reason, that high ranking officer got angry with the king and the king was in danger of losing his kingdom.

Q3. What did the Maharaja do to appease the British officer whom he prevented from hunting tigers ? 

Ans: Maharaja had to appease the British officer whom he prevented from hunting tigers in his state Maharaja had deliberation over this issue with his dewan. They dispatched a telegram to a famous British company  of jwellers in Calcutta,and asked them to send some samples of diamond ring. Some fifty rings were sent and Maharaja sent all fifty rings to the British officers good lady. But the lady accepted all of them. Though the Maharaja lost three lakh rupees but he managed to retained his kingdom.

Q4. What will happen to the astrologer when the king thought that the prophecy has disproved ? 

Ans: No harm will be done to the astrologer, because the king had challenged the astrologer when he was angry. But now as he believes that he had completed his vow, he must be very much happy and would forgive the astrologer. No, the prophecy was not indisputably disproved because the king was not successful in killing the hundreth tiger as his shot has missed. The tiger only became unconcious, but the king thought he had killed it and left the place. It was his hunter only who had killed the tiger.

Q5. How did the Tiger king finally die ? 

Ans: The prediction that the chief astrologer made, came true. Maharaja wanted to give something special to his little son on his third birthday. He searched for something special everywhere in the shopping centre of Pratibandapuram. Finally he found a wooden tiger in a toy shop and thought it to be perfect gift for his son. He bought that and gave that to his son. The toy was made by some unskilled carpenter that had a rough surface and pierced the Tiger King's hand while he was playing with the toy with his son. Thus the infection spread all over the hand of the king. Three famous surgeons were brought from Madras to operate the king but the king died.

Q6. Draw a sketch of the character of the Tiger king ? 

Ans: The Tiger king of Pratibandapuram Sir Jilani Jung Jung Bahadur had got many names. But he was well known as the Tiger King. When he was born,the chief astrologer predicted that the king would be killed by the tiger.

The king grew up in the palace. He was provided the milk of an English cow. An english nanny brought him up. He was taught english by an english teacher and he had seen only the english movie.

When he was twenty years old,he took to reign his kingdom. He started his campaign of tiger hunting,and within ten years he had killed seventy tigers. Then he married a girl of a state which had a large tiger population, so that he can complete his vow of killing hundred tigers. Thus he had killed the hundredth tiger too,but it was actually killed by his hunters.

The king was very much concerned for his state also. Once he even gave a bribe of three lakh to a british officer to retain his kingdom. While he was campaigning the tiger hunting, he once declared a three year examption from all taxes for the villagers who informed him about having a tiger in their village.

The Dewan, who had always helped and obeyed the king in everything was threatened by the king when he was not able to find the hundreth tiger.

The Tiger king had to die because of a cut that he got from a wooden toy tiger. And thus the prediction of the chief astrologer happened to come true, the hundredth tiger took its revenge and killed the king.

Q7. Describe the irony regarding the death of the Maharaja ? 

Ans: The end of the story " The Tiger King " is very much ironical. The author gives a very brilliant flavour of irony while describing the manner of the king's death. The Maharaja who had killed ninety nine tigers and was only one step ahead to complete his vow. But his Dewan managed the hundredth tiger for the king. After shooting the hundredth tiger, the king thought that he had killed that actually fainted and fell down and which was actually killed by his hunters. The king was killed by a wooden toy tiger. It is very much ironical that he had killed ninety nine tigers, but one toy tiger had taken revenge upon the king.One of silvers of wood pierced the right hand of the king and caused infection, which ultimately brought his death.

The Tiger King extra questions answers

Q1. Why was it celebration time for all the tigers inhabiting in Pratibandapuram ? 

Ans: It was celebration time for all the tigers inhabiting in Pratibandapuram because the state banned tiger hunting by anyone except the Tiger King himself. A proclamation was also issued that if anyone dared to even fling a stone at a tiger, all his wealth and property would be confiscated.

Q2. How was the king feeling after killing the hundreth tiger ? 

Ans: The Tiger king totally filled with joy when he thought that he had literally killed the hundredth tiger . He was even more happy at the thought that his vow was fulfilled. He was overjoyed for the danger of his life was gone for ever. And he thought that he would give all of his attention to his family and his son and his kingdom from the time onwards.

Q3. What plan did the king make when the tiger population in his state became extinct ? 

Ans: When the tiger population in his state became extinct and he had left thirty more tigers to kill to fulfill his vow, The Tiger king planned that he would marry in a royal family whose state has a number of tiger population, so that he could complete his vow.

Q4. Why and when did the Maharaja's anxiety reach a fever pitch ? 

Ans: The Maharaja was determined to complete his vow. Therefore he started hunting tigers. In that due course he happened to kill ninety nine tigers successfully. There was only one tiger left to be killed. But by that time tiger population in his state became extinct and even in his father in law's kingdom too. It became impossible to find a tiger anywhere. Even it seemed that tiger's milk was easier to find than a real tiger. For all these reasons the king's anxiety reached a fever pitch.

Q5. What did the British officers secretary tell the Maharaja ? 

Ans: The British officer's secretary sent a message to the Maharaja through his Dewan, saying that Maharaja need not give him permission to kill tigers, the Maharaja himself could do the actual killing but he should let the secretary to get himself photograph holding a gun standing over the tigers carcass

Q6. Why did the Dewan warn the Maharaja not to double the land tax forthwith ? 

Ans: When the Maharaja ordered to double the land tax out of his anger, His Dewan warned him not to do that. Because that might make the people rise in revolt. Then as result, their state would fall a prey to the Indian National Congress.

Q7. What were the other dangers that the king faced apart from the danger of losing his kingdom while his tiger hunt ? 

Ans: Apart from the danger of losing his kingdom, the Tiger King faced several other dangers in his mission of tiger hunt. Sometimes when his bullet missed the target, the tiger had leapt to the king and he had to fight with it with bare hands.

Q8. What did the Dewan do to save his job ? 

Ans: Maharaja was very much excited to kill the hundredth tiger. He waited a lot of time to kill it. But his anxiety had reached a fever pitch. He was very much angry as the hundredth tiger was yet to be killed and it was not showing up. Even the Dewan also had got scolded by the king. He got to know that he could lose his job if the tiger was not found. And therefore,bhe brought a tiger from the People's Park in Madras and kept hidden in his house. Then, at midnight he dragged the tiger to the forest where the Tiger King was waiting for the hundredth tiger.

The Tiger King important questions answers

Q1. Who is the Tiger king ? 

Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is known as the Tiger king.

Q2. Why does the Tiger king get his name ? 

Ans: The Maharaja of Pratibandapuram is known by various name. He is identified as his Highness Jamadar General, Khiledar Major, Sata Vyaghra Samhari, Maharaja Visva Bhubana etc. But this name is shortened to the Tiger king.

 
He gets this name as he was the ruler of a tiger dominated area and his main goal was to kill hundredth tigers.

Q3. What did the chief astrologer predict about the Tiger king ? 

Ans: When the astrologers foretold that one day the Tiger king would have to die, a miracle took place. The ten day old royal infant spoke clearly and firmly in a squeaky voice about the prediction. Then the chief astrologer predicted that the death of the Tiger King would come from a tiger because he was born in the hour of the bull. The bull and the tiger are enemies.

Q4. How did the Tiger king celebrate the killing of the hundredth tiger ? 

Ans: The Tiger King was overwhelmed with joy when he killed the hundredth tiger. To celebrate his victory, he ordered his men to bring the tiger to the capital in a grand procession. The tiger was buried and a tomb was erected over it.