Describe the fate of Ghashiram’s daughter and the role Ghashiram plays in her ruin and death.
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Ghashiram is an offspring of a specific social situation. The character, Ghashiram comes in search of fortune to Pune with his wife and daughter. He becomes the victim of power structure in the beginning of the play when he is wrongly abused of theft and thrown to prison. Later he uses his patriarchal power over his daughter and submits her to Nana Phadnavis in exchange of political power. Right from the first entry of Ghashiram into the city of Pune he has a longing to combine himself with the corrupt power structures of Pune. This is evident in the scene when Nana dances erotically with the courtesans, his ankles sprain and Ghashiram waiting for a chance to find legitimate position clutches the opportunity to curry favour to Nana’s predicaments and offers his back as a support for Nana thus literally suggesting the carrying of Nana’s sexual follies on his back. It is focused that it is for the sexual folly that Ghashiram is able to be use to Nana