in the village he cunningly insults him with irrelevant questions Where is your beard Mian Poverty The novelist describes the poverty of the village people They don t have enough food They struggle to survive in poverty Majeed is the muezzin of a mosque of Madhupur in Garo Hill One day he learns about Mahabbatnagar from a government official Then he feels this place is not sufficient for his existence So he leaves Garo Hill for the betterment of food and shelter He leaves with A Kurta a couple of old Lungis two thin towels and a small much-thumped Koran Religious Superstitions Through this novel the novelist tries to show the superstitions of rural Bengal people The villagers believe in religion but don't have enough knowledge about it A famous quotation from Waliullah There are more tupees than heads of cattle more tupees than sheaves of grass Majeed takes advantage of their religious blindness He entraps them using religion and the people blindly believe him In the name of religion he starts to exploit them He establishes a Mazar and says You have earned God s gratitude He becomes successful in gaining worldly affairs and pleasure He uses religion as an investment This shrewd man imposes his own generated thoughts on the ignorant village people He also takes revenge on those who go against him The villagers get treatment from the Pir rather than going to a doctor They believe in Mazar and its spiritual power They seek help from the Pir in any kind of problem Male Dominating Society The society depicted in this novel is completely dominated by men Women are like lifeless objects They are neglected in every sphere of life They are treated like servants to the men It is established that women are born to be slaves of men and please God No one cares about their feelings or emotions In the novel Jamila is the best paradigm of the social victim Majeed marries her at a young age He wants to dominate her and kills her at the end of the novel So Male dominating society is the central element in this novel Child Marriage and Polygamy Child marriage is a common picture in rural areas Waliullah shows this social issue through the marriage of Jamila and Majeed Jamila is a very young girl She gets married to a man of middle age Jamila is the second wife of Majeed He marries her because his first wife is unable to give birth to a child In conclusion we can say that the novel Tree Without Roots is the best paradigm of the social picture of rural Bengal Here Syed Waliullah represents contemporary social issues like child marriage religious superstition male-dominated society literacy and poverty He also reveals the rebellious character Jamila who raises his hand against religious superstition and male-dominated society