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Kashmir to remain an independent state, but the state’s geographic location made this impossible. Kashmir was positioned on the border of India and Pakistan. While Singh was holing out, Kashmir was invaded in August of 1947 by armed raiders from the North West Frontier province and by troops from the Pakistani Army. Singh was forced to seek military protection from India, and the Indian-Pakistani War of 1947 was underway. The Pakistani forces entered Kashmir quickly by defeating Singh’s weak…

They introduced the democratic system which was unsuitable for Muslims of India . Hindus thought that Muslims were not a separate nation they are just a minority. And they also thought that they did not have any political , economic , cultural rights. And also only they should ruled the Muslims. The extremist Hindus made life a misery for Muslims of India. The Muslims were deprived of their rights Muslims were robbed of their properties and homes . There was no…

the course of her article, she asks whether the book can be called a postcolonial text. Because it displays that “the community, its beliefs and rituals are in no sense disrupted by the history of British colonialism nor its continuing presence in India”. (Tiffin: 205) Riemenschneider disagrees with the point raised by her, and writes that the presence of British Bubo (a disease) and the ration shops cannot be side-lined while talking about the postcoloniality.…

GITHA HARIHARAN AS A POST-MODERN INDIAN WOMAN ENLGISH NOVELIST/ Dr. P. SATYANARAYANA, Vice-Principal, Balaji College of Education, Anantapuramu, A.P. India. Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the novels of Githa Hariharan, basing on Theme and Technique. There a quite a large number of novels that use mythical events, characters and motifs as narrative strategies. The use of the Sita myth in Githa Hariharan’s ‘The Thousand Faces of Night’ focuses on the tragic predicament of Indian Women. In…

In the beginning of 20th century India was imbued with the spirit of patriotism. The people were coming out of their houses; even the women were also taking active part in struggle for freedom under the influence of Mahatma Gandhi. He was a man of action. He practiced what he preached. When he asked the people to speak the truth, he himself became the embodiment of truth. He spoke the truth, whatever the cost. The acknowledged his weakness by writing “My Experiments with Truth”. He believed in…

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fluctuating due to the expectations. Initially the author doesn’t want to shoot him as “the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow”(2). Even after the the crowd pressures him, he won’t shoot the elephant due to “that preoccupied grandmotherly air that elephants have.” However the imagery of him “pursued, caught, trampled on and reduced to a grinning corpse like that Indian up the hill”(3), causes him to say that there is only one alternative. The final alternative is to shoot the…

The Wasp and the Echo: The Oneness with Everything In A Passage to India, E. M. Foster explores various conflicts between the Indian and the English in a dramatic setting. Foster is a master of realism; however, what walks side by side with the realistic plots like the trial and the friendship is the mysticism, which reflects Foster’s extraordinary ability to grasp the essence of the Oriental spirit. Realistic descriptions in many colonial literary works sometimes cannot suffice to present the…

Orientalism. THE WASHINGTON POST stated that Heat and Dust is written in a highly technical skill, by representing the Anglo-Indian relationships which remind us of E.M. Forster's masterpiece, A Passage to India. Jhabvala and Forester illustrate the relationship between the East and West in India affected by the predominance of the British Raj. Furthermore the characters correspond: Olivia Rivers fits to Adela Quested, the Nawab fits to Dr. Aziz. THE LONDON TIMES has reported: "This is a book of…

HOMECOMING FROM ‘SOCIETY’ TO ‘SELF’: A READING OF SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THAT LONG SILENCE T. Akki Raju, Asst. Professor of English, RRDS Govt. Degree College, Bhimavaram & Prof. K. Ratna Shiela Mani, Dept. of English, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur. Abstract The paper is an attempt to explore how Shashi Deshpande portrays the ambivalent attitude of the educated, Indian women through Jaya, the central character in That Long Silence. Jaya’s journey from ‘self’ to ‘society’ and from ‘society’…