Bengal

Over the semester in Human Geography we’ve been learning about other geographical locations all over the world, especially in Asia. How countries have gotten they way they have to this day has been through trade, human movement and political and cultural influences that spread out in a span of over hundreds of years. The creations of states and countries are created through cultural differences and political influences; however there are many arguments over how those paths are created through…

survive on a lifeboat with a bengal tiger, while trying to stay hydrated and…

Imperialism from Cambridge University to explain the theory of the Indian Mutiny. The Indian Mutiny was a serious of revolts across India against their British leaders at the time. The first revolt took place during May 1857, where Indian soldiers of the Bengal army shot their British officers, and marched on Delhi (Marshall, 2011). This mutiny was the first of many, those soldiers actions encouraging numerous more rebellions across India. These series of revolts lasted from May 1857 to July…

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi documents the life of a young man who survives 227 days adrift the vast Pacific Ocean with a tiger on a life boat. Piscine Molitar Patel (Pi for short), was a simple but bright young man who was born to an Indian family. While growing up in Pondicherry India, Pi’s father maintained and operated a zoo, where he was let to roam the zoo and interact with animals and staff. Yet, due to India’s Political unrest, Pi’s family decided to move to Canada and in order to do so they…

Introduction Life of Pi is situated against the tumultuous time of Indian history known as the Emergency. Life of Pi is suffused by a pervasive liminality. The teenaged Pi is in movement between mainlands, in the middle of religions, and in the middle of youth and adulthood, which implies that the novel is likewise a bildungsroman. The story is a kinder, more hopeful decision contrasted with the more "sensible" story. Pi is content with his life living in the zoo with his crew. He grows up…

Arousal of Political Realism in Mahasweta Devi’s “MOTHER OF 1084” Abstract Political realism has generally related to the actual or correct picture of events and most classically in the region of literature, art, and film. In Mother of 1084Sujata, the central figure is a misfit in her own family. Though she is well aware of the corrupt degenerated values represented by her husband Dibyanath, she fails to disconnect herself with them and leads a compromising life. She loves her younger son, Brati…

When he ascended the throne, only Punjab and Bengal came under Mughal rule. By the end of Akbar’s period, the empire had engulfed Afghanistan, Bengal and Rajasthan areas near the Godavari River in the south. He practices the arts of mechanics, and practiced making guns and perfecting the cannons. He prided himself in being versatile in talent and…

two ideas, Religious belief and spirituality through the use of literary techniques. Yann Martel’s novel, Life of Pi, awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2002, follows sixteen year old Pi Patel on a journey across the Pacific Ocean in the company of a Bengal Tiger, Richard Parker. The book is split into three parts, the central theme of this novel is religious belief and spirituality, and however it refrains from favouring one religion over another. Pi follows three religions, those being Islam,…

What would you do if you were stranded on a single lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with a Bengal tiger for 227 days? Would you give up? Would you fight for your life? In the book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Piscine Molitor Patel fought for his life, and was not giving up. Life of Pi is about a sixteen year old boy named Piscine Molitor Patel, who lived in Pondicherry with his family. In Pondicherry, his dad owned and ran a zoo. Then, the family decided to move to Canada for more…

the Chinese were not as interested in European goods, like Europeans were for Chinese goods. This situation created a trade imbalance between these two countries. The only way to pay China back was with silver. In 1773 , Britain took over the Bengal Province in India which at the time was a large producer of opium.British decided to start using opium as a way to dismiss the trade imbalance between Britain and China. This caused opium addiction across China and in 1839 opium brought in by…