Culture of India

Chapter 23 Margin Notes- Independence and Development in the Global South 1) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? Europe’s African and Aisian empires were distinctive compared to other cases of imperial disintegration, because no other empire had been so centralized on the ideology of mobilization of masses. None of the other empires had been an excess of nation-states, each claiming an equal place in the…

The author of A Passage to India is Edward Morgan Forster who was a British writer in 20th century. Forster’s works include six novels, two collections of short stories, several biographies and some commentaries. He had twice traveled to India, and accorded to his own experiences and feelings, wrote A Passage to India this novel. The novel tells of the early twentieth century, the British Mrs. Moore and Miss Adela traveled to India. The former visited the son of a colonial official there, while…

of Common Era, most of the societies were in their lowest stages of growths. The two prominent examples were India and Mesoamerica. Even if India and Mesoamerica have some similarity, the differences influence India to become more prominent in their society. India and Mesoamerica influence other civilization, and they form their culture similar to how Mesoamerica and India did. Both India and Mesoamerica started off with agriculture. A village like Teotihuacan or village that places along the…

Everyone has a kind of culture that helps form their views on the world. In many incidents culture is the main cause for the opinions formed to describe how people feel about the world. Although culture may not play a major role in some lives, it does heavily influence many others standpoint on situations. However when a person disregards their culture their viewpoint on the world is most liable to change at any point and time. In the personal essay “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati…

The British in A Passage to India believed that they “were necessary to India; there would certainly be bloodshed without them” (Forster 103). The Indians, on the other hand, did not feel the same way; they were being oppressed in their own country and they could do very little about improving their lack of power. The English’s strong control is epitomized when two English visitors go on a trip to the Marabar Caves with Doctor Aziz, the main character. One of the English visitors is allegedly…

about “who are Christian” and all the different diversity dazzles in the land of India. I learned that there are languages and tribes and castes by the numbers. I learned that there are a lot of religion of Hinduism, Sikhism which is a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Gura Nanak, and Buddhism is a religion in India, but it is spreading out throughout China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and Asia. India have one of the biggest Muslim population…

temple dedicated to him in India. Epics say that Pushkar floated to the surface when Brahma dropped a lotus flower on earth later this pond size town is largely associated with the few renowned sacred places of India. The rarity of the Brahma temple under this city domain renders huge significance to it. It is also considered that the famed waters of the Pushkar wash away the sins of whole life along with its consideration of treating skin diseases. Pilgrims from all over India and world come…

occupied India, there was a push for the English to hand over the power to the Indian people, one of the main leaders of this movement was Mahatma Gandhi. He protested against the British occupying Indian and stripping it of its resources all while demeaning the people who lived there and not adapting to the way of life in India. In the article titled “ Indian Home Rule,” Gandhi speaks of what would happen if the British left completely, and what they should do if they remain in India. If…

classical civilizations of the Maya and Mauryan and Gupta India were alike in that they both had a clear cut social organization due to the specialization of occupations in their societies. They differed in the economic and political collapse of their civilizations due to the fact that the downfall of the Maya was mainly due to the effects of nature, which then caused conflicts between city-states and the downfall of Mauryan and Gupta India was a result of the weak successors, internal political…

Number 2 on the list of the world’s largest populated countries, India, has a culture all its own. (U.S. CB 2005) India would have probably became the world’s largest populated country had China not lifted its multi-child ban just days ago. India is a country rich in centuries of cultural growth. Compared to India, The United States is a baby when it comes to culture. Although there is nearly quadruple the amount of people in India as there is the United States, unemployment has stayed at a…