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perception of people concerning the significance of the same site."(96) Taking up the example from the essay about the Jami Masjid would provide a better insight. According to a chronicle written in the mid-thirteenth century, the Sultanate city of Delhi was named "Qubbat al-Islam" and the minar was named after a sufi saint named "Qutb al-Din Bakhtiyar Kaki". These names were corrupted by the interference of the scholars who, in the middle of the nineteenth century, sought to discover the actual…

thought to be a conspiracy that was trying to destroy their religion and caste and converting them to Christianity. The production of those cartridges stopped but the trust was never restored after basically lying about what was in the cartridge. From Delhi the uprising soon spread to other army centers in the North-Western provinces and…

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Chandragupta I was the first great ruler of this dynasty who ruled from 320 AD to 335 AD. He expanded the empire by conquering kingdoms of Prayag, Magadha and Nepal. He made use of matrimonial alliances to expand the empire along the Gangetic plain. Samudragupta, the son of Chandragupta I, ascended the throne of the Gupta Empire in 335 AD and ruled till 380 AD. Samudragupta was known for his military prowess and is known as the Napoleon of India. He carried out a series of military conquests…

where the earliest inns were homes with rooms provided for travelers. Conditions improved in 1700s England when the renaissance sparked the desire to travel. The United States saw its hotel industry created a century later. By this time they had revolutionized many firsts in the industry including private rooms with locks and doors, free soap, a trained staff, and a pitcher of water in each room. Indoor plumbing and the creation of the lobby followed shortly thereafter. The business of providing…

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hard decision. There seemed to be no alternative. My sense of duty to the country led me to the further decision to remain out of focus of the power structure” (6). Doesn’t Devi echo the same feelings? To conclude one may say that A Situation in New Delhi is a novel of political dislocation on two levels, on the level of the novelist’s own life and on the level of her creation, i.e., her characters. Like a tree having its roots in the dark, deep, sense of dislocation, the novel grows into…

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“the paint on the ceiling [peeling] off in large flakes”, spiderwebs in every corner”, and a hard bed (67). Implicitly, Balram also writes that “[he] had been so happy in this room till now” meaning that Mr. Ashok’s perspective changed Balram’s. In Delhi, Balram is introduced the the ‘darkness of the light’ and the world of corruption and deceit through his masters. The day he first arrives, he is told that the embassies are “supposed to…

The story is a beautiful blend of two different stories portraying different characters in different time frames. One story is of modern Delhi youth who are totally into their tension free lives and are joined by a British girl, the other story is of India’s revolutionaries and their struggle for independence. The movie has, as its protagonist, a British girl named Sue Mckenley who comes…