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    Mother India or Tyrant Indira Gandhi leaves a divided legacy. To the poor she is a hero. She is Mother India, who helped the underprivileged with her social welfare programs and the mother of the Green Revolution, which helped make India self-sufficient in grain productions. For others she is the architect of the Emergency, a dark period in India’s history when democracy was suppressed and political enemies we put down or jailed. Under her rule India won a war against Pakistan…

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    This observation was probably made by the novelist as he had travelled all over India, even to the Punjab, during his service in the army. However, this is a very dispassionate description of the carnage, although its horrors have been described very graphically. He too must have been stunned by the violence and the carnage that was the culmination of the freedom struggle. Manohar Malgonkar has also drawn the attention of the reader towards the ideals which no longer hold water and the creed of…

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    Throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, European imperialism shifted and changed how India was controlled and how its people lived. The Europeans brought with them many new ideas and technologies that India had not yet been introduced to. Peace and order was established in India as well. On the other hand, almost all political and economic power had been torn from Indians and they were treated as inferior to the British. They were patronized and dehumanized by Europeans. As…

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    Buddhism Religion

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    Buddhism is next, Historians believe Buddhism was formed in northern India around the 5th century B.C.E. This custom hints that the beginning to Siddhartha Gautama, who is known as Buddha. Siddhartha saw the sorrow in the world and went to find a solution. Through meditation and study, he reached an “enlightened state” of being that marked the end of accessories, and ultimately, upon his death, issue after the “cycle of rebirth”. The Buddha's wisdoms are often condensed in the “Four Noble…

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    Partition of India when she was a young girl in 1947. Having polio-ridden, she was educated at home until age she was 15 years old, reading voraciously. Later, she completed her B.A degree from Kinnaird College for Women in Lahore. Sidhwa was married at the age of nineteen and, immediately after…

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    Oberoi Hotel Case Study

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    The headquarter is based in New Delhi in India. Its hotels in India are located at strategic and convenient places in major cities like Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Shimla, Ranthambore, Chandigarh, New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Kerala, Gurgaon and Bengaluru. At international front, Oberoi hotels are present at Lombok…

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    FOR AGES, INDIA has been seen as an image of the otherworldly and outlandish East. Releasing India as a platitude runs the genuine danger of setting India in an immortal zone outside of this present reality, which is progressively current and complex. India is an unfathomable and quickly creating nation with twenty-eight unique states and seven union regions. India has a considerable number of dialects, religions and societies, which coincide and intermix. Delhi nightfall by Wili_hybrid…

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    Race Relations Sociology

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    peoples of India were settled along the Indus River, in the Sind and Punjab regions of modern Pakistan.2 The major cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro are known for a sophistication that pre-dates the Aryan conquest that was once considered to be the beginning of true civilization in India. The reason for the collapse of the Indus River Valley civilizations are unknown but, most scholars point to natural disasters or the invasion of the Aryans. The Aryans were nomadic warriors that came to India…

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    intertextual approaches, Rushdie has problematized postmodernist representational systems of the West, specifically, its colonial and imperial discourse. Besides, his novels are interested in the study of Eastern cultural traditions and history, particularly those of India and Pakistan. As a postcolonialist writer, Rushdie attempts to deconstruct the colonial historical account of the colonizer and subvert it through the creation of another explanations and accounts. The inclusion of historical…

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    be broken down into three parts a background in the political history of India, the privation of authentic culture and the how traumatic events in the novel result in an inability to form a linear structure. Thus, the cyclical nature and the content of the novel are directly linked by post-colonialism at large. The God of Small Things provides an ideal example of the internalized struggle of Western superiority in postcolonial India, from the structure, to the content, that portrays normal…

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