Indian Peafowl

Plot and settings of “Train to Pakistan” “Train to Pakistan” is written by “Khushwant Singh”. It was published in 1956. This novel based on partition. The novel began with the description of weather. It was the summer of 1947 and was hotter and longer than usual. People started thinking that it was the punishment of their sins. Bloodshed and riots were at peak due to the air of partition of India. The settings of this novel based on a small imaginary village near the north southern part of India…

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 The Bhagwat Gita. He led a simple life and tried to purge the Indian society of the evil of caste system. His dress was minimal, his requirements were the bare necessities and he preferred spiritual poise over materialism. He bore no ill will towards…

nation and analyze its text The dis¬courses or narratives written then and later address the issues of the 'new' nation-mapping of territorial spaces, the re¬grouping of communities, peoples, cultures, languages into a homogenous identity of being Indian and belonging to India. Within this text of national identity runs the sub-text of centrality and marginality. The schemes of the nation include or exclude people, communities from its centre space. In this article I will attempt to look at the…

to the foreign power in the first half of the nineteenth century. However, as tensions rose between the two entities, nationalist attitudes emerged to justify the arguments on both sides of the struggle. The United States’ perpetual infringement of Indian sovereignty inspired both sentiments of opposition and reluctant submission within the indigenous nation. Stemming from religious and governmental assimilation policies, the law’s bias against the Cherokees in their efforts to keep their…

The Seven Years’ War was one that had two imperialist superpowers engaged in battle over territory in North America. While Britain and France were the two major countries at play, other countries became involved through alliances, causing the war to become a possibility for the first global war. Nevertheless, the war’s main focus was in North America. Native American tribes were also involved such as the Algonquins, who sided with the French in battle; the Iroquois alongside the American…

To take something and claim it as yours, when you never owned it in the first place...the United States government and public supporters sought to justify the removal of Cherokee Indians in the 1820 and 1830s, and tried to move them west of the Mississippi river. Big supporters like Lewis Cass and the state of Georgia played a big role in justifying the removal. Lewis Cass wrote essays to support, and Georgia told the Cherokees to either abide by Georgia law, or get out. United States and…

Washington’s war crave started when we signed up as a little boy for the “Virginia Volunteers” he fought Indians and then enlisted a soldier. Washington first military battle was the French and Indian War, and he was one of the few survivors. Also, the French and Indian War was known as “the first World War in all of human history” and it is significant that the founder of our country was able to take part in the war. George Washington…

The British would eventually win over the French and ultimately take their land and displace the Indians who helped the French. As most know, all wars will have a cost. Whether it is money or lives, someone must pay. The French and Indian War caused a spike in British debt, from seventy-five million pounds to almost one-hundred and thirty three million pounds. The British crown blamed this on the colonists, since…

considerable agitation and discontent among the Indians.(13) Those Iroquois who had participated in the Fort Stanwix treaty and had signed away most of the Seneca lands met with an angry reception upon their return to their villages.(14) In addition, by dealing with the Iroquois tribes individually rather than as a political alliance, the United States had dismissed their assertions of a confederacy operating independently from that of the Ohio Valley Indians.” (15) The Continental Congress…

The Age of Jefferson and Jackson had many similarities as well as differences in the cultural realms. Both of them being democratic gave them similar, but at the same time contrasting views. As the third president of the US, Thomas Jefferson did much for his people. Prohibiting slave importation during his second term and adding the 12th Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson worked hard to improve life for Americans. He wrote the Declaration of Independence, found the…