Partition of India

The history of India and its neighbouring countries, Pakistan and Bangladesh, is a rich and luminous tale as it encompasses the countless successes and hardships each country experienced during its development as independent entities. In 2012, Deepa Mehta, an Indo-Canadian film director with a screenplay by Salman Rushdie, a British Indian novelist, produced the film “Midnight’s Children.” Together they brought to the screen a magical yet historical tale on the partition of India, Pakistan and…

noble but ill-fated idea whose economic implications are felt in the impoverished nation of India…

The war that I have decided to focus on for the purposes of my paper is the India-Pakistan war, more specifically the war of 1971. India and Pakistan have always been confronting each other due to their opposing ethnic, religious and political differences. The war of 1971 was the third war between India and Pakistan and the origins of this war were different from previous wars. Since the partition of British India and Pakistan in 1947 there have always been constant conflict and tension. The…

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…

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 on the bank of river Sutlej named “Mano Majra”. Like Mano Majra…

Delhi. Little did he know, in just minutes Nathuram Godse would fire three bullets, successfully ending Gandhi’s life. Gandhi’s assassination is justified because of his standpoints on Indian politics and attempting to unify Hindus and Muslims in India; however, Gandhi was peaceful and fair towards both Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi can be viewed as a manipulative leader when it comes to teaching his goals. Leading up to India’s independence, Gandhi made a “deal with the devil”: he assisted the…

On October 2 1869, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India. As his mother was devoted to religion, his lifestyle was heavily impacted on by teachings of mutual tolerance non-injury toward living things and the practise of vegetarianism, coming from the beliefs of Jainism. His father being Chief Minister of Porbandar, meant that Gandhi was fortunate enough to be born into a high caste of Indian society. Gandhi received a thorough education however proved to perform no better than…

its partition in 1947. The people of East Pakistan struggled for political and cultural autonomy and subsequently demanded independence. It was not only their story to tell but also that of the surrounding states and international powers which had vested interests in the politics of the region. Through the course of this paper, I develop the importance of various incidents in the lead up to the liberation of the eastern wing from its oppressive western counterpart and discuss why the partition…

Veils of Pretence and Hypocrisy in Manto’s Selected Short Stories Priyanka Gupta Dr. Neeru Sharma Research Scholar Assistant Professor…

was highly disputed, and it led to many small skirmishes in the area. Simultaneously in Kashmir, Pakistan feared that the Indians were spreading their political influence in Kashmir, and the Muslim population did not want to be under Hindu control. India had just recently finish a war with China in northern Kashmir in which the Indians lost thousands of men in the mountains of Kashmir. The Chinese victory showed the Pakistani government that the Indians were not prepared for war, and the Indian…