Partition of India

Partition of Bengal The decision to affect the partition of Bengal was announced in July 1905, by the viceroy of India lord Curzon.it was not until February, 1905, that the government sent their final proposal to the secretary of state. They were sanctioned by Mr.Broorick, with certain modifications on June 9th, 1905 and on October 16th 1905; Bengal was divided into two provinces 1. East Bengal , and Assam with Dhaka as its capital 2. Western Bengal with Calcutta as its capital The new…

Although the British helped to modernized India, the British should apologize for the actions they took against the Indians during the Raj because the British killed and injured thousands of people, who were not fighting back, promote tensions between Hindu and Muslim that promoted violence, and did not care about what was best for the Indian population. A group of Indians were in an enclosed courtyard practicing peaceful protest, when a British military officer was told to shut the protest down…

Meenakshi Mukherjee in the essay “Maps and Mirrors: Co-ordinates of Meaning in The Shadow Lines” makes this observation: The grandmother’s expectation of the border between India and East Pakistan grew indirectly out of her experience of the territorial division she had witnessed in childhood. When the ancestral home was divided, the brothers insisted on their rights with a lawyer-like precision so that the dividing line went through doorways and the brothers even partitioned their father’s…

Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film directed by Richard Attenborough. It follows the struggle for Indian Independence through the eyes - and only through the eyes - of eminent leader, Mohandas K. Gandhi. The film is prejudiced. It brings about the idea that Independence was achieved by Gandhi alone, while undermining the roles of others who, it could be argued, played far greater roles in achieving Indian autonomy. The film’s narrow-minded focus on Gandhi and his beliefs also meant that those of…

relationship, illicit relationships, the plight of refugee’s in New Delhi in the period of partition. In another novel, The Nature of Passion (1956), the struggle of a modern young girl Nimmi, with the age-old tradition and custom is depicted. Her urge for women’s emancipation is highlighted in the novel. The failure of marriage between an Englishman and Indian girl is portrayed in the novel Esmond in India (1958). The woman’s submissive nature, the relationship of husband and wife, the…

effects of fear on memory, the connection between the past and the present in narrator’s own identity, the life story of an Indian boy there and in London. The crucial and historical events like communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka, World War II, Partition of India, and Swadeshi Movement that occurred in 1980s are recalled by the narrator and these memories traumatize the narrator. The aspect of cosmopolitanism is found in the character of Ila. The protagonist is exactly the opposite of Ila who…

Indian civil rights. Gandhi then makes a speech urging that all Indians must resist the new laws in a non-violent manner. This principle is seen when Gandhi rallies many Indian miners, only to be put down by the British. Later, Gandhi travels across India. He witnesses the poverty everywhere firsthand.…

personally I found that it had a lot to do with the cast issue and its superiority, religious oppressions and traditional and cultural beliefs. With this being mentioned I believe that the partition was caused by lack of the appreciation of our culture and tradition followed by religious beliefs. In my view India should have never separated if we as Indians came together and tackled the small issues we were dealing with before they got out of hand like they did. Most of us at the Honourable…

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…

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…