The Reasons for the Partition of India Essay

The Circle of Reason, (1986) published in 1986,very much written in Rushdie’s magical realist mode, attempts to recover a continuing tradition of cultural exchange for India westwards across the Indian ocean to the Gulf states and Egypt. The Shadow Lines, (1988) his second novel is a major addition to the Indian novel in English, which deals with relations between the different arms of a prospering brahmin family, the Datta Chaudhuris, displaced from Dhaka to Calcutta by the Partition. In an…

another place for some length of time or permanently including different types of voluntary movements. It has great impact on social, cultural, economic and psychological life of people. In India the labour migration is mostly influenced by social structures and pattern of development. Uneven development is the main reason of migration along with factors like poverty, landholding system, and fragmentations of land, lack of employment opportunities, large family-size and natural calamities.…

Throughout the history of mankind, conflicts and uprising turmoils are quite common among the power nations of the world.However, major disputes transition into revolts and antagonisms of government sectors, which marks the beginning of revolutions.The book “Anatomy of Revolution” written by Crane Brinton models the stages of revolution through examining patterns and commonalities between the major revolutions of history. He categorized causes and symptoms of revolution in the first stage to…

A Brief note on Nationality: According to my perception, nationality means belongingness to a particular nation by birth or by nationalization, it also comprise when people have common tradition, culture, values, ethics, origin or often a nation. For example, immigrants of same nationality often seek out for each other, this usually defines their sense of nationality and belongingness. Nationality is also considered as a legal relationship between a state and a person, and nationality usually…

In Salman Rushdie’s story Midnight’s Children, offers an overview of events in India immediately following the nation gaining independence in 1947. Within the context of the novel, The Midnight Children are the inheritors of India’s lasting promise, and the evidence of its lasting strength. They each have an unusual power, which not only provides them protection, but more broadly signals India’s ability to rise, in a post-colonial era. It is their magic, that becomes the strongest thread for…

Religious difference was the core of two nation theory.Muslims needed a state where they can practice their religion without other forces trying to create problems for them . Two nation theory origin started when first muslim came in subcontinent .Muslims follow islam and Hindus follow Hinduism. These two religions are not different side of same coin instead they are different coins . The religion of Muslims (Islam) follows tauheed means they believe in One God (Allah) while hindus believe in…

works on partition. While writing the novel, the writer has quite objectively treated the event, without blaming a community or religious minority for it. He has tried to stay away from the blame. “Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame”. According to him, “The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stubbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped”. Though there are numerous works written on partition but Train…

A study held in Kolkata, India shared many reasons why women consent to sell their body and aren’t a victim of coercion. Many women say sex trafficking has given them more freedom to their life. In India, men are very much in control and overseeing their own body gave the women a sense of freedom they had never experienced. Other women participate in sex trafficking…

Article 370 The partition of Bharat was based on the two nation theory. Insertion of Article 370 and the provision of special status for J&K is the corollary of the two nation theory. The ongoing armed insurgency or militarization of Islamic fundamentalism in Kashmir is the fall out of the two-nation theory. If the justification of Article 370 and special status for Kashmir underscores the need of protecting the interests of J&K Muslim majority vis-a-vis Hindu dominated Bharat, the same…

"On the estates, Indians were assigned barrack-type quarters; many times the same barracks used to house the formerly enslaved Africans. Each room of the barrack building measured 10 feet square and 8 to 10 feet high and the partitions between rooms did not reach the roof, so that there was a total lack of privacy. Ventilation was often inadequate. Each such room accommodated either a married couple and their children or two to four single adults." (Singh, 2013) The Indians were…