“Playing British Gods under the ceiling fans of the Faletlis Hotel – behind Queen Victoria’s gardened skirt – the Radcliffe Commission deals out Indian cities like a pack of cards …… A new nation is born. India has been divided after all.” (Sidhwa 140) The available histories of Partition are often tainted with patriotic bias or discuss political events rather than the experiences of people on the ground. This is perhaps because a nation – state most often sets down its own version of
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Gujarat University Syllabus for Choice Based Credit System Master of Arts For the Academic Year 2012-2013 & Until further notice 1 Design and structure of the Course: 2012-2013‚2013-2014‚2014-2015 Department English Se mes ter I No. ENG401 ENG402 ENG403 ENG404 ENG405 ENG406S English II ENG407 ENG408 ENG409 ENG410EA ENG410EB ENG411EA ENG411EB ENG412S English English III IV ENG501 ENG502 ENG503 ENG504EA ENG504EB ENG505EA ENG505EB
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS AS LITERATURE IN ENGLISH: SYLLABUS 9695 NOTES FOR TEACHERS ON STORIES SET FOR STUDY FROM STORIES OF OURSELVES: THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT STORIES IN ENGLISH FOR EXAMINATION IN JUNE AND NOVEMBER 2010‚ 2011 AND 2012 CONTENTS Introduction: How to use these notes 1. The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe 2. The Open Boat Stephen Crane 3. The Door in the Wall HG Wells 4. The People Before Maurice
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INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE OF QUASI CONTRACTS:- Under the general heading of the Quasi contract there has been grouped a number of cases which have little or no affinity with contract. A simple illustration is afforded by the action to recover money paid by mistake. If the plaintiff on an erroneous interpretation of the facts‚ pays to the defendant a sum of money which he does not really owe‚ law‚ no less than justice‚ will require he defendant to restore it. But his obligation is manifestly not
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Working Paper No. 18 Struggle to Acculturate in the Namesake: A Comment on Jhumpa Lahiri ’s Work as Diaspora Literature! Mahesh Bharatkumar Bhatt GJ!jarat Arts &Science College‚ Ellisbridge‚ Ahmedabad Abstract The aim of the paper is to bringforth the wqy in which Jhllmpa Lahiri‚ a Plllitzer prize winner novelist explores the dilemma of name and immigrant ’s sense of identity and belongingness in the novel The Namesake. The paper discllsses the term ’diaspora: and their role in the present
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The separation/A divided legacy/Bridging partition/ Freedom of midnight/The great migration. MAHEK PATEL The partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics. This led to the creation of the sovereign states of the
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OF STEPHEN HAWKING AND HISTORY OF TIME It is the ultimate irony that the “finest mind alive” today is a mind held captive in a speechless‚ dying and withering body! It is the mind of Stephen Hawking – world’s leading Cosmologist and most brilliant and original theoretical physicist. Presently the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge‚ he has been proclaimed as the greatest genius of the late 20th century. Yet‚ as he lies limp in his wheel-chair‚ weighing only 38 kilos and not even
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Abstract: This thesis examines Deepa Mehta’s trilogy—Water‚ Earth‚ Fire—and the trilogy’s exploration and contestation of colonial‚ anti-colonial nationalist‚ and religious ideologies as intersecting with patriarchal norms to enact symbolic and actual violence on the bodies of women. I argue that Mehta’s trilogy foregrounds the ways in which patriarchal nationalism legitimizes violence against women’s bodies and sexualities through different social and cultural practices and discourses which are
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Polity‚ Constitution and Social Issues Polity & Constitution Constitution of India is the supreme law of India. It lays down the framework defining fundamental political principles‚ establishing the structure‚ procedures‚ powers and duties‚ of the government and spells out the fundamental rights‚ directive principles and duties of citizens. Passed by the Constituent Assembly on 26 November 1949‚ it came into effect on 26 January 1950. The date 26 January was chosen to commemorate the declaration
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