even raising a sword. By his death‚ without so much as a penny to his name‚ he won the respect of leaders around the world and of the people he helped. Mohandas Gandhi‚ christened Mahatma meaning "great soul"‚ was the leading figure in the Independence of India. Gandhi‚ raised from a middle-class family‚ was sent to study law in England. Growing up with his crowd‚ Gandhi knew very little of discrimination until he faced it heads on. Gandhi went to South Africa to practice law and faced his
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FOR THE MAHATMA deals with the story of a young man named Sriram whose life revolves round the influence of Mahatma on him during the years of Indian Freedom Struggle. In his age of twenty he meets a girl named Bharati‚ an ardent Gandhi follower and was collecting money for some funds. Her life is pretty much revolving around Gandhiji and his movement. By presenting Mahatma realistically in town Narayan has portrayed a concrete
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Bibliography: 1. Singh‚ Jaswant. Jinnah: India—Partition—Independence. New Delhi: Rupa & Co‚ 2009. 2. Bolitho‚ Hector. Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan. London: John Murray‚ 1954. 3. Ahmed‚ Akbar. Jinnah‚ Pakistan and Identity. London: Routledge‚ 1997. 4. Wolpert‚ Stanley. Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny. New York:
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a black n white photograph Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949)‚ the ’Nightingale of India‚’ is remembered as a leading woman nationalist leader of India’s political struggle for independence. Born in 1879 as Sarojini Chattopadhyay and one of the brightest students in school‚ she blossomed into a writer of passionate verses on a variety of themes. Her works on poetry are The Golden Threshold‚ published in 1905; The Feather of the Dawn; The Bird of Time‚ published in 1912‚ and The Broken Wing‚ published
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Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (A Study On Postcolonial Innovations) A Thesis Presented to the Department of Literature College of Nursing In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement in Literature 101 World Literatures Tan‚ John Ryan N. March 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Acknowledgement………………………………………………………………………………3 CHAPTER 1 The Problem and its background A: Introduction………………………………………………………………………
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Whereas Mao was influenced primarily by Western ideologies‚ Ghandi based the Indian revolution within a mix of Hindu and Western influences. First and foremost to Ghandi was the idea of Indian Nationalism and the strong sense of being exclusively Indian‚ a romantic notion also preached by Henry David Thoreau. When Thoreau speaks of an American government that he wishes was less controlling‚ he insists‚ “The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it
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dark social climate of post-partition Indian subcontinent reflected an innate sense of human helplessness towards darkness that prevailed in society. The tragedy of partition is brought into focus by his works. Manto’s life and works serve as a mirror to capture the human element of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British Raj. This paper draws on Manto’s stories‚ characters and incidents to paint an image of the Indian subcontinent during partition and to personify
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independent of "civilization" provided "the advantages” and virtues of the model display to others‚ because this is the only possible way to present the alternatives. Richard Attenborough’s film "Gandhi" presents a realistic and historical film about the Indian political activist life. "Gandhi" – it’s a biographic drama based on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s life. He was a man who started and led to
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dark history‚ a tragic experience for hundreds and thousands of Hindus‚ Sikhs‚ and Muslims who were killed in the communal slaughter which accompanied the process and the nearly fifteen million that were made refugees. The partition of India at independence in 1947 into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan is one of the more important events of twentieth-century world history (Robinson‚ Francis). The partition to date is one of the largest migrations in modern history. It is now acceptable
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• Educational • Video • About Us The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 Rabindranath Tagore Tagore and His India by Amartya Sen* Voice of Bengal Rabindranath Tagore‚ who died in 1941 at the age of eighty‚ is a towering figure in the millennium-old literature of Bengal. Anyone who becomes familiar with this large and flourishing tradition will be impressed by the power of Tagore’s presence in Bangladesh and in India. His poetry as well as his novels‚ short stories‚ and essays are very
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