Characters Kanai Dutt: Indian‚ 42 years old; translator; knows 6 languages; at around 10 was sent to Lusibari to be “rusticated” when speaking back to the teacher; unmarried; lives in New Deli; runs a bureau of translators; Piyali Roy: Indian by descent; does not speak Bengali; from Seattle but born in Kolkata‚ left when 1 year old; cetologist; has an uncle in Kolkata (big man in government); late 20s; her mother suffered from cervical cancer; Nilima Bose: Mashima - “aunt”; 76 years old; Kanai’s
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The question as to what would be the state language of Pakistan was raised immediately after its creation. Muslim scholars and leaders logically believed that Urdu‚ only spoken by 7%‚ should be the lingua franca because it had gained a reputation as the cultural symbol of subcontinental Muslims. However‚ eastern Pakistanis regarded Urdu as the language of the elite‚ not the language of the people in the eastern province - who made up 56% of Pakistan’s population - where Bangla was the mother tongue
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Encyclopedia). Much of India’s area of almost 1.3 million square miles (3.3 million square kilometers– including the Pakistani-held part of Jammu and Kashmir) is a peninsula jutting into the Indian Ocean between the Arabian Sea on the west and the Bay of Bengal on the east. There are three distinct physiographic regions. In the north the high peaks of the Himalayas lie partly in India but mostly just beyond its borders in Nepal‚ Bhutan‚ and Tibet.
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Artistic education and western standards. * A new high art and the example of Raja Ravi Varma. C. Painting for the nation. * History paintings. * Popular paintings. II) The reconstitution of a national aesthetics: the Bengal school
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demanding the formation of independent states in the East and the West of British India. Eventually‚ a united Pakistan with its wings – West Pakistan and East Pakistan – gained independence from the British‚ on 14 August 1947. After a civil war‚ the Bengal region of East Pakistan‚ separated at a considerable distance from the rest of Pakistan‚ became the independent state of Bangladesh in 1971. Major Event • September 1948
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Appadorai‚ Vol. II.[Extra(4B)] * B.R. Ambedkar on inequity in the matter of electorates between Muslim minority Provinces and Muslim majority Provinces‚ from Pakistan or the Partition of India‚ Chapter VI (excerpt) at www.ambedkar.org/Pakistan. * B.R. Ambedkar on alternative to partition‚ from Pakistan or the Partition of India‚ Chapter XIII (excerpt) at www.ambedkar.org/Pakistan. * Stafford Cripps to M.A. Jinnah during his meeting with the Cabinet Mission Delegation on April 4 1946(excerpt)
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bengalwiki.com best summarizes the next following years: “The British East India Company‚ a private company formed in 1600 during the reign of Akbar and operating under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I‚ established a factory on the Hooghly River in Bengal in 1650 and founded the city of Calcutta in 1690. Although the initial aim of the British East India Company was to seek trade under concessions obtained from local Mughal governors‚ the steady collapse of the Mughal Empire (1526-1858) enticed the
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Chapter - 5 13 Personality of Jinnah 13 Chapter - 6 15 Conclusion 15 Bibliography: - 17 Chapter - 1 Introduction The partition of India‚ 1947‚ some call it as vivisection as Gandhi had‚ has without doubt has been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of more than four generations of this subcontinent. Why did the partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible – Jinnah‚ the Congress Party or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer
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Sir Mohammad Iqbal‚ better known as “Allama” (scholar) Iqbal‚ is a unanimously celebrated poet and thinker all over the state of Pakistan. He is considered among the founders of Pakistan‚ and often credited for the very idea of an independent state for Indian Muslims‚ “Quaid-e-Azam” (the great leader) Mohammad Ali Jinnah being the man who realized Iqbal’s vision and founded “Pakistan” (the land of the pure) in 1947. Born in Sialkot‚ Punjab‚ now part of Pakistan‚ Iqbal belonged to a family of reasonable
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SUMMARY Amitav Ghosh can be seen as the flag bearer of the fearlessness and freedom that the contemporary Indian writer in English embodies. Although Salman Rushdie is the pioneer who put the post colonial scene on the literary map‚ yet Amitav Ghosh has become one of the central figures to emerge after the success of Rushdie`s Midnight`s Children. Yet when compared to Rushdie‚ published criticism on Ghosh is not very substantial. Most of the critical essays are limited to his more popular
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