THE BADI: PROSTITUTION AS A SOCIAL NORM AMONG AN UNTOUCHABLE CASTE OF WEST NEPAL THOMAS COX Introduction Badi are an untouchable Hindu caste‚ with a total population of approximately 7‚000‚ who inhabit scattered settlements in the Salyan‚ Rolpa‚ Rukum‚ Dailekh‚ Seti‚ Jajarkot‚ Dang-Dekhuri‚ Banke and Bardiya Districts of west Nepal. Bali men fish (keeping most of the catch for their own family’s consumption) and make drums and pipes‚ which they sell to Nepalese in neighboring communities. Badi
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English Project On ‘Social Concerns in Mulkraj Anand’s Untouchable’ In partial fulfillment of the requirements for Award of Degree of Bachelors of Arts (Hons.) in English Submitted By: Supervised By: Sachin Singh Mrs. Manisha Sinha A0706113121 Assistant Professor Amity Institute of English Studies and Research AMITY UNIVERSITY UTTAR PRADESH India DECLARATION Date:
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Untouchable’s Life The name ‘Untouchable’ always brings to our mind Mulk Raj Anand’s book. But Omprakash Valmiki’s Joothan is written from the personal experiences of dalit who rises to prominence from his marginalized presence. Omprakash Valmiki’s voice is today recognized as an empowered voice of a writer who works on behalf of Dalits. Himself born in a desperately poor family in North India‚ the lowest caste in Indian society‚ a community of the illiteratre Untouchables ‚ he describes from his personal
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apex of creation with the contribution of regional and national writers. This researcher would like to focus on the root and brief literary history of Indian writing in English and the genre – novel in Indo-Anglian literature up to the time of Mulk Raj Anand for better understanding of his novel. Here‚ it is essential to mention the brief history of Indian writing in English and the contributors of it. Along with the list of the contributors in Indian writing in English‚ the rise of the new
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INTRODUCTION Indian English novels refer to the various novels by writers in India who write in the English language and whose native or co-native language could be one of the numerous languages of India. It is also associated with the works of members of the Indian Diaspora‚ such as V. S. Naipaul‚ Kiran Desai‚ Jhumpa Lahiri and Salman Rushdie‚ who are of Indian descent. It is frequently referred to as Indo-Anglian literature. As a category‚ this production comes under the broader realm of postcolonial
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Indian writing in English Raja Rammohan Ray was the first Indian to effectively express himself in black and white through English though he was initiated to the language when he was in his teens. Thereafter Vivekananda showed his perfect masterly over the language through his evocative prose‚ which made the west sit up and take notice of the greatness of Hinduism. Tagore also had written some poems in English. However‚ there is no denying the fact that Indian writings in English were extremely
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INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH POEM THE BEGINNING The renaissance in modern Indian Literature begins with Raja Ram Mohan Roy. The infiltration of western culture‚ the study of English literature‚ the adoption of western scientific techniques‚ gave a jolt to India’s traditional life. It shocked us into a new awareness‚ a sense of urgency‚ and the long dormant intellectual and critical impulse was quickened into sudden life and the reawakening Indian spirit went forth to meet the violent challenge of
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unique to India; it was practised in parts of Europe until a few centuries ago‚ and Japan still has a large number of ’untouchables’‚ called the burakumin. But it is in the Indian sub-continent that this system survives‚ closely bound with culture‚ religion‚ history and contemporary politics. Today over 170 million men‚ women and children in the India are considered untouchable‚ and improvement in their lot has been slow despite legal safeguards and government programs THE INDIAN CASTE SYSTEM There
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No. Books Authors 01 My experiments with Truth Mahatma M.K.Gandhi 02 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 03 Geetanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore 04 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch Alexander Solzhenitsyn 05 The Merchant of venice William shakespeare 06 The Moon and Six pense Somerset Maughan 07 Pilgrim’s Progress from this world to that which is to come John Bunyan 08 A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 09 Utopia Sir Thomas Moor 10 Origin of species charles Darwin
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Lajwanti-mulk raj anand Having lived through almost the entire 20th century (from 1905 to 2004)‚Mulk Raj Anand had been an active observer of the myriad changes taking place in social‚ cultural‚ political and economic landscape of pre and post-independent India. His short stories sketch the deep-rooted caste‚ class and gender bias in the lives of Indians. ‘Lajwanti’ is a heart-rending portrait of a woman who tries to flee to her father’s home in order to escape the brutal and sexual advances of
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