International Indexed & Refferred Research Journal‚ August 2012‚ ISSN 0975-3486‚ RNI-RAJBAL 2009/30097:VoL III*ISSUE-35 Research Paper-English ’India Re-located’ in Arvind Adiga’s The White Tiger * Prakash Bhadury August‚ 2012 * 232‚ Panchwati Enclave‚ Meerut. A B S T R A C T The White Tiger (2008) explores the protagonist Munna’s journey between an ’India of Light’ and an ’India of Darkness’ while the country is rising as a modern global economy. Narrated through epistolary form
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By Indian English Writing‚ we mean that body of literature which is written by Indians in English. It could be in the form of poetry‚ prose‚ fiction or drama. English is not our mother tongue and we are not native speakers of English‚ yet when in the early decades of the nineteenth century‚ English was introduced as the medium of instruction in our educational system‚ Indians were able to read Western literature that was available in English. They found the language
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ultimately a successful revolutionary leader who ended the rule of Britain over India. Gandhi also successfully ended the laws allowing for untouchability‚ but he was not successful at ending the discrimination against former untouchables. In India‚ people of the untouchable caste were badly mistreated‚ because of their low status on the caste system. The caste system was formed by the Aryans‚ invaders who conquered native Indians living there 2‚000 years ago. They divided the population into castes
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According to Bama “All women in the world are second class citizens. For Dalt women‚ the problem is grave‚ their identity gave them a different set of problems.” Sangati encapsulates the author’s experience of working within an erogenous and apprised society and the serious of several interconnected anecdotes‚ experiences‚ news‚ and events as narrated in the book‚ from an autobiography of a community. Sangati is a portrayal of many trouble witnessing stories as one’s writer’s paati said “Once you
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Velutha and Ammu Create the Mombattis in the novel and all the other power exerting people‚ such as Chacko‚ Baby Kochamma and Comrade Pillai Come under the banner of Laltains. Velutha is a victim of marginalized Caste. He is the representation of the untouchable in the novel The God of Small Things. He is dark in colour and there is an irony within the nomenclature Velutha‚ as it signifies ’something White’. Comrade Pillai‚ who is supposed to safeguard the rights of the people‚ works against Velutha for
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of Dean Mahomet” written during his stay at Cork in 1794. A remarkably versatile entrepreneur he presented British India through the lens of a common man. 1905 – Birth of Mulk Raj Anand‚ another towering figure in this genre‚ best remembered for his depiction of the neglected castes of society in his book “The Untouchable”. 1908 – Birth Of Raja Rao‚ who published the first major English novel in this genre called “Kanthapura” which portrayed a small South Indian village as a microcosm of the
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there also exists a sub-section‚ the Untouchables who do not‚ even qualify to fit into an ordered society and considered as ‘achoot’ (untouchables) because of their polluting occupations they are specified to perform and placed outside the varna system. In Hindu religion and social order they are considered as Panchama (the fifth varna)‚ ati-shudras or avarnas or Outcaste and placed outside chaturvarna (fourfold) framework. It is this section‚ the Untouchables and the backward
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Tea plantation is one of the major industries of the world that requires a large number of workers. Tea plantations had been carried out in various places of Assam‚ India during the colonial rule. Assam produces more than 54 per cent of the annual tea produce. The British managed workers from various places of India for the Assam tea gardens. The workers were mostly tribal and backward Hindu by caste. They came to distant Assam tea gardens to work here to improve their conditions of life. But reverse
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A Study on Feminism and patriotism in Nayantara Sahgal’s Rich Like Us Abstract In this research paper I might endeavor to build up that both Nayantara Sahgal’s women’s rights and patriotism are set apart by weakening ovals‚ which make her complicit with those exceptionally talks—of male controlled society and government—that she obviously looks to uncover and study in Rich Like Us. Born into modern India’s chief political family‚ the Nehrus‚ and raised in a household in which female children did
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