I. Tentative Title: Rewriting History: Countering the British Narrative of India’s Colonial Experience II. Research Problem Colonization of India by the British has been an essential theme in the novels of Indo-Pakistani postcolonial writers. These writers have time and again used novel as a tool to counter the narrative of colonial literature and to demonstrate the narrative of the colonized native. The use of fiction as a tool to rewrite history has been a well-established practice in the field
This article explores representation of women in short stories written by women writers from the state of Karnataka, India. The seven different stories selected for analysis are – (1) The Two Paintings (2) Mother, (3) Second Marriage, (4) Roowariya Lakshmi, (5) Dog’s Tail, (6) The Third Eye, and (7) The One Who Left Forever. Each of these stories represents women who play different roles that were archetypal of the social milieu of the times. The authors were preoccupied with women’s suffering, status
The sentences are composed of clauses and the simplest form of a sentence has only one independent clause. The structure of Punjabi language’s sentences is SOV (Subject Object Verb) order unlike English that follows SVO order. The subject occurs first followed by the object and then the verb, in Punjabi sentences e.g. ਮੁੰਡਾ ਸੇਬ ਖਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ। In the above sentence, ਮੁੰਡਾ muṇḍā ‘boy’ is subject, ਸੇਬ sēb ‘apple’ is object, and ਖਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ khāndā hai ‘eats’