namely Luxima and Hilarion, on one another. Critics like Rajanview Luximaas the representative of India, and comment that Owenson has portrayed her as a passive and languid character in order to make a negative statement of India’s effeminacy. The novel does not support this claim because closer examination of Luxima’s portrayal suggests that her character confers strength, rather than weakness to India, granting her creator a status above blame.The author has not only represented Luxima as the central
become the government and the rulers of most of the subcontinent. The British attitude had slowly started to encroach Indian values and traditions. These encroachments and changes had angered the Indian population and in 1857 they revolted, all across India. The main causes of the rebellion can be classed into social, economic, military, cultural and religious, disparity and political causes. Before the British had arrived most of the Indian population was Hindu, barring certain areas of the north, where
Right from the beginning of their relationship with India, the British, who had come as traders and had become rulers and administrators, had influenced the economic and political systems of the country. Their impact on the cultural and social life of India was, however, gradual. Till 1813, they followed a policy of non-interference in the social and cultural life of the Indians. Yet, changes were taking place in these fields (the social life of Indians). These changes related to education, the condition
This research mirrors the formative journey of Indian English literature in the form of novel “The rise of the novel in India was not purely a literary phenomenon.It was a social phenomenon as much, rather the fulfillment of a social need’’.1 Writes K.S.Ramamurti in his book Rise of the Indian Novel In English . Of Course, fiction can be called a new branch, a new attempt in comparison with poetry, prose and other treatises but today we can claim that it is the most popular genre of Indo-Anglian
Breakthrough innovation occurs when we bring down boundaries and encourage disciplines to learn from each other” ― Gyan Nagpal Interdisciplinary approach entails the use of methods and analytical frameworks from more than one academic discipline to examine a theme, issue, question or topic. Academic disciplines are different branches of an area of knowledge. Confusion is a broad aspect which includes symptoms, feelings or situations which creates uncertainty and leaves a person bewildered. It is
promotion of equal rights by many reformers, the history of women in India has been eventful. People belonging to literature have always been an important part of the society and Indian women are not an exception. Women have been writing in India since 1000 B.C. Women during the early Vedic period enjoyed equal status with men in all aspects of life. In approximately 500 B.C., the status of women began to decline. The practice of child marriage is believed to have started around the sixth century
with them sometime during life . India is an enhanced society where no misrepresentation could apply to the country's different local, religious, social and financial gatherings. In any case certain wide conditions in which Indian ladies live exasperate the way they contribute in the economy. A common denominator in their lives is that they are by and large limited to home with confined adaptability, and in seclusion. Other, unrecorded, various leveled practices put
For example, descriptions or narrations regarding practice of Sati or Thuggees in India were compiled by the Europeans. No one could say that these practices did not exist in this part of the world. Of course they existed but it was more about the Europeans' choice selection. The imperialists tent to choose certain events or data alone to represent or write
Women in India like black women are still systematically subjected to violence, torture, coercion, sexual abuse, starvation, economic deprivation, dowry death, battering and female infanticide. What is commonly held is that women have been subdued by men and subjected to various types of mental and physical tortures down the ages. In the pre – independence era the position of women in the society was abysmally low, so they developed a sense of inferiority complex. By the sheer force of a vicious
and creed; we must see them as individuals, with a unique identity. Our nation is the largest democracy in the world with 1.25 billion residents living in an area spread over 3,287,590 km2 with 29 different states. It is the mystical land where practices from Kashmir to Kanyakumari or Gujarat to Assam are as different as two different countries. They have diverse cultures, languages, clothes, customs, distinct style of folk music, dance, and religion. People from Punjab are closer in terms of food