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through a feeling of loss of home. Furthermore, immigration is accompanied by the demands of adjusting to the new country. These sentiments are clearly portrayed in The Namesake which outlines the stark differences between Indians raised in the States trying to embrace parental Indian values while also seeking inclusion in the American way of living. The Namesake, which was also made into a major motion picture in 2007, is an American immigrant saga revolving around a Bengali family living in the United

that Pakistan had a parallel history all its own for centuries before partition. This “Muslim” version of the Indian subcontinent implies Pakistan was always here, they just called it the Mughal Empire back then. Historical truth, however, does not side with Pakistan on Kashmir. The exiting British Raj in 1947 had both the Muslim League and Indian National Congress sign off on the Indian Independence Act. This legislation simplified, or so everyone thought, the divvying up of British India into the

sovereignty of the Indian princes. The revolt of 1857 led British Government in India found in the princes their allies Many Jagirdars were raised to the status of princely states. There were 562 states ruled by Indian princes. Even though Indian states were not annexed, they were subordinates to the British Government. The British were acknowledged as the paramount power. By the act of 1876, Queen Victoria assumed the title of Empress of India. This implied that Britain would protect the Indian states from

British rule. Indian nationalism put the British Empire’s grasp on India at risk. Because of the development of extensive railway system across India to make possible the export of natural resources brought about the conception of national unity by passing the people of the subcontinent in easy contact to each other. Furthermore, the British knew that small party of foreigners could not manage and regulate large country of India. Therefore, the British form elite of intellectual Indian bureaucrats

Hindus and Muslims, an ideological difference between the Indian National Congress and the Muslim League is another key factor which led to the partition. Differences between the Muslim League and the Indian national congress can be traced back till The Indian National Congress founded in 1885. Originally Indian National Congress was founded to elevate economic changes and to influence the policies of the British rule. Through forming the Indian National Congress by western educated Hindu aristocrats

Book Review The Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson is a collection of three essays originally published in the London Review of Books. As the title suggests, The Indian Ideology through critical engagement delves deep into the set of ideas (or nationalist discourse) that shape the Indian nation – democracy, multicultural unity and secularity – and deals with ‘conditions and events that generated them, and which they both reflect and distort’ (p.2). For Anderson the idea of India as one

fighting rejecting the tax that the British government had put on salt for the Indian people. Gandhi’s act of marching to the sea to produce salt sparked motions and revolutions throughout the country. This march is considered by many to be the catalyst that lead to the eventual freedom of India from British rule. What Lead to the March Before leading the salt march in India and becoming one of the most well known Indian civil rights activists, Gandhi studied law in London and left for twenty years

of Independence is an important landmark in the Sub-Continent history. This War was fought in 1857 against the British by Indians in order to get rid of their authority. It is also given names as Indian Revolt as well as Indian Rebellion. The main causes of the War were social, economic, political, military and religious. It was an extreme effort made by people of subcontinent, but they failed due to some reasons including, disunity, mutual jealousies and lack of strong leadership etc. CAUSES OF WAR:

located on the southern subcontinent of Asia. India shares borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, and Bangladesh. India has not always been on the greatest terms with some of the neighboring countries, which have led to four different armed conflicts. It has a population of approximately 1.34 billion people (Population of India 2017, 2017). One-third of the land mass that makes up India is coastline. 1858 would mark both a political and economic unification of the subcontinent by the British (Britannica

The British also had people inserted into local Indian affairs after the third Carnatic war this helped the British retain their power in India for years to come. It set the stage for the development of the British Raj in the nineteenth century. The Europeans also created a destabilized region and they