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    This began in 1858 when the East India Company transferred the Crown to Queen Victoria and she declared herself empress of India. This was called the British Raj and lasted almost 100 years from 1858-1947. One setback of the British company was the Salt Acts. These acts stated that Indians could not collect salt for themselves nor to sell it. Citizens were forced to purchase all of their salt products from

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    The Golden Temple Massacre, the Homespun Movement, and the Salt March were vital events that contributed to India’s independence from Britain. Britain controlled India for over 100 years until the mid 1900s. The British ruled India using a government system called direct rule, and kicked out the old Indian government to replace it with a viceroy. India gained independence on August 15, 1947, when Nehru passed a new declaration of independence and became the first prime minister of the country. There

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    In a quest to find raw materials, the British East India Company slowly started to take over India. Then in 1757 they won a decisive battle against India. A year later after the sepoy rebellion the British took direct control of India. Britain’s government of India resulted in massive change politically, economically, and socially. The British completely made a mess of the Indians calm government politically and economically, the British did give Indians a better life socially. Political Paragraph-DUE

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    Despite having drastically different perspectives, E.M. Forster and Mulk Raj Anand display a common disdain for British imperialism and racism while sharing in a struggle to fully capture the complexities of the British Raj while still spreading their intended message in their novels, A Passage to India and Untouchable. Untouchable and A Passage to India were not written solely for entertainment. The authors’ shared purpose for writing the stories is more important than the stories themselves

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    Deplorable Description Of The Outcaste in Mulk Raj Anand’s Untouchable The proposed project will discuss on the novel “Untouchable” by Mulk Raj Anand and will draw attention towards the sensitive issue of untouchability. ‘Untouchable’ a fiction published in the year 1935, presents the prime concerns of the great author Mulk Raj Anand, which is, to highlight the cause of the dumb and the deserted, the lowly and the lost of an adverse society. His concerns are always been for the creatures in the

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    Marginalization In Coolie

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    fictional works, Anand has given a voice to the voiceless marginalized lot in the society. He writes about the oppressed, suppressed, exploited and humiliated people who face social, political, economic and cultural exclusion. In Coolie (1936), Mulk Raj Anand dramatizes the tragic life of the marginalized class i.e. the poor in the society. It is a suffering saga of Munoo who performs variegated jobs as a domestic servant, coolie, and rickshaw puller for sustenance. He struggles in the life for food

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    The Lost Child Analysis

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    moment, the child realizes his isolation and cries out in despair, "I want my father, I want my mother" (Anand 1995: 10). The child's fall is symbolic of Adam's fall from paradise because of "his inordinate temptation and transgression" (Anand, Mulk, Raj. archive.org/stream/ ./lightedpathway1971chur_djvu.txt.Web.15Sept. 2014). In one phase of his life, Anand engaged himself in completing his autobiographical novels. There is a pattern of personal or impersonal, unintentional or intentional threads that

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    disease and very substandard living conditions. The fact that there was a cholera epidemic from which Gangu’s wife dies showed that the contagious nature of the diseases was serious. The realism in the novel is the is the first hand observation of Mulk Raj Anand and his observations of the tea garden laborers when he lived for a time in Assam.

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    classic on this suffering effectively because the realities were too rudimentary for a writer like Tagore. Mulk Raj Anand an immense Indian novelist draws our consideration through his immortal characters Munno and Bakha, from existent civilization. As a novelist he speaks on pragmatism, variance, humanism and exploitations. Anand wrote about real natives whom he knew quite intimately. Mulk Raj Anand awakens social principles by his works. He arouses compassionate sensation of readers for the subjugated

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    The journey to Assam was descripted in the most picturesque manner. The beautiful details of landscape, the rustic beauty of plantation, the greenery and fresh air were breath taking. It was like watching a dream land. The morning mist has risen over the valley and evaporated with the dazzling burst of sunlight. The air was still under the clear even sky. The welter of leafage was tensed beneath the world’s hollow cup. There was a concentrated lull in the slow heart of the day, as if India missed

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