Compare And Contrast A Sense Of Living In The Raj After The Mutiny Of 1857

“The Inconvenient Indian” speaks to a general audience and particularly to US and Canada. The book is organized into chapters and each chapter refers to a variety of themes. Some of these themes are history, culture, politics, and laws. By incorporating all these themes,

Gandhi directly attacked the Raj as he declared it a ‘crime’ to submit to its rule in hope he could connect with the Indians and encourage them to follow his lead. He successfully did this as a result of the Salt March. Although only 78 of his supporters followed him on the entire march, many other Indians got involved. On route of the march, many Indian officials resigned from their posts. Elsewhere, another march was organised in South India were protests in Bombay, the North West Frontier Province and 2000 non-violent demonstrators at a salt production plant in Dharasana were attacked to the ground by police. This again is evidence of the ‘inhuman rule’ Gandhi speaks about in his declaration, and consequently shows why the British lost a lot of moral authority over the Indians.

Not only did Gandhi’s lack of abandoning the Hindu caste system all together lead to few, if any, results his actions also lead many Untouchables to believe his efforts failed even farther. India’s “one true Untouchable hero” is a man name Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and he came into play during Gandhi’s “greatest perceived sin”. (O'Neil, p. 5).

The designs of the English “became more imperial and their attitude more haughty and aloof” (George,44). The social gulf that existed between the “diplomatic pundits” and the English scholars began to widen. The attitude of the average Englishman changed from one of disapproval of “Hindu superstitions” and “Mussalman bigotry” and of philosophic and cultural interest in Hindu mythology, and of historical curiosity in Moguhal domination; into one of contempt for an inferior and conquered people (George, 44). The English had “developed from the pettifogging traders quarreling over their seats in church, to imperial swashbucklers and large scale extortionists” (Spear, 23). The British no longer relished the ways of commerce; their appetites’, instead were whetted by conquest and prospects of plunder.

An example of this is the idea prevalent in certain parts of the society that the colonizers, even though violators of human rights themselves, in many circumstances had also civilized the country by abolishing brutal practices like the ‘Sati’ and by having offered a scathing critique of the oppressive Indian caste system, helped in removing it. What remains hidden behind this myth is the fact that the colonizers had not only in their early days of invasion and in their ‘oriental spirit’ as Doniger points out, remained oblivious to the brutal act of Sati and intended not to interfere with Hindu practices but also throughout their rule propagated the ideas of caste distinctions. These distinctions based themselves not only on the existing Hindu caste system but also on the fact that certain sections of society were more loyal to the colonizers than others. The caste based division in the Indian Army (formed during the British rule) that manifests itself in the name of the various regiments also further establishes this idea.

“Becoming American” is short film that informs the viewer about the process of immigrants getting jobs in America. Immigrants both gain and lose many aspects of what make them who they are when coming to America. This film teaches many things that people don’t probably know about Hispanic immigrants and allows others to understand what immigrants stand for.

Randy Pausch, the author of the book titled “The Last Lecture” offers insight about his childhood, adult life and how he copes with his terminal illness. For example, I agree with his advice about how complaining won’t get you where you want to be. He states, “If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out... Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Clothing Gandhi is a book describing not only Gandhi’s influence on India, but a vast array of topics relating to khadi cloth. It is only a coincidence that Gandhi’s connection to khadi is one which became a turning point in Indian Symbolism. Lisa Trivedi’s book, written in 2007, discusses the influence of a single industrial material to walk the reader through her narrative. In her introduction she provides us a map of the book’s lay out and describes how each chapter builds off the previous chapter and she continues to evaluate India’s personal connection to khadi. The book helps to connect the people’s identity to the national fabric that bound political organizing, social protesting and solidarity to the Indian people and way of life free of British dominion.

The Revolt Of 1857, also known as the first war of independence or the Sepoy Mutiny was the first major revolt or uprising against the British rule. This came as a shock for the British and as an inspiration for the Indians. This revolt is seen as the start to the struggle for freedom and the first major attack on the British rule; this led to many transformations, both physical and mental and many other events. This displayed a new, never seen before unity among the people against the British rule. The Marxists say that the revolt was more like a soldier-peasant revolt as soldiers were just peasants in uniform.

The Empire’s unrelenting appetite for wealth ignored personal experience; it rendered white men biased and broken, even as each man struggled to retain self-integrity. Angry feelings of displacement and violence were “…normal by-products of imperialism…” for Orwell and other envoys of the British Empire in India (Orwell, 2). Forced compromises between a man’s integrity and the Empire’s fabricated realities birthed racism and prejudice. Orwell was “…stuck between [his] hatred of the empire [he] served and [his] rage against the evil-spirited little beasts who tried to make [his] job impossible” (Orwell, 2). In supporting the needs of the Empire, Orwell fed the hatred between European culture and that of India. Thousands of Indians burned against him and people of his skin color. Wrought from greed, the mindset of the ‘superior’ white man poisoned the entire Empire. Enter an anthropologist into this den of contempt.

HOW SHOULD THE INDIAN MUTINY BE CHARACTERISED? SHOULD IT BE SEEN AS A POST PACIFICATION REVOLT, A NATIONALIST UPRISING, OR AS A WAR OF INDEPENDENCE?

Rohinton Mistry’s (38) first person autobiographical narrative of his trip to the Himalayan city of Dharmsala is on the surface a quaint, visual, biographical account of a journey to an Indian town that helps the author come full circle: His childhood visions of the city he dreamt of visiting and its reality as he sees it in adulthood are different in many ways, yet his childhood and adulthood converged in serene moment that epitomizes Mistry’s glorification of his native India: “To have made this journey, I felt, was to have described a circle of my own. And this understanding increased the serenity of the moment” (51). However, a rhetorical analysis of the speaker in the essay, which as mentioned is a first person autobiographical narrative lead us to an agenda that is hidden below the surface: Indian nationalism and pride. This is not to insinuate that the author has some hidden, malevolent agenda to thrust Indian nationalism upon the reader. Rather, the tools of rhetorical analysis reveal the subtle undertones of the essay in a manner that perhaps even the author is not full conscious of. Rhetorical analysis depends on part in gauging what effect a text has on its intended audience (Leach 218). Thus, the strength of rhetorical analysis lies in the textual evidence that is presented as proof of an analytical claim and that is what is attempted throughout this analysis.

Over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries, two men, who themselves did not cross paths, made their mark on history. Both men lived extraordinary lives, with Malik Ambar transitioning from being an African slave brought to India as a child to a major influence among the elite on the Deccan plateau, and Banarasidas, a merchant, provide insight into the period when the Mughal empire ruled the majority of the region that is India. Examining their lives, both Ambar and Banarasidas were influenced by the religion and politics of the era, but their experiences do not necessarily reflect one another's in every aspect.

As the life of Arjie unfolds in his home of Sri Lanka, we are driven down many winding roads. The internal struggle of a young boy trying to come of age in a Tamil family hardened by life after colonization and the racial tension between the Tamil and the Sinhalese. Under British colonial rule, the majority of the Tamil inhabitants of Sri Lanka was brought in as slaves with few working within governmental positions. The Sinhalese people outnumbered and continued to persecute the Tamil population once the British departed. The following years were similarly as brutal as those once seen during forced enslavement. Although they had achieved freedom to some degree, the Sinhalese government achieved new heights of corruption and used many means to continue the oppression and separation of the two races. Many Tamil families, like Arjie’s, accepted the fragile state of affairs, but the animosity from years of violence and subjugation was deeply imbedded in family culture and values. The gradual transition from steadfast animosity, to acceptance and questioning of the strains between the two races on a larger scale is scene across three generations presented to us in the text. The social constructs for the people of Sri Lanka were built on sand. Although the

English traders repeatedly engaged in conflicts with their Dutch and Portuguese matching part in the Indian Ocean. The company attained a major victory over the Portuguese in the Battle of Swally in 1612. The company decided to explore the probability of attainment a territorial base in mainland India, with official agreement of both countries, and requested that the Crown launch a political mission.