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    the community and the individual memory. India’s 1947 partition reveals that there are many different histories to the independence of India and the subsequent creation of Pakistan. By utilizing the text Cracking India, author Bapsi Sidhwa examines the disparities between the two types of memories in order to reconcile the past with contemporary India/Pakistan. India and Pakistan are built from the same foundational nation of India before Partition; thus, their histories are irrevocably bound together

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    2008 is the first full fledged novel written by Hassan Ajizul Haque. He was born in1939 in West Bengal and just after the completion of his school studies, his family had to leave India for East Bengal to avoid any insidious after-effect of the partition. Atin Bandyapadhaya and Sunanda Sikdar both left East Bengal for West Bengal but Ajizul Haque was one, who left West Bengal for East Bengal. Ordinarily, the critics tend to take it as altogether a feminist novel, but an in-depth study may bring out

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    With Indo-Pak relations straining from worse to worst, the 1988 novel, The Shadow Lines, of Amitav Ghosh gets more relevance as its major focus is on the partition inflicted psyches. A nation draws boundary to separate its people from other nations. But, in the case of India and Pakistan the borders are not strong enough to separate people who are the progenies of the same culture and history. How can one divide a nation which has a common past, culture, history and heritage? In fact the makers

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    instability. Following the partition, the first consequence, was the uneven distribution of area and population. India was burdened with with 82% of the population and only procured 77% of the total area. The remaining 18% of population along with 23% of the total area went over to Pakistan. However, it is only when we look at the way in which the agricultural resources were distributed, that the real loss that India experiences become evident. Respective of the partition, 84% of the diffused area

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    Borders and Boundaries in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: A Postcolonial Study “The Shadow lines” is an award winning novel by Amitav Ghosh. The historical events like the Swadeshi Movement, Second World War, partition of India and communal riots of 1963-64 which took place in Calcutta and Dhaka are all mentioned. The concept of boundaries is an important one for the postcolonial world writer’s .This novel discusses these lines across cultures and boundaries and tries to study them. These borders

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    Sucker Punch Gameplay Engineer Questions Question 1 Imagine that you’re designing a new attack for an enemy in a melee-focused third-person action game. Just to choose a random example, let’s say it’s a Minotaur in a God of War-style game. What factors do you consider when designing the attack, and how do you prioritize these factors? Basic factors about the attack: 1. Area: The area in which the attack could potentially fall upon 2. Duration: The duration of the attack 3. Frequency: How often this

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    events complicated the histories of India, Britain and Pakistan because of the ill-informed partition program carried out by British authorities. The Shameful Flight covers the periods between the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in February 1942 and Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948. In this book, Wolpert's thesis argues against the death of hundreds of thousands of people who died after the partition of India. For example, Wolpert believes that the catastrophe resulted from

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    Partition is the unspoken and repressed historical memory of those that lived in the time of British India. Partition persists as one of the utmost important historical events to ever take place in India, plaguing the collective memories of families in Pakistan and India. Partition occurred in 1947 when the British ended their colonization of India and created two independent dominions, India and Pakistan. The result of this division left 10 to 12 million people displaced, large-scale violence, and

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    The British authority that began in 1858, and extended over the Indian continent until 1947, had long-lasting and detrimental effects on India’s civilization. The British Raj contained the direct rule for India. Britain having rule over about 60% of India indirectly and gathered the other 40% of rule through native princes such as Kashmir, who followed the policies that were implemented by the British. The British developed India’s Infrastructure a great deal with more rail roads and telegraph lines

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    will comprise youth with a flair for novelty and curiosity, to know more about this maligned society and relationship between the old and the young. This novel will go a long way among those people, who wants to understand the havoc caused by the partition of India in 1947. The characters of the book will depict their relationship and the plight they suffered from the hands of their own. In a way the contents are the ugly truth of the society, impact of the commercial world and the perverted nature

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