impact of partition through Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Ice Candy Man. ‘India is going to be broken. Can one break a country? And what happens if they break it where our house is? Or crack it further up on Warris Road? How will I ever get to Godmother’s then?’ – Lenny. Bapsi Sidhwa was born in 1938 in Karachi‚ Pakistan‚ to a Parsee family and grew up in Lahore. In 1947 India was partitioned‚ and Lahore became part of Pakistan. With her third novel‚ Ice Candy Man‚ Sidhwa established herself as Pakistan’s
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unique freshness. Bapsi Sidhwa uses the structural device and turns the female protagonists into the moral centre‚ while most of the male characters either remain apathetic or indulge in destructive violence. In patriarchal social set up masculinity means superiority while femininity means inferiority. Masculinity implies strength‚ action‚ self-assertion and domination‚ femininity implies weakness‚ passivity‚ docility‚ obedience and self-negation. Through narrator Lenny the Bapsi Sidhwa lends weight and
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Zulfikar Ghose was born on 13 March 1935‚ in Sialkot‚ which is now a part of Punjab in Pakistan. His family moved to Bombay in 1942 and ten years later immigrated to England. Graduating from the University of Keele‚ UK‚ in 1959‚ he worked as a freelance journalist in London for The Observer and for The TLS‚ The Spectator and NewStatesman. Hewrote novels likeThe Contradictions (1966)‚ The Murder of Aziz Khan followed (1967)‚ The Incredible Brazilian trilogy‚ comprising the novels The Native (1972)
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thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=269>. Malik‚ Iftikhar H.‚ Dr. Religious Minorities of Pakistan. Rep. Minority Rights Group International‚ n.d. Web. <http://southas2.w06.wh-2.com/Media/NewsDoc/_1787.Pdf>. Powers‚ Janet M. "Bapsi Sidhwa." Asian American Novelists: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. N.p.: n.p.‚ n.d. N. pag. Google Books. Amazon. Web. 18 May 2013. <http://books.google.com.pk/books?hl=en>. Sajjad‚ Shyema. "A Living Legend." DAWN Archives RSS. N.p.
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LEE 1 Silent Trauma: Representing Indian Partition in Subaltern Studies‚ Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India I. Subaltern Studies: Silence of History of Partition and Subaltern In 1947‚ India gained its independence following 350 years of British colonization. At the same time‚ due to the serious communal conflicts that had long existed among the three main communities in India—Hindus‚ Muslims‚ and Sikhs‚ the Independence brought the Partition of India to create two newly independent
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COLONIALISM‚ POST-COLONIALISM & POST-COLONIAL INDIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE ABSTRACT Colonialism is the building and maintaining of colonies in one territory by people from another territory. Colonialism normally refers to a period of history from the 15th to the 20th century when people from Europe established colonies on other continents. Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy of acquiring and maintaining colonies‚ especially for exploitation." The Stanford Encyclopaedia
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3. British colonialism and its effects on the shaping of Pakistani culture The culture of a nation (a complex structure of unsaid dos and don’ts) is determined by their emotive sensitivities and intellectual development at a given stage in history. The form of social order and its institutions are a reflection of this culture. Pre-British India was on a declining path vis-à-vis these factors. Hence conditions were ripe for the invaders to encourage and establish a culture of collaboration. And
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The partition novels like Azadi‘ by Chaman Nahali‚ A Bend in the Ganges by Manohar Malgonkar and Ice-candy-Man by Bapsi Sidhwa have bold-curdling scenes of communal riots‚ unfolding the first hand experience of the fatless time. Khuswant Singh leaves his readers trembling with fear when he writes about the outcome of the violence as seen in swelling Sutlej‚ which present
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August 15‚ 1947 was a very significant day for Muslims‚ Hindus‚ Sikhs and many others. It marked the day of the British partition of India into a Muslim-controlled Pakistan and a Hindu-dominated India. India won its freedom from colonial rule‚ ending nearly 200 years of British rule. Many different events lead to the final decision of the partition. During the 18th and 19th centuries‚ the British gained full power over India. Bitterness towards the British developed as Hindus and Muslims were
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