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 denied jobs and high positions in the
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Victimization and Its Cures: Representations of South Eastern Europe in British Fiction and Drama of the 1990s. In: Betraying the Event: Constructions of Victimhood in Contemporary Cultures‚ Fatima Festic (ed.)‚ Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing‚ 2009‚ pp. 35 -65. VICTIMIZATION AND ITS “CURES”: REPRESENTATIONS OF SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE IN BRITISH FICTION AND DRAMA OF THE 1990s LUDMILLA KOSTOVA In his extended reflection on twentieth-century history Hope and Memory (2000; English
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George C. Herring’s book From Colony To Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776 describes how the American colonies originated from Europe and our journey westward in to California. Herring does a good job making his way through our nation’s history. Depicting all the major events that took present. Describing major contributor‚ the present-day nation that we live in. Herring starts the book off by introducing the early forms of government that The American colonies started. He goes on to talk
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Although the Chesapeake Colonies and New England Colonies were settled at around the same time‚ the specific situations affecting each establishment altered the way that they developed. Jamestown was the first settlement on May 24‚ 1607. The Virginia Company of London‚ a joint-stock firm‚ commissioned it. The Jamestown colonists had increased pressure to strike it rich‚ because of the threat of abandonment in the wilderness. The first settlement in the New England region was Plymouth‚ which was founded
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was one of the major trading ports of the eastern world‚ he obtained permission by Mānavikraman Raja to trade in the city from Saamoothiri Rajah. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire). British empire has been in India since the early 1600 ’s‚ when the East India Company started trading and British missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools providing English education were set up trough out India by the early 1800 ’s. The process of producing English-speaking
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Do you agree with the view that the British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one The British actions at Amritsar were justified in the aftermath of world war one to an extent. The war seemed to boost the self esteem on Indians and unite them‚ suggesting threat against the raj‚ however the view in source 10 shows that there was no proof of a conspiracy‚ source 11 agrees with this but also shows why dyer might have acted in this way. Source 12 agrees with the fact that
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British Culture: Sport Sports play an important part in the life of the Englishmen and is a popular leisure activity. Many of the world’s famous sports began in England‚ including cricket‚ football‚ lawn tennis and rugby. 1.Cricket Cricket is an England’s national sport. Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams‚ usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field‚ roughly oval in shape. How to play Cricket Teams are made up of 11 players each. They play
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The North American Colonies are split up into three sub colonies; the sub colonies are the New England Colony‚ the Middle Colony‚ and the Southern Colony. The New England Colony consists of Rhode Island‚ Connecticut‚ Massachusetts‚ and New Hampshire. The Middle Colony consists of Delaware‚ Pennsylvania‚ New York‚ and New Jersey. The Southern Colony consists of Maryland‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ and Georgia. The economies that developed in these three areas are very different. The
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The maturity of the political system in Britain has gradually shaped the British community. Britain at present is considered to be a Liberal Democratic state and one main component is the capacity of the government to conduct an election to allow the people to voice their needs in the national level. Election is the heart or the core of a democratic state ‚ removing this would deprive the people of their right. After five years or if the Parliament was dissolved by the Queen with of course the
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The American Colonies‚ in the eighteenth century‚ were just beginning to become a more democratic society. With immigrants coming from all over Europe seeking religious refuge and economic profits‚ the Great Awakening‚ and the Zenger case‚ the colonies were becoming more and more democratic with each passing year. The population in the American Colonies had a tenfold increase between 1701 and 1775. More than one million people had come across the ocean to join the other colonists. Newcomers did
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