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Literature-India
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NAMASTE
INDIA
Key Facts
INDIAN
FACTS
Joined Commonwealth: 1947
Population: 1,252,140,000 (2013)
Official language: Hindi, English
Currency: rupee (Rs)
India
Facts
- Occupies the greater part of South Asia.
- It is a constitutional republic consisting of 29 states, each with a substantial degree of control over their own affairs;
- National capital territory: New Delhi,
- Second most populous country, after China.
Daily life
and
social customs
Family and kinship
dowry
- Marriages are arranged by family elders on the basis of caste, economic status and education.
- Husband: recognized family head
- Wife: regulates family duties.
Dailylifeculture
Clothing
Women wear saris and short blouses, the way in which a sari is wrapped varies greatly from one region to another
Clothing
Dhoti
Caste
Caste
- dominating aspect of social organization
- designated by the term jati (“birth”), refers to a strictly regulated social community into which one is born
INDIA
BEFORE
BRITISH
INDIA BEFORE AND AFTER BRITISH RULE
Economy
Government
Religion
- The predominant religion in ancient India was Hinduism
- Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
- The Mauryan empire was divided into provinces.
- Provinces became powerful regional kingdoms,
- The ancient Indians had trade contacts with far off lands like the Middle East, the Roman Empire and the South East Asia
- The economy of the villages was self-sustaining
- Agriculture was the predominant occupation of the populace and satisfied a village's food necessities
Literature
Education
- Western education
- Female education
- The Aryans developed a great abundance of poems, tales, hymns, spells and so on, in an oral tradition known as the Vedas.
- Religious and other ideas came to be expressed in short texts called sutras.
- Hindu
- English
BRITISH RULE IN INDIA
BRITISH RAJ IN INDIA
British Raj
The East India Company
Was the British Empire good for India, or not?
British Imperialism in India
Indian Independence
INDEPENDENCE
1947
Reasons and partition
- Reasons for Independence
- World War Two and the demands it put on the British government and people.
- Symptoms of the disengagement from empire.
- Partition and religion
- This partition would take place along the subcontinent's north-western and north-eastern boundaries, creating two sovereign nations of India and Pakistan.
- Muslims, as a religious community, comprised only 20% of the population and represented great diversity in economic, social and political terms
- Muslims founded the Muslim League in 1906
MAHATMA GANDHI
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
- Instrumental in liberating India from the clutches of the British.
- He inspired several other political leaders all over the world including Martin Luther King Jr,
- Aung San Suu Kyi and Nelson Mandela.
A Devoted Son
by Anita Desai
SHORT STORY
- Anita Mazumdar
- Born June 24, 1937, Mussoorie, India English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s books who excelled in evoking character and mood through visual images
Thank you for your attention!!
A devoted son
A Devoted Son
First published in the collection Games at Twilight in 1978. It also has appeared in The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories (1991)
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