... streamed into the subcontinent: not just boxwallah traders now, but soldiers, scholars and sophisticated young administrators. And as they tried to make themselves at home in alien land, the newcomers laid the foundations of that closed society of splendor and heartache that would later so fascinate E. M. Forster and ... in what later came to be known as the Fishing Fleet; each spring, a few Returned Empties sadly took the long, unmarried journey home. British-Indian society still shone with an air of gilded gentility. Silken canopies graced the private boxes at Calcutta theaters, while ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... the Ganges with Fokir and his son Tutul. The entire part of the story also divided into two, One is the notebook that explains the past that held in Lusibari, Canning, Morichjhapi, Other is the present that held with Kanai, Piya, and Fokir that make up the narrative structure of the novel, are unfolded in a braided manner in alternate chapters, the ... actors and discourses that led to the gruesome massacre is a shameful story of betrayal and of state-sponsored terrorism to evict Indian nationals from the land where they felt at home. It goes to the credit of Amitav Ghosh that he has da...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Western Australia and Queensland they were perceived as a threat by many white pastoralists and were subjected often to acts of pure violence. Confrontations between white people and Aborigines on the Canning stock route were frequent, with the former spearing thousands of cattle and the latter engaging in savage retaliation. In Western Australia a 1905 Royal Commission reported on brutal treatment of Aboriginal ... property. They would have been like every other adventurous young Australian male, wanting to go out and see the world, get paid really good money, see some action and 'be h...

• Word Count: 3196
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate