... become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known ... world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... become his audience, even though the wide reception of Mistry's fiction set in the milieu of a minority religious community and focused on Indian political events does raise some questions. First, are Western readers just plain curious about the Parsis? After all, they are probably most widely known ... world, a world awash with dangers to personal fulfillment and identity. Another question arises when considering the two novels: does the expose of political corruption and tyranny during Indira Gandhi's tenure still hold that much interest? She is long dead, assassinated, and her sons a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to have existed between the Greek and the Indian Royal houses. Asoka, the grandson of Candragupta (Chandragupta), who succeeded to the vast dominions of the Maurya empire, further extended its boundaries during the early years of his reign. the horrors of war that followed from the aggressive policy of the early years of his reign, made a profound effect on his mind ... task in 1990. The Tigers had agreed to a ceasefire but violence flared almost immediately when a breakaway Tamil group unilaterally declared an independent homeland. The Sri Lankan government oscillated between political ...

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... it give its distinct aroma. Religion, historical events and globalization have been deemed as the three main antecedent that influence culture Religion has rigid boundaries that cultural values constantly transgress. Infact even at times religion crosses religion boundaries for example the practice of polygamy is allowed in Islam (up till 4 wives) but in our eastern culture the news of a person walking the ... to legitimise the domination by one culture over the others, a domination that is due, moreover, not to its fundamental cultural value but to extra-cultural factors, whether techn...

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... and define its lifestyle thereby setting clear demarcations among the members of a certain society. In the Philippines, labels such as upper, middle, lower class are commonly used to identify these boundaries. The labels though they may not be concretely used, have attached qualities, such as weak or poor purchasing power, insufficient or sufficient educational attainment, blue collar or white collar profession ... and that is inequality in the access to social rewards such as money, prestige, and influence which are all dictated by the characteristics of a class. It follows, then, that...

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... of the nations citizens remained poor and heavily dependent on their agriculture for employment. They turned to agriculture due to their high population and population swells in the past decades. Political factors, such as the war of secession waged successfully by East Pakistan, currently Bangladesh, in 1971 and a coup in 1977, also slowed economic growth and modernization. In 1999 Pakistan ... around Karachi and Lahore contrasts with the poverty of the Punjab areas, the semiarid Balochistan, and the North-West Frontier Province. Pakistan is a poor, heavily populated country, suffering ...

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... century to gain control of the Indian government which would convey substantial economic advantages. Organizations were created during this period to enhance the various political, cultural, social, economic and religious interest Indians and Indian Muslims. These premier bodies of nationalist opinion of India and Pakistan were the ... over to their side, the British helped support the All-India Muslim Conference. They instilled the notion that the Muslims were a separate political entity and gave the Muslims separate electorates in local government all over British India. Thus the idea...

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... the child-bearer or the mother. For her, therefore, renunciation has two meanings- one in terms of the spirit and the other in terms of the political statement. Khandelwal's woman renunciate sends out a strong political statement and flouts her societal duties by choosing the path that steers away from the household- from motherhood. For her, it is therefore glaringly true that even ... master. Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of cast...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate