... feeling is that America is a very insular market. That it has a small group of intellectuals, literary people, but very small, and the rest of the country's basically not interested in anything else that goes on in the world...So I was completely astounded to how open it has been to this book; I didn't expect it." Ms. Roy appears very well grounded and surprisingly free of ... and Rahel. Their mother, Ammu, has been ostracized by her family and society in the small town of Ayemenem where they live, because she had the audacity to divorce the drunken, abusive man she married. The action ...

• Word Count: 2800
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

... but the people did have to do forced labor for the country once or twice a month. Obviously, the want was great to die and move on to a better life. The lowest of all castes were called the untouchables they were made up of many different sub castes the most common of which was the candaas. The life of ... privilege because they are needed in the fields by their parents forcing the to discontinue their education. They can be married at anytime, the most appropriate age is in the teen years. When they are married, the wife comes to live in the husband's family house. Even after the marri...

• Word Count: 3553
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

... and that God wants him to be kind. Ronny is uncomfortable about religion, and Mrs. Moore regrets that the conversation has shifted away from Adela. Aziz does not attend the party, which occurs on the anniversary of his wife's death. When he recovers from his grief, he borrows Hamidullah's pony, and goes to play polo with ... and they hastily go their separate ways. Before Fielding can leave, Aziz crossly calls him back into the house, where he shows him a picture of his wife--a great confidence. The two men talk about India and the English, and Fielding tells Aziz that he never worries a...

• Word Count: 4695
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

... provides some comic relief. At first it appears that the novel may turn into a domestic comedy. All the elements combine to make this possible: family celebrations, the strife between generations, the husband-wife bickering, the children's education and hobbies and hopes for the future, and the escapades of the neighbors. Although this attention to domesticity and family affairs continues throughout the novel, it serves as a backdrop and as a contrast to ... seem self-imposed or a result of his overdrawn sensitivity, he finally succumbs to what he considers the hypocrisy of his country'...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... provides some comic relief. At first it appears that the novel may turn into a domestic comedy. All the elements combine to make this possible: family celebrations, the strife between generations, the husband-wife bickering, the children's education and hobbies and hopes for the future, and the escapades of the neighbors. Although this attention to domesticity and family affairs continues throughout the novel, it serves as a backdrop and as a contrast to ... seem self-imposed or a result of his overdrawn sensitivity, he finally succumbs to what he considers the hypocrisy of his country'...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... be divided into six natural regions: the Northern Mountains, the Submontane Plateau, the Indus Plain, the Balochistan Plateau, the Western Bordering Mountains, and the desert areas. The only visible physical feature of Pakistan is the Indus River which carves its way thru the center of the country splitting it in half, and its border with the Arabian Sea to the south, where the Indus River empties itself into. The Northern and Western Highlands cover much ... agrarian societies. Most families live together in large extended families. A woman's place in society is low, and she is restric...

• Word Count: 3290
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 17,000 animals and nearly 14,000 birds, yet he was a great patron of the arts. His successor, Shah Jahan, secured his throne by murdering rivals, yet he was also the romantic who built an exquisite shrine, the Taj Mahal, to the memory of a beloved wife. Jahangir's father, Akbar, the greatest Mogul emperor, prudently married Hindu princesses, observed Hindu festivals and even placed Hindus in ... high office. Thus, even those he displaced were inclined to see him not as the head of a Muslim state, but simply as ... to murdering every foreign man, woman or child they could lay hands on. W...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... an ardent congressman till 1920. Return to India (1896) He returned to India in 1896.Mean while he has lost wife and beloved mother. Heavy-hearted, he reached Bombay and got him self-enrolled in the Bombay high court in 1897.The business of his father was in complete ruin. He passed three years in agony. Presidency Magistrate One day his friend ... organized properly, they will be greatly helpful in the freedom movement of the nation". He said that he difference between the Hindus and the Muslims was like the difference of the Tories and the Labour Party in England and the Democrats and...

• Word Count: 7455
• Approx Pages: 30
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School