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Item British-Indian and Hindu-Muslim Relationship in A Passage to India(Department of English, 2006) Pandit, DineshA Passage to Indiais presented from oriental perspective E.M.Forster as a writer belongs to the colonial block and his work as a liberal humanism comes under the shadow. The domination of orientalist culture is overt throughout the novel. Forester's mind, thoughts and activities are circumscribed by orienalist perspective. This orentalist thought creates the picture of supremacy of Anglo-Indian characters upon native- Indian characters. He belongs to different culture. There is a conflict between two different culture related people like British, Indians and native-Indian (Hindus and Muslim). The cultural conflict is the major discussion of the research. People of different culture people have different practices. Forster faces difficulty to inscribe the cultural practices held in India. Forster belongs to alien culture, however, he attempts to translate the Indian culture. As he picks the Muslim as a protagonist of the novel from the majority population from the Hindus city named Chndarpore. In his attempt to represent 'real India', Forester is failure.Item Exploration of Cross-Cultural Solidarity in Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States(Department of English, 2011) Tiwary, Tek BahadurThis research examines the cross-cultural solidarity between North and South Indian cultures in Chetan Bhagat’s 2 States. These two cultures of India have played an inevitable role for the sake of Indian nationality. The central characters of the novel, Krish and Ananya represent two diverse cultures. Though Krish and Ananya are one for cross-cultural harmony, but their parents are stubborn in their regional cultures. Anyway, with the passage of time, Krish and Ananya become successful to coax their parents for cross-cultural love marriage. The cross-cultural love marriage between Krish and Ananya deconstructs the deep-rooted attitudes of South and North Indian people regarding inter-state homogenous cultural marriage which was exercised in Indian for a long time. At last, these two cultures reconcile for nationality.Item Longing for Cultural Identity in Khuwant Singh's Train to Pakistan(Department of English, 2013) Bhandari, Chitra BahadurThis research has explored the cultural identity in Khuswant’s Singh’s Train to Pakistan. The central character is displaced from own culture but when defines his cultural existence into alien land where he feels gap between own and other's culture. Cultural pattern shapes human way of living that is internalized along with our socio- cultural location. By living with alien culture, he comes to know meaning of culture. He experiences cultural gap between own culture and another culture then it defines cultural values. Iqbal retrieves his cultural position and identity into own culture. Thus, Iqbal quest of cultural identity leads the research work.Item Portrayal of Cultural Conflict in Amy Tan’s The Kitchen God’s Wife(Department of English, 2009) Nepal, BinodThe present research is a study on cultural misunderstanding and confusion between first generation American daughter Pearl and her immigrant Chinese mother Winnie. As products of different cultures and histories, mother and daughter abide by different cultural values and possess different modes of interpretation. Therefore cultural conflict exists by the interaction and the revelation of secrets between Chinese immigrant mother Winnie whose ways of thinking and doings are thoroughly. Chinese in spite of her many years of American residency and her Americanized second generation daughter Pearl who has been cultivated with American ideals of freedom and democracyItem Postcolonial Poetics of Animosity in Walcott's Poetry(Department of English, 2009) Sharma, MaheshwarWalcott's oeuvre is the paradigm of postcolonial situation vice-a-vis hybridity and ambivalent state of being. His poetry evokes the poetics of animosity with both his inherited cultures particularly in the context of conflict between both the cultures. Miscegenated, Walcott’s diatribe and his humanistic concern towards the evils of colonization establishes his love-hate relationship with both the colonizer’s and the colonized. His journey reassembling the fragmented history is further fragmented with the raising conflict between both his inherited bloods. Walcott poeticizes this situation. His bio-culturally divided loyalties and split consciousness initiates affliction raising to the height of outrage during cultural conflict.