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Item Fallible Narration: ANew Historical Reading in Rushdie'sMidnight's Children(Department of English, 2008) Dhungana, AnangaInMidnight’s Children,the narrator, Saleemdoes not accurately recount the events in recent Indian history.At times he makes mistakes on details or dates, but he makes them intentionally, in order tocomment on the unreliability of historical and biographical accounts. Rushdie's writing reflects the rephrasing and reworking of a writer’s or a narrator’s mind. He also addresses the reader in the informal second person, and in so doing engages the readerin his life story much as a story teller engages his listeners.Saleem is ahomodiegetic narratorwho can enter the fictional world and distort the reality by imposinghis personal and subjective experiences as a character in the story.As a result, his identity is divided into two agents: one is the narrator and another is the focalizer. As a focalizer, he imposes his perspective in the focalizing process. Hence, his telling of history and focalization of the focalized turns to be misreading and misguiding. To avoid such danger of misreading, according to narratologists, counterfocalization is needed and to investigate the power-relation in the focalization, according to new historicists, alternative reading is required. Saleem as the focalizer and his focalization is fallible because he is unable to narrate the story properly. Thus, readers have to be critical by means of counterfocalzation and alternative reading depending on silences, gaps, incomplete voice and voice which are uttered but not clarifiedby the focalizer.Item Religious and Communal Antagonism in Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Moor’s Last Sigh(Faculty of English, 2009) Rijal, Tapendra PrasadNot availableItem Rushdie as Outsider inMidnight's Children(Department of English, 2008) Bhatta, Hem PrasadThis research project aims to show Salman Rushdie's position in his novel, Midnight's Childrenas 'Outsider' hypothesizing that 'a native son of India by birth, though seems to be unprejudiced towards his country, but has prejudices of disadvantages' who dares to continue the colonial discourse constructed by the west over the non-West in general and India in particular. Whileoutlining the thesis chapter-wise, chapter one, two, three and four include introduction, discussion of the tool, application of the tool and conclusion simultaneously.Item Violence on Women: Sikh Perception of 1947 Partition inWhat the Body Remembers(Department of English, 2006) Sharma, PrahladShauna Singh Baldwin's debut novel,What the Body Remembersis a recently published novel (1999). The novel is set in Punjab between 1937 to 1947, the final decade of the colonial era in India. The text presents the patriarchal institution of Pre- Independence India society, which required women to be object in marriage and sexuality with little opportunity for individuality. They are supposed to be good daughters, wives and mothers moving only from the protection of their father's roof to the protection of their husband. Women were confined within the narrow boundaries of domesticity. They were expected to be chaste and obedient to their husband and motherly and protective to their children. However, as the official partition of India in 1947 was negotiated by 'nationalist' leaders on all sides, large segments of the population underwent violent dislocations across what was to become the Indo-Pakistan border. There journey of Hindu to India and Muslim to Pakistan left in their wakea series of horrific mutilation suffered by people in cities, small towns and village, in their homes and on their bodies. Women's bodies often because the markers on which the painful scripts of contending nationalism (Hindu, Muslim or Sikh) were inscribed. In response to the mass rapes and abduction as both sides of the border and in order to legislate a 'fair' exchange of abducted women across borders, the government of India and Pakistan signed the Inter-Dominion in 1947. My research is divided intofour chapters. The first chapter deals with the methodology" Reflection on the Genocide and uprooted Sikh women during partition violence" with special reference to Urvashi Butalia'sThe Other Side of Silence, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin'sBorder and Boundaries. The second chapter is about the Feminist Perception of Partition violence. Third and final chapter is the conclusion of the thesis.7