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Item Orientalist Portryal of India inKimandA Passage to India: A Contrapuntal Reading(Department of English, 2009) Paudyal, Madan KumarBoth the writers–Kipling and Forster have ambivalently presented Indian life and culture in their novelsKimandA Passage to Indiarespectively. Kipling's India, in Kim, has quality of permanence and inevitability that belongs not just to that wonderful novel, but of British India, its history, administrators, and apologists and, no less important, to the India fought for by Indian nationalists as their country to be won back. By giving an account of this seriesof pressures and counter pressures in Kipling’s India, the process of imperialism itself as the great work of art engages them. The issues that Forster raises inA Passage to Indiaare of enduring interest. It is unique among English fictions in its presentation of the complex problems which were to be found in the relationship between the British and the Indians and its portrayal of the Indian scene in all its magic and all its wretchedness. By applying the postcolonial theory the researcher claims thatboth the texts have dramatized the dialectics between native India and colonial Britain on orientalist ground.Item Orientalizing the Orient: A Postcolonial Study of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance(Central Department of English, 2010-03) Joshi, PragyaThis research concentrates on Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance in order to stand the writer on the position of an Orientalist who follows the very Western notion of calm and stoic east. The story explores the painful experiences of the characters where they are exploited socially as well as politically. Inspite of their pain end suffering, adoption and accommodation, rather than any social protest is their reaction to it. In the beginning the characters are hopeful for their better future and they struggle hard and this hope is still with them until the very end of the story even after their failure in every field. One member of the foursome, best equipped to succeed economically, kills himself whereas the less fortunates survive with their ability to accept even the great misfortunes as a fine balance between hope and despair. So, a Western understanding of East as an antithesis of tragedy seeps into Mistry’s work and this concept gets exposed her