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Anita Mazumda Desai, was born on the 24th of June 1937. To the parents of Toni Nime a German origin,and A Bengali businessman N.D. Muzamda, in Mussooire. She is a Indian novelist and story writer. She started to write in English at the age of seven, and published her first story at the age of nine. Anita was educated in Delhi at Queen Mary's Higher Secondary School, and Miranda House and Delhi University where she received her B.A in English Literature. And as a novelist she made her first debut in 1963 with The Peacock.
The partition of India was i time in history both Indian and British that changed life in India and Britain. This period was when British arrived in India and took control ruled in the 18th century. This partition divided a strong bond between the Hindus and Muslims. The British under the Divide and conquer principal was brought into play ad compromised to divide and relinquish to accommodate the Muslims. Due to this the Indian National Congress, the premier body of nationalist opinions, encouraged Indian Muslims to forge a distinct political and cultural identity. Which led to the bulk of the scholarly literature on the partition.
The difference between Muslim and Hindu are that :
1. Muslims believe in one god they call Allah, while Hindus believe in three gods.
2.The Muslims believe everything in the world belongs to God (meaning eg. the trees are God's, they believe in the apostrophe when it comes to God). While the Hindus believe everything has it own god (eg. for the trees there is a tree god).
3.Muslims believe everyone is equal while the,Hindus have their own hierarchy of the social class/pyramid.
4.Muslims eat all wholesome foods including meat(eg. cow icken etc.). While Hindus don't eat cow because they believe the cow is sacred and therefore is removed from Hindu dietary.
5.And the Muslims believe in body and soul. In that the soul is separated from the body at death. While the Hindus believe the opposite, in that the soul is returned to the body after death.
The traditional ideas of women in India in this modern time is that they are equal to men economically, politically, socially, educationally and legally. But in midevil times women were considered inferior to men. They had no rights and could not own anything.
Ghandi was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian Independence movement.And on his way to a prayer meeting on january 30th, 1948, he was shot.