'PTI' - Context Flashcards
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PTI: 1919
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- Amritsar Massacre
- English opened fire on a crowd of Indians
- 379 killed, 1,200 injured
- “Call in the troops and clear the bazaars”
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PTI: January 1960
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- First theatrical production directed by Santa Rama Rau
- “excellent and dramatic version”
- “dramatised a novel written by a foreigner on the subject of her own country”
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PTI: 1812
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- Maria Graham: “I have not been able to get acquainted with any native families”
- “I’ve scarcely spoken to an Indian since landing”
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PTI: 1885
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Gandhi starts his non-violent, non-cooperation movement and was in jail as Forster was writing
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PTI: 1757
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Robert Clive establishes India as a part of the British Empire => displays longevity of colonialism
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PTI: 1857
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- India Mutiny: an unsuccessful uprising against the rule of the British East India Company
- Mrs Blakinston and her anxiety about the “niggers attacked”
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PTI: 1906
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- Forster became friends and tutored an Indian, Seyed Ross Masood
- Transgresses boundary?
CP: “It is impossible here” (India) but is possible in “Cambridge” i.e.: England
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PTI: 1927
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- ‘Aspects of the novels’
- “Novels open out” => link to “the sky said ‘No, not there’”, possible for cross-cultural friendships to occur in other parts of the world
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PTI: 1947
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- India gained independence
- Adela ‘voluntarily’ told the truth in the same way that the British ‘voluntarily’ granted India its independence
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PTI: 1913 + 1921
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- Forster visited India which had “transformed politically and greatly changed socially. I also tried to describe human beings; these may not have altered so much”
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PTI: 1901
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Death of Queen Victoria also known as the Empress of India
