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Assignment 1

Topic: MIGRATIONS - Keki N Daruwallah

Question(s): What, according to you, is the impact of the migration of people after the Partition of
India on the poet? Do you think the poem is a tribute to the people who had to undergo migration
due to partition?

Date of Original Submission: 27 Aug 2021 Turned in before the deadline: NO

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 The Partition of India was the division of British India into two independent
Dominions,the INDIA and PAKISTAN. In August 1947, British India won its independence from
theBritish and split into two new states that would rule themselves. The new countries wereIndia
and Pakistan. East Pakistan has since become Bangladesh..The partition of India led to migration
of people. The migration was forced. The Hindus and Muslims were forced to deprecate due to
persecution, religion differences, and because the British rule was harsh and didnt give them any
freedom. It is said that the Indian-Pakistan partition is one of the largest forced migrations.
According to me, this migration of people after the partition of India had a great impact on our
poet Keki N Daruwallah and even gave birth to the very thoughtful poem ’Migration’.
In the poem ‘Migrations’, Keki Daruwala, very poignantly brings out the trials and
tribulations of the migrants. He depicts the pain, a migrant who is forced to leave behind
everything that he has and make his home in another land.
These migrations cause a lot of loss on the way and it leaves an indelible scar on the
migrants’mind. This has been very beautifully portrayed by Keki Daruwala. He states that any sort
of migration is difficult whether it be place or time.

Migrations is one of the notable works of Daruwalla in which the concept of diaspora has been
highly eminent. It has entailed that an essential aspect in the search of self is the nature of recalling
the near and dear ones. The poem has upheld a yearning and longing of the poet for
hismother.Apparently, the poet has been more attached with his father. However, the longing for
his mother after he has departed from his mother has been clearly evident in this poem. In the
same piece of work, the concept of diaspora has been striking in terms of his talent to make the
imagery of curfew, riot and rareness live. In this poem, he has dealt with the gruesome theme of
disintegration of the Indian village community . His immeasurable anguish has been deep-rooted
in the institutionalised corruption. However, the poetry Migrations is more concerned about the
signs of homelessness that are springing rightly from loss of cultural bonding and tie-ups.

The Partition of India had a huge emotional and psychological impact on millions of people
living in India in the 1940s. In August 1947, British India won its independence from the
British and split into two new states that would rule themselves. This forced millions of people to
leave their homes to move to the other state.the poem MIGRATIONS by Keki N Daruwallah is
definitely a tribute to the people who had to undergo migration due to partition.

Assignment 2

Topic: THE BABUS OF NAYANJORE- RABINDRANATH TAGORE

Question(s): ‘Conflict is an integral part of the short story The Babu’s of Nayanjore be it the conflict
between the classes or the conflict between different generations’. Comment citing suitable examples
from the text.
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Colonialism especially British Colonialism in India has a great impact on Indian
culture.In the colonial period, the undivided Bengal society rapidly coloured itself in
English that is British culture but not fully rather hybrid culture. At that time, Bengal is
famous for socalled Babu Culture. These so-called Babus create a kind of colonialism in
the undivided Bengal as the Britishers did. But Rabi Thakur depicts this so called Babu
Culture in his short story Grandfather
quite differently. In Grandfather Tagore presents the Babus of Nayanjore sarcastically.
The title‘Babu’ is just like the title ‘Raja’ or ‘Rai Bahadur’ to the common people. The
Babus of Nayanjore, as Rabindranath depicted, “wore dhotis of Dhaka muslin after
tearing off the edges,because the stiffness of the borders hurt their sensitive babu skins.
They spent a hundred thousand rupees to celebrate their kittens’ weddings. It was
rumoured that once during some
festival, vowing to turn night into day, they lit innumerable bright lamps and by that
light, simulated sunbeams by showering pure silver thread from above”Rabi Thakur
depicts a kind of difference between “the declining feudal order and the new capitalism”
based on socio-economic system. Kailaschandra Ray Choudhuri, “an extinguished lamp
of the famous
Babu family of Nayanjore” represents “the declining feudal order” and the unnamed
young eligible bachelor, basically the narrator, neighbor in Calcutta, represents “the new
capitalism”. Although the declining feudal pride is hollow it is harmless than the
uncompromising, malicious new capitalism that is comparatively harmful for human
beings. We see at the beginning of the story,the narrator doesn’t like Kailaschandra due
to his false pride as well as Kailas babu’s family reputation that “the Babus of Nayanjore
never approached anyone with any prayer”. The narrator’s hostility to Kailas Babu is
clearly penned as Rabi Thakur wrote: “I have already mentioned that Kailas Babu had a
granddaughter. I had seen her many times but did not think she was beautiful; hence the
idea of marrying her never crossed my mind. Nonetheless I had expected that Kailas
Babu, either in person or through emissaries, would initiate the ritual of
worship with his granddaughter as offering, seeing that I was such a fine young man. But
he did no such thing”. The neighbours called Kailas Babu as “Grandfather”. Though they
know the exact present economic condition of Kailas Babu, they never put him down
rather they treats him
affectionately except the narrator who planned to hurt his feudal pride by presenting his
friend as an Englishman better to say the Lieutenant- Governor who will come to see
Kailas Babu in his house. What is important in this story is not only to present Babu
Culture sarcastically but also to present modernity through his female character. Kusum,
Kailas Babu’s granddaughter, is a main
key to bridge the two different systems: “the declining feudal order and the new
capitalism”.
The class conflict and the conflict between different generations in the tale ‘THE BABUS
OF NAYANJORE by Rabindranath Tagore ironically bring together the new and the
old,the rich and the poor,and the modern and the traditional.
Assignment 3

Topic: CIA 1
Question(s): Elucidate on the various reasons listed by the narrator for his dislike of Kailash Babu.
Elaborate on the reason for his change of perception towards the end of the story.
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In the story ‘THE BABUS OF NAYANJORE’ by Rabindranath Tagore, the

narrator dislikes the central character Kailash Babu for many reasons. The Babus at
Nayanjore were famous landholders, noted for their princely extravagance and Kailash
Babu being the last relic of this extinct magnificence whereas the narrator was from a
normal middle class family in Calcutta but was fortunate enough to receive best education
and was able to make his way in the world.He believed this was why he disliked seeing
Kailas Babu drawing his heavy cheques on the public credit from the bankrupt bank of his
ancient Babu reputation. Then he supposed the real reason of the dislike was Kailash
Babu’s stupidity because with regard to Nayanjore, his utterances were certainly void of
common sense and our young narrator considers stupidity as the worst of crimes. But the
narrator finds out there is a still deeper reason for his dislike. He believes that in this
world’s endless time and boundless space, one may be born at last to match his sovereign
grace and he found the one whom being Kailash Babu’s granddaughter. This was the inner
secret of his dislike that even though he know that Kailash Babu would offer her, the
narrator was thoroughly annoyed at the fact that he had not done so already.

But towards the end of the story, one contradictory incident happens
while the narrator asks Kailash Babu for his granddaughter’s hand in marriage, he tries to
feed into Thakur Dada’s pride by complimenting his lineage but to his surprise, for the first
time, he confessed to being poor thereby coping up with the reality. This completely
changed the narrator’s entire perspective about Kailash Babu’s behaviour and was indeed
an eyeopener.

Assignment 4

Topic: CIA 1
Question(s):Why does Keki N Daruwallah introduce his mother and grandmother to the reader only in
the last stanza of Migrations? What is your interpretation of this interesting inclusion?
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Keki N Daruwallah introduces his mother and grandmother to the reader

only in the last stanza as he wanted it to be personal and wanted to include something from
the heart at the end of the poem. He also wanted to give the readers an understanding of the
pain and uncertainty of his current living conditions.

My interpretation of this interesting inclusion is that he depicted his mother as a

representation of his motherland which was India but now Pakistan whereas the
grandmother being the representation of his Iranian roots as he was brought up in
Afghanistan. He is then worried and haunted by the realization that as the time passes, he
may not remember his own motherland as he was uprooted from his native roots and
strongly believes that he can’t do anything about it as he specifies that time is set in stones
and we are helpless of the frozen past.

Name of the Student:NIKITHA MARIYA

Register Number:2130120
Class: 1 CEP A