The story begins a score years before the Partition of India. ... With the passage of time she gets married and enters into life of marriage. ... The British government had to spend a lot in the war and they tried their best to keep their land in a balanced economic condition ignoring the needs of their colony, the then India. The famine of early '50's is the direct outcome of their war and negligence of India. ... The names of Shama-Huq, Zinnah, Nehru, Suhrawardy, Gandhi, Patel became familiar to literate, half-literate and illiterate people of the then India. ...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Henry wanted to find a water route to India. The passage to India over land was long, slow, and dangerous. ... In 1499, Vasco da Gama was the first sailor to travel from Portugal to India. Just a few years earlier, Queen Isabella of Spain hired a sailor from Genoa to reach India by sailing west. It wasn't until years later that anyone understood that the "Indians" he encountered weren't from India after all. ...

• Word Count: 2251
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

What were the varying motivations of European countries in regards to their expansion into the New World?  Please discuss at least 3 countries and at least 3 of their motivations in your own words. One of the principal reasons for exploration was the urge to find new routes to East Asia. In 1400s, ...

• Word Count: 686
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School