VIOLENCE AND POLITICS OF RESISTANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF TWILIGHT IN DELHI

Attiqa Hussain Alvi, Amna Khalil

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This article attempts to define the term violence emerging from colonization, in liberating the colonized mind or a nation. It explains the violence and politics of resistance through images and events in the novel and focuses on decolonization whether physical or psychological. The novel under consideration in this article is Twilight in Delhi (1940) by Ahmed Ali. His writing voiced concern over the decay of Muslim culture and the injustices of colonial powers. The violence by the colonizer and attempt to reverse that violence in form of liberation is one of the most important perspectives of this article. Ahmed Ali portrayed the destruction of society, culture, moral values, and economy at individual and national level. The change in political setup disturbed the existing monotony of the city. This article explains the text Twilight in Delhi under the light of Concerning Violence, first chapter of the Frantz Fanons book The Wretched of Earth..

 

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violence, politics of resistance, Twilight in Delhi

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Ali, Ahmad. Twilight in Delhi. 7th edition, 2007. Rupa Publications India, 2007.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Trans. in English by Constance Farrington. 1963. Grove Press, 1963, 1961.

Musevni, Yoweri T. "Fonon's Theory of Violence: Its verification in liberated Mozambique." 1971. www.ekitibwakyabuganda. Ed. Nathan M Shamuyarira. Tanzania Pub. House, 1971 [©1972] Dar es Salaam. https://ekitibwakyabuganda.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/origins-of-museveni-politics-of-violence.pdf.

Tharoor, Shashi. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India. Aleph Book Company, 2016.


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