Essays on Bhagat Singh

“Gandhi” is an acclaimed movie that presents a staged version of life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The movie was directed by Richard Attenborough in the year 1982. Gandhi was a great leader of India who fought British to get independence and earned it in the year 1947. Though he fought English but not through the guns or violence. Gandhi was a firm believer in the non-violence and by applying the idea of non-violence, he earned India’s freedom. The movie presents his life, principles and his struggle in a communicative manner. This paper aims to propose a discussion on the movie, “Gandhi” and further ...

Introduction

It is true that Asians presence on the American soil highlighted various fundamental cleavages in the American society. These Asian immigrants faced hostility in their new land. Bhagat Singh Thind was actually an Indian- American Sikh lecturer and writer on spirituality. He was an immigrant to United States and was involved in a crucial legal battle over Indians rights to obtain United States citizenship in a case titled Bhagat Singh Thind case. Therefore, Thind was the defendant in this case, which would result in exclusion of all the Asians from procuring naturalized citizenship. Up to the year 1923, South Asians racial ...

Historical background

Bhagat Singh Thind case was filed by an Indian origin man Bhagat Singh Thind in which he wanted the supreme court of the United States to declare that he was eligible to become the US citizen by Naturalization (261 U.S 204,1923).In the case, Thind argued that he was an Indian who belonged to the Aryan group and therefore he could be categorized as of Caucasian race (white) based on Aryan theory that had been formulated and grouped human beings into five racial groups which included the whites referred to as Caucasians. In the case the supreme court ...