Kamala Markandaya Author of “Minute on Indian Education” Wrote a play called “Death and the King Horseman.” Her most famous novel is “Nectar in a Sieve”

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Kamala Markandaya Author of “Minute on Indian Education” Wrote a play called “Death and the King Horseman.” Her most famous novel is “Nectar in a Sieve” Thomas Babington Macaulay Wole Soyinka

He lead Indians to independence by peace. 1930Samuel Taylor Wrote a poem called “Work Without Hope” Gandhi Women protest British imperialism in India.

Jawaharlal Nehru delivers famous speech “Tryst With Destiny” Gandhi lead a salt march in protest against British taxes on salt. Salman Rushdie made a novel called the “Satanic Verses”

Ayatollah Khomeini Sikh men rattle their sabers in protest of the storming of the Golden Temple. The Babri Masjid mosque was overtaken by Hindu nationalist. Pronounced execution for Salman Rushdie

Homi Bhabha Called “ The founding father of modern Indian poetry.” Irish poet wrote “ The Second Coming” Used the term “hybridity” to signify the appearance of cultures. Nisssim EzekielWilliam Butler Yeats