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By Meera Syal Anita and Me
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Is Meera Syals first novel Was made into a film in 2002, in
which she starred.
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Meera Syal Is an actress, writer and novelist with a number of
TV, theatre and film credits. She has written for and appeared in
two BBC hit comedies The Real McCoy and Goodness Gracious Me. She
played the lead in the short film Its Not Unusual.
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Anita and Me Things you need to know before reading the book...
This is a story about growing up in Britain in the sixties and
seventies a childhood caught between two cultures, each on the
brink of change.
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Anita and Me Its 1972 Meena is 9 years old She lives in the
village of Tollington (a fictional ex- mining village outside
Birmingham) in the black country. The Black Country is a loosely
defined area of the English West Midlands, to the north and west of
Birmingham, and to the south and east of Wolverhampton. By the late
19th century, this area had become one of the most intensely
industrialised in the nation.West Midlands Birmingham
Wolverhampton
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Anita and Me She is the daughter of Indian parents who have
come to England to give her a better life. Anita Rutter is a girl
that lives near Meena. Anita is blonde, cool, aloof and naughty.
Meena really wants to be like Anita.
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The Partition of India British involvement in India began in
the 18 th century. In 1857, Britain placed India under its direct
control. After the Second World War, it was clear that Britain
could no longer maintain its control over India. Some people in
India wanted a separate Muslim state. In June 1947, it was agreed
that Pakistan would be formed out of the majority Muslims areas,
and India out of the majority Hindu areas. This was called the
Partition of India.
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The Partition of India The large provinces of Punjab and Bengal
would be divided. The Sikh community, which lived mainly in the
Punjab, had to choose between the two nations. Massive population
movements happened after the Partition, accompanied by outbreaks of
violence. Nearly 15 million people moved to areas that they
believed would be safe based on the religious majority.
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The Partition of India All communities suffered violence. It is
estimated up to a million people were killed during the Partition.
For many people, particularly those from the Punjab, the social and
economic disruption caused by the Partition drove them to leave for
Britain. Some had family who served in the British Army and for
others, earlier patterns of migration meant that they had relatives
already living in Britain.
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In 1947, the border between India and its new neighbour
Pakistan became a river of blood, as the exodus erupted into
rioting.
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Millions left for their promised new homeland with smiles on
their faces as trains left both India and Pakistan. This is a train
to Pakistan being given a warm send-off.
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Over 15 million people were uprooted from their homeland and
travelled on foot, bullock carts and trains to their promised new
home.
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An aged and abandoned Muslim couple and their grand children
sitting by the roadside on this arduous journey.
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In a couple of months in the summer of 1947, a million people
were slaughtered on both sides in the religious rioting. Here,
bodies of the victims of rioting are picked up from a city
street.
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The massive exchange of population that took place in the
summer of 1947 was unprecedented. It left behind a trail of death
and destruction. The Indian map was slashed to make way for a new
country - Pakistan.
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"The street was short and narrow. Lying like the garbage across
the street and in its open gutters were bodies of the dead," writes
Bourke-White's biographer Vicki Goldberg of this scene.
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With the tragic legacy of an uncertain future, a young refugee
sits on the walls of Purana Qila, transformed into a vast refugee
camp in Delhi.
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Men, women and children who died in the rioting were cremated
on a mass scale. Villagers even used oil and kerosene when wood was
scarce.
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The migration was a "massive exercise in human misery,"
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Families were cut to half as men were killed leaving women to
fend for themselves.