I'm not the author of the Emancipation Proclamation fill, (whom, may I add, I worship, that fill is so gorgeous) but I saw offhand psuedo-request and I just couldn't resists, orz. Also, I don't know if this is quite what you wanted, but I couldn't write India without her own nation-tan, even if she was subject to the Raj for 250 years.
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After the failed sepoy rebellion of 1957, the British crown took official control of India from the East India Company in 1958. In 1976, Queen Victoria was offically proclaimed Empress of India. England allowed/encouraged several companies to build railroads that would eventually become the Indian Railway system, which is currently the single largest employer in the world.
43,000 Indian soldiers died fighting for the Allies in WWI, and 65,000 were wounded. Mohandas Ghandi, also called Mahatma ("Great Soul) embraced the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist principle of ahimsa, or nonviolence, and lead a revolution of nonviolent resistance against the British regime. After WWII, Britain granted independence to India and Pakistan.
The Tamils, Aryans, and Mughals are various ethnic/religious/political groups that have invaded India, ruled India, and been absorbed into the melting pot. Or at least, stitched into the fabric. (All of those groups and many, many others remain distinct within India, though they are all considered Indian.) The Mughals were Muslim conquerors who ruled much of North India in the period immediately preceding the Raj.
India has over twenty official languages, all of which predominate in different regions. English is, more or less, the common language of the subcontinent, at least among the educated.
Indian bureaucracy is hell. Full stop. HELL. Why they decided bureaucracy was one of the things about Britain worth adopting, the world may never know.
Ganga is the Indian name for the Ganges, the holiest of the 4 holy rives.
The first president of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, approved of socialist and under him India leaned in that direction. Later, however, India was one of the three founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, that sought to provide a coalition for countries that didn't wish to be dominated by either American or Russian interests during the cold war.
As an anon from India, I approve of this fic. Also, I wonder if the writeranon is Indian or not. XDDD
That said, aaah, you've captured some of the best (and worst) things about India. We have accepted all, the English included. I'll never know that thing about the Bureaucracy either. Just. No. ._.
The language is beautiful and sensual and the imagery is excellent. It reminded me of Indian summers and considering I'm already in it, it's not really pleasant. XDD
Also yes, India was closer to Soviet than to USA, and helped in founding NAM. We still have a Communist party, and the Eastern part of the nation is still dominated by them (and they are close to China as well, geographically).
India should have a nation-tan, and considering that India is as old as China, if not older, it surprises me that there isn't already.
Also, sorry for babbling about the country instead of the fic. Loved your Arthur as well. XD *runs*
As an anon from India, I approve of this fic. Also, I wonder if the writeranon is Indian or not.
Possibly the highest compliment I could receive, I think, and thank you kindly. I am not Indian either ethnically or nationally, (european mutt and American, respectively), but I did live in India for a very formative period in my life and I love the country deeply.
That said, aaah, you've captured some of the best (and worst) things about India.
Oh, no wait, there's that compliment. Honestly, thank you so, so much.
India should have a nation-tan, and considering that India is as old as China, if not older, it surprises me that there isn't already.
I half want an India-tan in canon so that there will be more love for her in the fandom, but the other half is certain that any canon portrayal could not possibly match the tan I would want to see, and that would drive me crazy.
Also, HOW BADLY do I want an epic epic epic China/India story entitled "The Girl Next Door" that skims several millenia of history and mostly looks at the cultural differences, and the companionship that exists between them nonetheless, because there are so many things no one else remembers, and ends with them getting married fifty years in the future, and she fixes his political problems and he fixes her organizational problems and then they take over the world?
This was very, very lovely. And you could see just how insidiously, subtly India weaves herself into England just by the way he describes her and how he narrates. Your writing was incredibly sensual, until I could just imagine it there, the overwhelming heat on my skin and the smell of those spices lingering in the air to tantalize the nostrils. I love your personification of India, this strong mysterious wise woman who knows how to be aggressive while seeming passive.
History-bits:
After the failed sepoy rebellion of 1957, the British crown took official control of India from the East India Company in 1958. In 1976, Queen Victoria was offically proclaimed Empress of India. England allowed/encouraged several companies to build railroads that would eventually become the Indian Railway system, which is currently the single largest employer in the world.
43,000 Indian soldiers died fighting for the Allies in WWI, and 65,000 were wounded. Mohandas Ghandi, also called Mahatma ("Great Soul) embraced the Hindu/Jain/Buddhist principle of ahimsa, or nonviolence, and lead a revolution of nonviolent resistance against the British regime. After WWII, Britain granted independence to India and Pakistan.
The Tamils, Aryans, and Mughals are various ethnic/religious/political groups that have invaded India, ruled India, and been absorbed into the melting pot. Or at least, stitched into the fabric. (All of those groups and many, many others remain distinct within India, though they are all considered Indian.) The Mughals were Muslim conquerors who ruled much of North India in the period immediately preceding the Raj.
India has over twenty official languages, all of which predominate in different regions. English is, more or less, the common language of the subcontinent, at least among the educated.
Indian bureaucracy is hell. Full stop. HELL. Why they decided bureaucracy was one of the things about Britain worth adopting, the world may never know.
Ganga is the Indian name for the Ganges, the holiest of the 4 holy rives.
The first president of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, approved of socialist and under him India leaned in that direction. Later, however, India was one of the three founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, that sought to provide a coalition for countries that didn't wish to be dominated by either American or Russian interests during the cold war.
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Also, the deities India prays to during the WWI scene are:
Sri Ram and Krishna - human incarnations of the Hindu god Vishnu, the preserver
Shiva - another Hindu god, the destroyer
Allah - the name of God in Islam
Amitabha Buddha - the Indian name for boddhisattva savior figure in Pure Land devotional Buddhism.
Mahavira - the last of the great holy teachers in Jainism.
Also, I feel bad for forgetting the Sihks. India prayed to that God too, but Arthur just didn't catch it. ^_^
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recaptcha: Mathieu Fek
No, no Canada this time, recaptcha. O_o
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THANK YOU for doing this. Why don't we have India in Hetalia?!?! :(
(Captcha sez "Loving Roses")
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That said, aaah, you've captured some of the best (and worst) things about India. We have accepted all, the English included. I'll never know that thing about the Bureaucracy either. Just. No. ._.
The language is beautiful and sensual and the imagery is excellent. It reminded me of Indian summers and considering I'm already in it, it's not really pleasant. XDD
Also yes, India was closer to Soviet than to USA, and helped in founding NAM. We still have a Communist party, and the Eastern part of the nation is still dominated by them (and they are close to China as well, geographically).
India should have a nation-tan, and considering that India is as old as China, if not older, it surprises me that there isn't already.
Also, sorry for babbling about the country instead of the fic. Loved your Arthur as well. XD *runs*
Sculptures taketh, o rly captcha?
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Possibly the highest compliment I could receive, I think, and thank you kindly. I am not Indian either ethnically or nationally, (european mutt and American, respectively), but I did live in India for a very formative period in my life and I love the country deeply.
That said, aaah, you've captured some of the best (and worst) things about India.
Oh, no wait, there's that compliment. Honestly, thank you so, so much.
India should have a nation-tan, and considering that India is as old as China, if not older, it surprises me that there isn't already.
I half want an India-tan in canon so that there will be more love for her in the fandom, but the other half is certain that any canon portrayal could not possibly match the tan I would want to see, and that would drive me crazy.
Also, HOW BADLY do I want an epic epic epic China/India story entitled "The Girl Next Door" that skims several millenia of history and mostly looks at the cultural differences, and the companionship that exists between them nonetheless, because there are so many things no one else remembers, and ends with them getting married fifty years in the future, and she fixes his political problems and he fixes her organizational problems and then they take over the world?
Answer: Very, very badly.
...uh, /tangent.
sorry for babbling about the country
*geeks out over India with you*
Thank you again. *chases you playfully*
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If only there really was an India-tan!
Good job, writer-anon!
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