CORE OF TOBA TEK SINGH

 April 2nd, 2021

"THE EMERALD"

Akshaya.B

20SJCCC304

REPORT

Creative expression helps an individual to articulate their feelings and thoughts. I have chosen the creative expression of painting and brief textual. The painting helps in conveying the emotions, feelings and also the events which had taken place as we do not get an idea of what would have taken place during the historical times, it also serves as an important source in reconstructing the history of medieval India. The brief textual is used in order to explain my content and ideology. It engages a reader, quickly allowing them to focus on key themes and story lines. Also, as they are short in length, it gives the less than patient reader a quick payoff.  

In this creative mode of expression, I have taken “Toba Tek Singh” as a place where a king Tek Singh ruled. The history that I have chosen professes about cruelty, greediness, breaking of trust and how a disastrous epilogue has the partition arising. It also talks about peace, unity and harmony. Due to the death of the king everything had come to an end and the partition had well taken place. Whereas, if the guard was not greedy and guarded the king the consequences would have taken place in a different manner.  

A creative mode of expression is a great way to convey our thoughts quickly to a reader, without them reading through a lot of text. It can be easily shared by other people, which means that it will be seen by a larger audience. A creative mode of expression is important in an historical reimagination as it would serve as a source for the readers to connect and imagine the events that had occurred and also in reconstructing those events. They give us a detailed account of information concerning a specific period and about the nature of culture.

The historical context that I have selected is about a king, who because of the trust he had on his bodyguard lost the unity and harmony of his country by partition of “India and Pakistan” taking place and as well lost his own life and about a bodyguard, who was so greedy, cruel and the main objective for the king’s death and partition. At first it is seen that the guard saves the king life from the merchants but later he himself turns out to kill the king as he becomes greedy after he learns about the worth of the stone ornament. The king did not want to break the unity of his country and decided to settle the dispute by taking a group of people from his side to talk with the mass of people, from those he had received the letter stating about the partition, but the bodyguard of the king was so greedy and cruel that he stopped the king from doing so, since the guard had his own mind plot created in order to kill the king and take away the precious “stone ornament” from him. And finally the guard succeeds in his plot against the king, the king is dead and also the partition is not stopped and happens to occur. Here, we can see that the good thinking of the king does not take place and is put an end but whereas the evil thinking of the guard occurs and is also benefited.

If the mentality of the guard did not change in order to acquire the “stone ornament” and still cared about the safety of his king and country then the partition would have not taken place, and the consequences would have been totally dissimilar. If the guard would have still stayed loyal to the king even after knowing the worth of the stone ornament, then his plan of killing the king would have not happened and the king would have been able to settle the dispute regarding the partition and also “India and Pakistan” would have still stayed as one united country.

The partition was deeply scarring and traumatic, changing their lives dramatically, uprooting them from places and communities where they had lived. Due to the occurring of partition, India and Pakistan faced a lot of emergencies in economy shortages, millions of deaths, people were displaced, and also terrorism prevailed.