Analyse the nature of India-China bilateral relations in light of diverging regional and global interests. Identify how India and China can work together to ensure mutual benefit and stability in Asia.

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Q5. Answer all of the following questions in about 150 words each: 10x5=50 (a) Analyse the ways in which Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim addresses the ideological and moral consequences of colonialism and racism. 10 (b) Elaborate how guilt, sin and confession contribute to Stephen's moral and psychological development in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 10 (c) Examine the characters in Sons and Lovers from a psychoanalytical perspective. 10 (d) Analyse how E.M. Forster employs the tripartite structure in A Passage to India to explore the limits of cross-cultural understanding. 10 (e) Examine Mrs. Dalloway as a novel that explores its deepest concerns through the themes of medicine, empire, and love. 10