Major Minnies
- prevent disorder in Satipur on HWD -> duty: keep order
-> worried/ fear: afraid of losing control
Nawab (Muslim)
- tolerates the Muslim-Hindu riots in Khatm on HWD -> ruler without power
-> shows the British their limits
-> refuses to follow advises
-> has religious motivation
-> takes offence at Hindu worshippers taking over
his ancestor’s shrine
Narrator
- critical of festival
- does not take it serious
- does not see the sense
- it is not what she expected
- feels part of it; feels absorved
critisises:
- overcrowded
- noisy
- fair/pleasant cutring
- not religious anymore /lacks devoutness
