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    Jawaharlal Nehru

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    Introduction- Jawaharlal Nehru was born on the 14th of November in 1889 in Allahabad‚ in the time when British were conquering India. He always had a rose in his pocket to show that kids were/are like buds/flowering plants in the garden. He was very fond of children‚ so in India they celebrate his birthday‚ as children’s day. He was one of the freedom fighters of India. That shows that he is a very close friend of Mohamdas Karamchand Gandhi. He also like the bird white-dove which he thought represented

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    Work Is Workship

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    "Work is Worship’. This is a very old proverb which means there is no better way to worship God except to be hardworking and this is fully justified what man has achieved during the course of his development is a result of hard work over long periods of time. He owes all his greatness to hard work. Hence‚ it is the root of all success. There is no alternative of hard work. Today man has conquered nature‚ he has set foot on the moon‚ he has travelled in the space‚ he has invented so many life saving

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    Content 1. Acknowledgement 2. Introduction 3. History 4. Of the Indian independence act 1947 5. Effects of the Indian independence act‚ 1947 6. Constitutional position of Indian states after the Indian independence Act 1947. 7. Bibliography Acknowledgement I am very grateful to the Assistance Professor Dr. Sheeba S.Dhar of Department of Law ‚National University Of Advanced Legal Studies‚Kochi for giving me such a valuable topic dissertation. This will help us in the detail study of the topic

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    MODERNITY AND NATIONHOOD IN INDIAN CINEMA MODERNITY‚ NATIONHOOD AND NEHRUVIAN IDEOLOGY AFTER INDEPENDENCE B.A FILM PRODUCTION TERM PAPER SUBMITTED TO ASC-UCLAN SEMESTER- 1 COURSE: REVIEW: READING FILMS COURSE CODE: SUBMIT BY: BHAVNEET SIROHI DATE: 28 JANUARY 2013 INTRODUCTION In this paper I address some of the ways in which ideas of modernity and nationhood is tackled in Hindi films after independence .My primary interest is to understand how modernity and Nationhood was

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    work in their office in Durban. Once Gandhi arrived in Durban he found himself being treated as a member of an inferior race. He was shocked at the denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then "threw" himself into the struggle for basic rights for Indians. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 20 years‚ being imprisoned many times. In 1896‚ after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans‚ Gandhi began to teach a method of "passive resistance

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    long-lasting hostility among Indians towards British rule? Sources 10‚ 11 and 12 suggest that the Amritsar Massacre‚ the incident in which British troops under the order of General Dyer fired at a crowd of Indian protesters on the 13th April 1919‚ did create widespread and long-lasting hostility among Indians towards the British. Creating the British government to be portrayed as repressive and irresponsible. However‚ the alternative view presented by the sources is that Indians were not hostile towards

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    CHANGES IN INDIAN ECONOMY AFTER INDEPENDENCE INDIA’S ECONOMY HAS MADE great strides in the years since independence. In 1947 the country was poor and shattered by the violence and economic and physical disruption involved in the partition from Pakistan. The economy had stagnated since the late nineteenth century‚ and industrial development had been restrained to preserve the area as a market for British manufacturers. In fiscal year (FY--see Glossary) 1950‚ agriculture‚ forestry‚ and fishing accounted

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    Mahatma Gandhi Imperialism

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    most preeminent leaders of the Indian Independence‚ will forever be known as one of the greatest leaders this world has ever seen. Gandhi’s determination to fight for his country has impacted others leading to many outbursts worldwide. Gandhi put forth his life in order to gain India their independence in which was being deprived by the British. India’s inferiority in its education‚ in comparison to the British‚ motivated Gandhi to fight for his Indian Independence from colonialism causing uprisings

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    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi‚ also known as Mahatma‚ “The great-souled one”‚ was an Indian nationalist leader and architect of one of the most famous forms of civil disobedience‚ Satyagraha or more commonly known as non-violent passive resistance. Satyagraha had a large impact on the world and still remains as one of the most potent philosophies in freedom struggles throughout the world today. Gandhi spent some time as an Indian immigrant in South Africa and eventually moved back to India in the early 1900’s

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    Salt Satyagraha

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    triggered the wider Civil Disobedience Movement‚ was an important part of the Indian independence movement. It was a campaign of nonviolent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12‚ 1930. It was the most significant organized challenge to British authority since the Non-cooperation movement of 1920-22‚ and the Purna Swaraj declaration of independence by the Indian National Congress on December 31‚ 1929. Mahatma Gandhi led the Dandi march

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