NEHRU’S ‘THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA’ A Brief Study JAGDISH V. DAVE M. N. College‚ Visnagar (NG)‚ Gujarat The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942-1946 at Ahmednagar in the Ahmednagar Fort. Nehru was jailed for his participation in the Quit India movement along with other Indian leaders‚ and he used this time to write down his thoughts and knowledge about India’s history. The book is widely regarded as a classic
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Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar
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rejection of the recommendations of the Simon Commission by Indians‚ an all-party conference was held at Bombay in May 1928. This was meant to instill a sense of resistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929‚ or a countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929‚ however
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the Kashmir problem have been well delineated. The negative phipty is heavier from my point of view. As for any book of such wide breadth‚ the depth is sadly missing. The whole Nehru era though occupying a third of the book feels shallow when compared to recent works like M.J.Akbar’s spirited biography of Nehru. The post liberalization India is given a cursory glance. To be fair to the author‚ his main intent is to chronicle India till 1989 from when on he reckons history is too close to the
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How far do Sources 10‚ 11 and 12 suggest that the Amritsar Massacre created widespread and 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
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Children’s day Exactly a hundred and twenty-one years ago in Allahabad‚ on 14th November‚ 1889‚ a son was born to an eminent lawyer‚ Motilal Nehru and his wife Swaroop Rani. They named him Jawaharlal. He was an exceptional child‚ brilliant and compassionate and was greatly loved by all. His father wanted to give him the best education and so sent him to England to do his M.A. from Cambridge. On his return to India‚ young Jawaharlal realised that he was not interested in making money through
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SPOKEN ENGLISH AND BROKEN ENGLISH George Bernard Shaw is perhaps one of the most prolific writers of the modern era. Though he is best known as a playwright‚ Shaw was also a respected critic‚ journalist‚ novelist‚ and essayist. A noted social reformer‚ Shaw wrote plays which dramatized social commentaries‚ and in 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. “The gramophone will one day be used for language teaching”‚ prophesied H.G.Wells. Shaw made a special recording on ‘Spoken English
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Mahatma Gandhi‚ was one of the foremost supporters of the Gandhi’s programmes. One of the first women to be imprisoned in Transvaal‚ she took part in the Quit India Movement (1942) and was arrested. She died while imprisoned in Poona. Many women of Nehru family joined the freedom
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Motilal Nehru Public Jamshedpur Yearly Syllabus 2013-2014 X A‚B‚C ENGLISH LITERATURE UT-1 The Sniper‚Drama- Act II‚scene 1-4 FIRST TERM As You Like It: Act III (Scene III ‚IV‚V) Prose:The Sniper‚ Marriage is a private affair‚ Poetry: The Slave’s Dream. Selected portion of VIII & IX to be added UT-2 Project UT‐3 Drama- Act 4 SECOND TREM As You Like It: Act IV (whole)‚ Act V ( Scene I-III) Prose:The gift of the Magi‚How much land does a man require. Poetry: Our Casuarina Tree ‚Because I could
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Books | Authors | A Bend in the river | V.S. Naipaul | A Brush with Life | Satish Gujral | A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib | S.S. Kohli | A Foreign Policy for India | I.K. Gujral | A Fortune Teller Told Me | Tiziano Terzani | A Gender Lens on Social Psychology | Judith A Howard and Jocelyn A.Hollander | A General and His Army | Georgy Vladimov | A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale | A Last Leap South | Vladimir Zhirinovsky | A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History
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