taught Hindi and arithmetic. At the age of 12‚ Rajendra Prasad was married to Rajvanshi Devi. Dr. Rajendra Prasad was a brilliant student. He stood first in the entrance examination to the University of Calcutta‚ and was awarded a monthly scholarship of Rs.30. He joined the famous Calcutta Presidency College in 1902. Here his teachers included the great scientist Jagdish Chandra Bose and the highly respected Prafulla Chandra Roy. Later on he switched from Science to Arts and completed his M.A
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in northeast India. On May 24‚ 1931‚ she took the name of ’Teresa’ in honor of St. Teresa of Avila. At first‚ Mother Teresa was assigned to teach a small Geography class at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. Mother Teresa noticed all the beggars‚ lepers‚ and homeless people on the streets of Calcutta. There lives were horrible‚ living on other peoples scraps and letting babies that they couldn’t support die in trash bins. She decided to ask the archbishop if she could stop her teaching and dedicate
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At the turn of the century‚ the dynamism in the global trade patterns meant the replacement and transformation of the earlier regional trade patterns. The avant-garde players‚ especially the newly industrialised United States and the almost phoenix rising of the European nations‚ in particular Germany‚ threatened to undermine the premier position that Britain held during the entire nineteenth century as a creditor nation. Looking at the spiralling current account deficit with the United States‚
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translated into other regional languages of India as well as in English. Bankim Chandra was born to an orthodox Brahmin family at Kanthalpara‚ North 24 Parganas. He was educated at Hoogly College and Presidency College‚ Calcutta. He was one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta. From 1858‚ until his retirement in 1891‚ he served as a deputy magistrate and deputy collector in the Government of British India. [5] Bankim Chandra is widely regarded as a key figure in literary renaissance of
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"American Dreamer" Bharati Mukherjee In "American Dreamer‚" Bharati Mukherjee tells her story of coming to the United States and becoming a citizen. Mukerjee left Calcutta in 1961 to study at the University of Iowa. She was to return back to her family but instead Mukerjee fell in love and married. She moved to Canada‚ where her husband was from. After fourteen years‚ she and her new family moved back to the United States because of the race-related harassments faced in Canada. Once in the
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the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India’s religious and philosophical literature for the English-speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921–1932) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at Oxford University (1936–1952). Radhakrishnan was awarded the Bharat Ratna‚ the highest civilian award in India‚ in 1954. Among the many other honors he received were the British
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Varma that took place in Calcutta‚ India in 1985. The author wrote about Ajit Babu and his wife Swapna‚ a couple left their home city running from the war between Muslims and Hindus. The poor family is struggling to find a better place to live secure and stable and suffering to survive on the poor pension they gets. Ajit Babu’s family had a lot of difficulties to find a better place to live running from a war between Muslims and Hindus. First‚ when they came to Calcutta they had no place to stay
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with his adoptive parents Sue and John Brierley this shows a strong sense of belonging. Saroo encourages the reader to try and imagine what it was like to lives on the streets of Calcutta. The reason why Saroo tries to do this is because he wants to reader to see that there when he was living on the streets of Calcutta he did not have a sense of belonging in that part of his life. When Saroo moved to Australia with his adoptive parents Sue and John Brierley they made it as easy as they could for
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establishment of the First British Court in Bombay in 1672 by Governor Aungier. The admission of attorneys was placed in the hands of the Governor-in-Council and not with the Court. Prior to the establishment of the Mayor’s Courts in 1726 in Madras and Calcutta‚ there were no legal practitioners. The Mayor’s Courts‚ established in the three presidency towns‚ were Crown Courts with right of appeal first to the Governor-in-Council and a right of second appeal to the Privy Council. In 1791‚ Judges felt the
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Mother Teresa‚ also known as “Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta” is one of the most impressive characters of the 19th century. She cared about countless helpless people including the poor and sick. But she was also somewhat controversial in the eyes of many. Not only did she have to face criticism from the people in her new home country but also from the people to whom she devoted her life. She was born in 1910 in Skopje‚ Macedonia. At the age of 18‚ she joined the “Sisters of Loreto” as a missionary
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