background and career as a whole. Indira was born into the Nehru family whom had a strong political background all on its own. Indira’s father‚ Jawaharlal‚ and her grandfather‚ Motilal‚ were both members of the Indian National Congress‚ which was very sympathetic toward the rising nationalism of the Indian middle class (Butler 27). This meant that from the day of her birth‚ Indira would be thrown into a world of insurgency‚ riot and political upheaval. Her father sums up her upbringing in a letter he sends
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son‚ Abhijit Mukherjee‚ is a Congress MLA from West Bengal as of July 2012 His daughter is a Kathak dancer.ukherjee has authored several books like Beyond Survival‚ Challenge before the Nation‚ etc. Mukherjee began his career as an upper-division clerk in the office of the Deputy Accountant-General (Post and Telegraph) in Calcutta. Mukherjee got involved in the politics of the Indian National Congress in 1969. Indira Gandhi made Mukherjee the Deputy Leader of the Congress in the Rajya Sabha in 1978
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Lucknow pact is considered as a significant event in the political constitutional history of India. It is regarded a high water marked of Hindu Muslim unity. It was the first and last pact signed between Congress and Muslim league. Why the Lucknow Pact of 1916 was made? When Bengal was partitioned in 1905‚ Hindus reacted against the decision and they went on violent protests and boycotts of British goods. On the other hand‚ the Muslims remained loyal to the British rule. The British could not
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Pranab Mukherjee’s election as thePresident of the Indian Republic‚ surfacing of a string of scams dealing severe blow to the credibility of the UPA dispensation at the Centre‚ intense bickering within BJP with demand to remove incumbent party chief Nitin Gadkari and demise of several veteran personalities from all fields of public interests. Demise of Shiv Sena chief Balasaheb Thackeray and former Prime Minister IK Gujral marked the end of an era in Indian politics whereas passing away of legendary film
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ROLE OF REGIONAL POLITICAL PARTIES IN INDIA PROJUECT SUBMITTED TO‚ Dr. B.K MAHAKUL (FACULTY: POLITICAL SCIENCE) ANISH GHOSE ROLL NO: 14 (SOCIOLOGY‚ MAJOR) SEMESTER III HIDAYATULLAH NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY RAIPUR‚ C.G. CONTENTS 1. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.............................................................1 2. OBJECTIVES................................................................................2 3. HYPOTHESIS.....................................................................
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Paper - I 1. Sources: Archaeological sources:Exploration‚ excavation‚ epigraphy‚ numismatics‚ monuments Literary sources: Indigenous: Primary and secondary; poetry‚ scientific literature‚ literature‚ literature in regional languages‚ religious literature. Foreign accounts: Greek‚ Chinese and Arab writers. 2. Pre-history and Proto-history: Geographical factors; hunting and gathering (paleolithic and mesolithic); Beginning of agriculture (neolithic and chalcolithic). 3. Indus Valley Civilization: Origin
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advocated the Swadeshi movement involving the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907. The last years of the nineteenth century‚ saw a radical sensibility emerge among some Indian Intellectuals. This position burst onto the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self sufficiency".[1] Lal-Bal-Pal‚ mobilized Indians across the country against the Bengal partition‚ and the demonstrations‚ strikes and
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British drama film directed by Danny Boyle‚ written by Simon Beaufoy‚ and co-directed in India by Loveleen Tandan. It is an adaptation of the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author and diplomat Vikas Swarup. Set and filmed in India‚ the film tells the story of Jamal Malik‚ a young man from the Juhu slums of Mumbai who appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?and exceeds people’s expectations‚ thereby arousing the suspicions of cheating; Jamal recounts in flashback how he knows the
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Life without electricity Imagine life without electricity‚ not just a brief power outage. We all know how inconvenient life becomes when our electricity is out for only a few hours. How hard it is to remember for that short period of time that the light switch will not produce instant light‚ the hair dryer will not immediately blow dry our hair‚ or that we can’t even run water into our homes. Our homes and lives have become so dependent on electricity it is really hard to imagine everything that
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as Gandhi had‚ has without doubt has been the most wounding trauma of the twentieth century. It has seared the psyche of more than four generations of this subcontinent. Why did the partition take place at all? Who was/is responsible – Jinnah‚ the Congress Party or the British? Jaswant Singh attempts to find an answer‚ his answer‚ for there can perhaps not be a definite answer‚ yet the author searches. Jinnah’s political journey began as ‘an ambassador of Hindu – Muslim Unity’ (Gopal Krishna Gokhle)
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