working in the freedom movement. Few took on Sardar Patel as she did and survived in the political arena. She even challenged Gandhi whom she revered. Kamaladevi took Gandhiji’s teaching of pursuit of Truth to heart even if it meant challenging him. Gandhi‚ Nehru‚ Sardar Patel accepted her independence and respected her for it while some other people did not. Indira Gandhi was jealous of her father’s friendship with Kamaladevi and her antipathy towards Kamaladevi for writing to Nehru to ask his daughter
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1966‚ by Indira Gandhi‚ who went on to lead the Congress to election victories in 1967 and 1971. Following public discontent with the state of emergency she declared in 1975‚ the Congress was voted out of power in 1977; the then-new Janata Party‚ which had opposed the emergency‚ was voted in. Its government lasted just over three years. Voted back into power in 1980‚ the Congress saw a change in leadership in 1984‚ when Indira Gandhi was assassinated; she was succeeded by her son Rajiv Gandhi‚ who won
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judge in Supreme Court -- Mrs. Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi ...4) The first woman Ambassador -- Miss C.B. Muthamma 5) The first woman Governor of a State in free India -- Mrs. Sarojini Naidu (1925) 6) The first woman Prime Minister -- Mrs. Indira Gandhi 7) The first woman to climb Mount Everest -- Bachhendri Pal The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice -- Santosh Yadav 9) The first woman President of the Indian National Congress -- Mrs. Annie Besant 10) The first woman chief justice
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THE THIRD SPACE Four months to the elections and the idea of a third front has been floated into the political picture of India. “We are aligning non-Congress‚ non-BJP parties in both houses‚" JD-U chief Sharad Yadav said at a joint press conference of the ‘third front’. Indian politics stands at an emergent juncture. The dominant (in terms of seats) and ruling party Indian National Congress (INC) is drastically losing popularity after a plague of scams. Critically‚ mass media touts Bharitya Janta
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planning in India and Demographics of India India suffers from the problem of overpopulation. The population of India is very high at an estimated 1.27 billion.[1][2][3] Though India ranks second in population‚ it ranks 33 in population density. Indira Gandhi‚ Prime Minister of India‚ had implemented a forced sterilization programme in the early 1970s but the programme failed. Officially‚ men with two children or more were required to be sterilised‚ but many unmarried young men‚ political opponents
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Jawaharlal Nehru born on 14th November 1889 in Allahabad‚ was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics for much of the 20th century. He emerged as the paramount leader of the Indian Independence Movement under Mahatma Gandhi and ruled India from its establishment as an independent nation in 1947 until his death in office in 1964. Nehru is considered to be the architect of the modern Indian nation-state; a sovereign‚ socialist‚ secular‚ and democratic republic. A committed
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Code: BSHF-101 Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY MAIDAN GARHI‚ NEW DELHI – 110 068 BSHF-101 BACHELOR’S DEGREE PROGRAMME (BDP) ASSIGNMENTS For July 2012 and January 2013 Sessions Course Code: BSHF-101 Foundation Course in Humanities and Social Sciences SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY MAIDAN GARHI‚ NEW DELHI – 110 068 BSHF-101 Programme Code: BDP Course
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In the first year of the marriage‚ Kamala gave birth to their only child‚ Indira Priyadarshini .Jawahar Lal Nehru joined Home Rule League in 1917.Two years later‚ Nehru joined the Indian National Congress‚ where he soon became a leader—during this time he began to help India gain its independence from England. His real initiation intopolitics came when he came in contact with Mahatma Gandhi in 1919. At that time MahatmaGandhi had launched a campaignagainst Rowlatt
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The Implications of Political Corruption for India’s Economic Development Varun Gajendran EDGE Research Paper Professor Lusignan TA: Sahil Khanna Fundamental Problems With the Indian “Democracy” Although India is the largest democracy in the world‚ it continues to struggle on a daily basis to fight corruption in politics at both the national and local levels. In a nation with such a rich diversity of languages‚ cultures‚ and traditions‚ nothing is more important to reconciling all the
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Okhla Industrial Development Authority‚ is an area under the management of the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (also called NOIDA). Noida came into administrative existence on 17 April 1976 and celebrates 17 April as "Noida Day". Sanjay Gandhi set it up as part of an urbanization thrust during the controversialEmergency period (1975-1977). The city was created under the UP Industrial Area Development Act. It has first-class amenities and is considered to be one of the more modern cities
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