her studies and concentrated upon studying various subjects. In 1895‚ she travelled to England to study first at King’s College London and later at Girton College‚ Cambridge. Sarojini Naidu joined the Indian national movement in the wake of partition of Bengal in 1905. She came into contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale‚Rabindranath Tagore‚ Muhammad Ali Jinnah‚ Annie Besant‚ C. P. Ramaswami Iyer‚ Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.[4] In 1925‚ Naidu presided over the annual session of Indian National
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Morley-Minto Reform was introduced because Indians started pressuring the government; the congress started to demand for Home Rule in 1906 and there was boycotts of British goods and violent outbreaks started in Bengal. The riot in Bengal began from Lord Curzon‚ who was the Viceroy at the time. Bengal was too large to administer and therefore‚
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british.” According of Quaid-e-Azam : “The sole aim and object of the congress is to annihilate every other organization in the country.” PARTITION PROPOSALS By 1937‚the political conditions of Sub Continent compelled the Muslim political leaders to seriously consider the partition of India.The idea of Indian partition was not a new one‚a number of partition proposals had been forwarded previously by many Muslim leaders like Syed Ahmed Shaheed‚Mohammad Abdul Qadir‚Allama Iqbal‚Syed Jamal Uddin Afghani
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Kashmir problem - Islamic Republic of Pakistan v/s Secular Republic of India Kashmir problem is with the world since 1947‚ the year of the partition of India. Indian part of the Kashmir is about 45 percent of the original Kingdom of the Jammu and Kashmir‚ about 35 percent is now in Pakistan‚ and China has occupied the other 20 percent in 1962. The UN and the U.S want both sides to keep on the discussions‚ but the important question is on what basis the discussion can take place. The unresolved
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Communalism is a belief that all those who have a common religion also have‚ as a result‚ common social‚ political‚ cultural and economic interests and identities. It is a notion that religion forms the base of the society and a basic unit of division and that it is religion which determines all other interests of its adherents. Hence communalism is a phenomenon of superimposition of religious beliefs on all other aspects of a man’s life. Because in pre-independence India‚ communalism mainly manifested
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Jute – Historical Background of one of the oldest Industries For centuries‚ jute has been an integral part of Bengali‚ which is shared by both Bangladesh and West Bengal of India. In the 19th and early 20th centuries‚ much of raw jute fibre of Bengal were exported to the United Kingdom‚ where it was then processed in mills concentrated in Dundee (“jute weaver” was a recognized trade occupation in the 1901 UK census)‚ but this trade had largely ceased about by about 1970 due to the entrance of
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relations in the study of popular memory— the often vexed but close linkages between public constructions and private reminiscences. The project began with what seemed to be a simple question: what might we learn about the final decades of colonial rule in Bengal‚ and especially about Acknowledgements: My biggest debt in writing this paper is‚ of course‚ to the women I interviewed for generously sharing their experiences with me. Professor Hossenur Rahman and the late Mrs. Gaur Ayub helped me with my first
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establishment of a separate Muslim-majority nation-state‚ Pakistan‚ successfully led to the partition of India in 1947 by the British Empire. Early genesis of the party are founded as an aftermath of literary movement led by Syed Ahmad Khan‚ who also helped in founding the party. In 1906‚ the party was officially found at the educational conference held in Dhaka to protest against the integration of Bengal in 1905.Its original political goal was to define and advance the Indian Muslim’s civil rights
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak was one of the first and strongest advocates of Swaraj (self-rule) and a strong radical in Indian consciousness. His famous quote‚ “Swaraj is my birt right‚ and I shall have it!” is well remembered in India even today. Coming from a father who was a schoolteacher and a Sanskrit scholar‚ young Tilak was a brilliant student who graduated from Deccan College in Pune in 1877. Tilak was among one of the first generation of Indians to receive a college education. He took
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INDEPENDENCE DAY "At the stroke of the midnight hour‚ when the world sleeps‚ India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes‚ which comes but rarely in history‚ when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru (on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947) “Every year‚ we celebrate our Independence Day with great fervour as well as joy and justifiably so‚ as it commemorates that day‚ when after many years of subjugation‚ our country gained its freedom.
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