would give it to the Indian farmers. Many state governments introduced their respective state laws which abolished the Zamindari system and introduced new set of land laws17. These newly made laws quashed all the claims of the Zamindars‚ and hence the community of the Zamindars reached the newly established Supreme Court‚ which justified the eminent domain practice carried by the government and hence abolishing the Zamindari
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Social Structure a term loosely applied to any recurring pattern of social behaviour‚ or‚ more specifically‚ to ordered interrelationships between different elements of a society. Social structure comprises different kinship‚ religious‚ economic‚ political and other institutions as well as of norms‚ values and social roles of the members of a society. The development of the social structure in any society is historically conditioned. The social structure of Bangladesh‚ therefore‚ needs to be analysed
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Ram Mohan Roy‚ Indian Social Reformer Ram Mohan Roy was born in an rich family in the 1774. He is also known as ’The Father of the Bengal Renaissance’. As a student he studied Persian‚ Arabic and Sanskrit languages. In his youth he had differences with his father about his religious views. He eventually came to Varanashi and expectedly studied the English language. His father died in 1803 and the same year he published his first book `Tohfat-ul-Mohiddin` in which he criticized idol worship and declared
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The Economic and Social Impact of Colonial Rule in India Chapter 3 of Class Structure and Economic Growth: India & Pakistan since the Moghuls Maddison (1971) British imperialism was more pragmatic than that of other colonial powers. Its motivation was economic‚ not evangelical. There was none of the dedicated Christian fanaticism which the Portuguese and Spanish demonstrated in Latin America and less enthusiasm for cultural diffusion than the French (or the Americans) showed in their colonies. For
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Governor-General Canning decided that Bahadur Shah Zafar would be the last Mughal king and after his death none of his descendants would be recognized as kings – they would just be called princes. The Peasants and the Sepoys In the countryside peasants and zamindars resented the high taxes and the rigid methods of revenue collection. Many failed to pay back their loans to the moneylenders and gradually lost the lands they had tilled for generations. The Indian sepoys in the
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Indore‚ the most prominent city of Malwa region of western Madhya Pradesh state‚ central India with Large‚ Medium and Small scale industries. It is the chief collecting and distributing centre for western Madhya Pradesh as well as a commercial and industrial centre. City is well connected by expressway‚ several national and state highways‚ whereas rail network bifurcates the city exactly from the centre. Indore has the highest development rate in compare to the other cities with respect to infrastructures
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Land tenure system: Land is a gift of nature. We produce several things from the land. In India‚ in ancient times‚ the land belonged to the almighty or the society. Although the land is tilled by the individual farmer‚ the ultimate ownership of it rests in the government‚ who charge revenue from the individual farmer. In India there came a time when a middle man appeared on the scene. He realized revenue from the individual farmer and paid something to the government. This was not
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UNIT UNIT I I I DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND EXPERIENCE (1947-90) The two chapters in this unit give us an overview of the state of the Indian economy as it was at the eve of independence till after four decades of planned development‚ which was a path that India chose. This meant that the Government of India had to take a series of steps such as the establishment of the Planning Commission and announcement of five year plans. An overview of the goals of five year plans and a critical appraisal
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INTRODUCTION AND RATIONALE OF QUASI CONTRACTS:- Under the general heading of the Quasi contract there has been grouped a number of cases which have little or no affinity with contract. A simple illustration is afforded by the action to recover money paid by mistake. If the plaintiff on an erroneous interpretation of the facts‚ pays to the defendant a sum of money which he does not really owe‚ law‚ no less than justice‚ will require he defendant to restore it. But his obligation is manifestly not
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Rabindranath Thakur Rabindranath Thakur‚ anglicized to Tagore pronunciation (help info) (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর) (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941)‚γ[›] sobriquet Gurudev‚δ[›] was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region’s literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive‚ fresh and beautiful verse"‚[2] he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.[3] In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however‚ his "elegant prose
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