The youngest of thirteen surviving children‚ Tagore was born in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta (now Kolkata) of parents Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875).ε[›][11] Tagore family patriarchs were the Brahmo founding fathers of the Adi Dharm faith. He was mostly raised by servants‚ as his mother had died in his early childhood; his father travelled extensively.[12] Tagore largely declined classroom schooling‚ preferring to roam the mansion or nearby idylls: Bolpur‚ Panihati
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UNIT 14 THE BRITISH COLONIAL STATE Structu’re 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 Introduction Nature of the Colonial State The Political Economy of the Colonial State . Instmments of Control 14.4.1 14.4.2 14.4.3 14.4.4 The Colonial Military Apparatus The Police Organisation The Judiciary and Law The Bureaucracy - The Steel Frame of the Raj 14.5 14.6 14.7 14.8 Sources of Legitimation Summary Glossary Exercises 14.1 INTRODUCTION The political structure ~ h i c h evolved in India under the British
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What is social movement and its different faces Different type s of social movements are peasant movement‚ tribal movement‚ dalit movement‚ women’s movement. Tribal movements were basically directed to preserve the tribal identity. Tribal people over the years where in danger due to intrusion of external people affecting the social‚ political and geo-economical position of the tribes. There were about seventy tribal movements from 1778 to 1947. Some of the major tribal movements were Jharkhand
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waters retire again to their usual channel‚ they have left a rich deposit of fertile mud‚ which gives the Egyptian Fellaheen‚ or farmers‚ abundant crops. The annual rise of the Nile is to the Egyptian cultivators what the monsoon is to the Indian Zamindars; and the failure of the Nile to rise high enough is attended with the same disaster as the failure of the monsoon in India‚ namely famine. Or rather‚ it used to be; for the British engineers‚ by their wonderful dams‚ preserve the Nile water for
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It enhanced their wealth and might. Zamindars were tribute collectors in _______. Mughal India During the sixteenth century‚ increased global and local commerce allowed Mughal rulers to: reform their administration and increase the flow of revenue. Which empire had the largest population
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With the death of Aurangzeb in 1707‚ the Mughal period started to become more unpopular. By the mid of the next century‚ the British had totally overpowered the Mughal ‘Shah-en-Shahs’. This period of transition can be further broken into two periods of transitions‚ the first one from the Mughal Empire to the regional states and the second from the regional states to the British colonies which are both described separately later in the essay. A society always maintains the notion
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The farmers in India had to undergo great struggle in all the states to stop exploitation by the Jagirdars and Zamindars. Some of the movements were successful‚ but others failed. The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati who had formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in order to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights. Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest
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QUASI-CONTRACTS UNDER INDIAN CONTRACT LAW TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Introduction 2. Kinds of Quasi-Contracts 3. Basis of Quasi-Contacts 4. Conclusion 5. Bibliography INTRODUCTION: Sections 68 to 72 deals with "certain relations resembling those created by contract" under Indian contract act‚ 1872. It incorporated those obligations which are known as "quasi contracts" under English
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The mansabdari system introduced by Akbar was a unique feature of the administrative system of the Mughal Empire. The term mansab (i.e. office‚ position or rank) in the Mughal administration indicated the rank of its holder (mansabdar) in the official hierarchy. The mansabdari system was of Central Asian origin. According to one view Babur brought it to North India. But the credit of giving it an institutional framework goes to Akbar who made it the basis of Mughal military organization and civil
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did the people do to make s & b success a. All class of people joined b. British goods were burnt c. Students refused to use paper d. Women participeted in picketing shops(stop selling of british goods) e. Dawn society set up f. Zamindars stoped marvadies from
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