Minister of the Republic of India. He is the first Indian Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. He is the first Sikh to hold the post. Singh is also the 12th Prime Minister under an Indian National Congress Party Government. Singh is widely credited for carrying out economic reforms in India during his tenure as the Finance Minister from 1991 to 1996. These reforms resulted in the end of the infamous Licence Raj system and opened the Indian economy
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The delegates at the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) were motivated to a surprisingly large degree by the desire to benefit Europe as a whole‚ and this is reflected in their purpose in calling the Congress together and the settlement they reached. National interest was modified for the sake of the general interest of Europe. The Congress of Vienna was held in order to draw up a plan to alter Europe politically and territorially so as to prevent the extensive expansion of any one great power
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statesman who was the first (and to date the longest-serving) prime minister of India‚ from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement‚ Nehru was elected by the Congress Party to assume office as independent India’s first Prime Minister‚ and re-elected when the Congress Party won India’s first general election in 1952. As one of the founders of the Non-aligned Movement‚ he was also an important figure in the international politics of the post-war era. He is frequently
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Globalization and democratic governance | India and democracy : promotion and electoral participation of the low castes and of the Untouchables. | | | | Semester one – 2012 | | Table of contents Introduction: India and the system of castes. 2 I) The promotion of the low castes and the untouchables within the Indian political system: a "Silent revolution". 4 1) The processes of positive discrimination towards the untouchables: a political and social promotion at first
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started to adopt the influential principle of nationalism‚ leading to the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 under Allan Octavian Hume for the purpose of cooperation with the British Government. The British officials ruling India saw their relationship as one of lords over peasants‚ which made them sympathetic‚ but not Indian and not free of race prejudice. The Indian National Congress did not have much influence at the start‚ but it grew with anti-British sentiment. The outrageous
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Finance Member of a Province. He has a particular taste for education having been Vice-Chancellor of the Patna University for eight years. Over and above all this‚ Dr. Sinha is the oldest Congressman among us. Up till 1920 he was a member of the Congress‚ being at one time its Secretary. After the year 1920 when we started on a new way to gain freedom he parted company with us. He‚ however‚ never wholly left us. He has always been helping us. He never joined any other organization and his sympathies
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27 May 1964) who was the first and longest-serving Prime Minister of India‚ from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement‚ Nehru was elected by the Indian National Congress to assume office as independent India’s first Prime Minister‚ and re-elected when the Congress Party won India’s first general election in 1952. As one of the founders of the Non-Aligned Movement‚ he was also one of the principal leaders of India’s independence movement in the 1930s and ’40s
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Indian Independence Movement Study Guide Early Control 1600-1857 - In 1600’s British East India Company set up trading posts in Bombay‚ Madras‚ Calcutta - After 1707 East Indian company takes more control as Mughal empire weakens o Muslims from Central Asia who set up strong empire in India from 16th-18th century East India Company Dominates - East India Company led by Sir Robert Clive defeats Indians at Battle of Plassey ( gains control over French and Indian forces in 1757
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TWO NATION THEORY Nation The word “NATION” is derived from Latin route “NATUS” of “NATIO” which means “Birth” of “Born”. Therefore‚ Nation implies homogeneous population of the people who are organized and blood-related. Today the word NATION is used in a wider sense. A Nation is a body of people who see part at least of their identity in terms of a single communal identity with some considerable historical continuity of union‚ with major elements of common culture‚ and with a sense of
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