Articles from General Knowledge Today NAM Movement and Non-alignment 2.0 2012-10-09 09:10:12 GKToday "NonAlignment 2.0: A foreign and strategic policy for India in the 21st century" is a publication by Centre for Policy Research that was released in March 2012. This document identifies the basic principles and drivers that would make India a leading player on the world stage while preserving its strategic autonomy and value system. The document Nonalignment 2.0 was written over 14 months
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had made important changes to their government that he commanded‚ including recognizing Indian marriages and abolition of the poll tax for them. After travelling all over India to get to know himself with the country of which he knew nothing about‚ he dived into politics‚ and soon became the respected leader of the Indian nationalist movement. He single-handedly transformed the middle- and upper-class Indian National Congress into a national organization‚ bringing in large sections of disrespected
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for Hindus and Muslims after being convinced of the Hindus and Congress hatred‚ hostility and prejudice for the Muslims. The entire freedom movement revolved around the two nation theory which was introduced by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He considered all those lived in India as one nation and was a great advocate of HinduMuslim unity. Speaking at the meeting of Indian Association he said: “I look to both Hindus and Muslims with the same eyes and consider them as my own eyes. By the word ‘Nation’ I mean only
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Jawaharlal Nehru‚ the first Prime Minister of India‚ on the ramparts the Red Fort‚ Delhi. History In 1947‚ after the World War II‚ Britain could see that it no longer could hold its power over India. It was becoming increasingly difficult and Indian freedom fighters were in no mood to give up. With the international support also coming to an end‚ Britain decided to relive India from their power but not before June 1948. However‚ the impending independence more so enhanced the violence between
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and his trusted disciple Chandragupta Maurya who together laid the foundation of the first great historical empire of ancient India. The other duo was that of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru who were instrumental in laying the base of a modern Indian state and giving shape to ideas in the realm of education‚ culture and democracy.1 Gandhi founded the Satyagraha Ashram after returning from South Africa and successfully employed the principles of Satyagraha in uniting the peasants of Kheda and Champaran
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suggestions given by the Indian Leaders. In Indian Act 1919‚ it was said that new reforms are introduced in Indian Act 1929. So they started coming up with for 1929 Act. In 1927 British Government appointed a commission to draft coming constitution that is referred to as Simon Commission. There was no representative of Indians in this Commission that’s why all the parties decided to boycott of this commission except Shafi League. There was great bitterness among Indians as a result of they were waiting
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Dr. Rajendra Prasad 3 December 1884 – 28 February 1963 Out first President may be truly described as one of the finest representatives of modern India‚ a product of Western culture with an outlook on life essentially Indian. His life reflects a combination of cultures and varied experiences through which he passed his life. Rajandra Prasad was born in a Bihar village in Chapra on December 3‚ 1884‚ the son of a landlord. His first school was the Chapra District School‚ where the Headmaster‚ Khirode
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January 24‚ 2013 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Gandhi was an Indian civil rights leader. Throughout life he was misunderstood‚ defied in death and was taken to the point of error. Gandhi took down the British Empire‚ he improved the governments of the three nations‚ and he imbued the spirits of a global network of neo-Gandhians‚ like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. If anyone could be described as the most adequate civil rights movement leader of the 20th century‚ it would be Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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Abul Kalam Azad Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed (11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958) was an Indian Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity‚ opposing the partition of India on communal lines. Following India’s independence‚ he became the first Minister of Education in the Indian government. He is commonly remembered as Maulana Azad; he had adopted Azad (Free) as his pen name
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What is Passive Resistance? Passive Resistance is the nonviolent act of resisting to methods of the government‚ a dweller of power‚ or certain laws. Since 1897‚ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has acted on this idea‚ after questioning his people’s [Indians] status with the British Empire. There were many protest‚ five in which Gandhi was arrested. When he went to prison‚ he went on hunger strikes‚ greatly embarrassing the British Empire. Gandhi later died in 1948‚ inside of a prison‚ fighting for the
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