the publication of her standard book A Study of ’Savitri’ (1962)‚ she was Senior UGC Research Fellow (1967-70) when she completed her comparative study of Dante and Sri Aurobindo. More than 30 publications to her credit‚ she has also published a brief Biographies of Sri Aurobindo (1972)‚ and her study of the ’Mother’ of Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Dr. Nandakumar’s reviews‚ essays and short stories have over a period of 30 years appeared in various Indian and foreign journals
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THE STRENGHT OF A WOMAN India has been a country where males have dominated society and oppressed the fairer sex. Only recently have things changed and currently India has its first woman president. This domination has caused women to actually believe that they are indeed inferior to men. It is therefore not surprising to find women content with the subservient life they were forced to lead‚ like in Mulk Raj Anand’s ‘The Coolie’ where in Munoo’s village‚ his aunt “…had done the housework herself
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HAUS KHAS INTRODUCTION In 1303 A.D.‚ Alauddin Khilji laid the foundation of his capital city Siri. He decided to build a reservoir to serve the basic needs of growing population. The tank called Hauz e- Alai (tank of Alauddin) was spread over huge area of 6 hectares and it remained filled with monsoon water naturally. After the death of Alauddin‚ focus shifted away from Siri to Jahanpanah as new capital. The water channels got silted up and dry bed began to cultivate. In the middle of 14th
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of mind of the defendant‚ the jury have to determine the state of mind of the defendant at the time of the appropriation whether he was dishonest or not. The court of appeal laid down a test for dishonesty in R v Ghosh 1982 which is upon the jury to apply. The test is known as the Ghosh test and involves two stages‚ both subjective and objective. The first stage is where the courts ask the question of whether the defendant had been dishonest by the ordinary standards of reasonable and honest people
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Bibliography: Primary Sources Equiano‚ Olaudah‚ The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or‚ Gustavus Vassa‚ the African (New York: Modern Library Classics‚ 2004) Ghosh‚ Amitav‚ The Hungry Tide (London: HarperCollins Publishers‚ 2005) Secondary Sources Caretta‚ Vincent‚ The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (London: Penguin Classics‚ 2003) Curtis‚ K‚ 2010 Haynes‚ Carolyn A.‚ Divine Destiny: Gender and Race
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During the 1916 Congress session at Lucknow two major events occurred. The divided Congress became united. An understanding for joint action against the British was reached between the Congress and the Muslim League and it was called the Lucknow Pact. The signing of the Lucknow Pact by the Congress and the Muslim League in 1916 marked an important step in the Hindu-Muslim unity. The Home Rule Movement (1916) Two Home Rule Leagues were established‚ one by B.G. Tilak at Poona in April 1916 and
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products and production processes. The Swadeshi Movement started with the partition of Bengal by the Viceroy of India‚ Lord Curzon‚ 1905 and continued up to 1908. It was the most successful of the pre-Gandhian movements. Its chief architects were Aurobindo Ghosh‚ Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak‚ Bipin Chandra Pal and Lala Lajpat Rai. Swadeshi‚ as a strategy‚ was a key focus of Mahatma Gandhi‚ who described it as the soul of Swaraj (self rule). Gandhi‚ at the time of the actual movement‚ remained loyal to
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History and development of Bengali journalism Bengal‚ especially Calcutta (presently Kolkata) was the cradle of journalism in India. The first newspaper of India Hickey’s Bengal Gazette was published in Kolkata in 1780. So were the first four non-English newspapers- in Bengali‚ Urdu‚ Hindi and Persian. Several language newspapers owe their birth to Kolkata in some form or the other; for example the Oriya types were manufactured in Serampore‚ a suburb of Kolkata. The year 1818 marks the
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AGE OF MODERATES (1885-1905) Congress since its inception was dominated by educated middle class‚ the landed aristocracy and the capitalist classes called the moderates. The moderate ideology was The British colonialism and Indian Nationalism were not contradictory‚ rather complimentary. For the moderates‚ development of England was the development of India. The British were invincible. As such‚ by a policy of co-operation India could better secure her interests. England‚ mother of parliamentary
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Indian Civil Service examinations‚ as well as more rights‚ economic in nature‚ for the people of the soil. The early part of the 20th century saw a more radical approach towards political independence proposed by leaders such as the Lal‚ Bal‚ Pal‚ Aurobindo Ghosh and V. O. Chidambaram Pillai. The last stages of the freedom struggle from the 1920s onwards saw Congress adopt
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