National Congress was made mostly of Hindus. In 1940‚ Jinnah (a leader equal to Ghandi‚ except that he represented Muslims‚ and Ghandi represented Hindus) stated at the Lahore Conference that promoted a Muslim nation separate from the rest of India. In 1943‚ the AIML called for Britain to Divide and Quit. Hindus also acknowledged the difference in beliefs that separated them from Muslims. Between 1940 and 1942‚ Congress began plans to remove the British (the National Congress was calling for Britain to
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prevented from killing people with abandon”. --- Amartya Sen Background Amartya Kumar Sen (AKS) born 3rd November‚ 1933 is a Bengali economist. Sen is known as ‘the Conscience and the Mother Teresa of Economics’ for his work on famine‚ human development theory‚ welfare economics and the underlying mechanisms of poverty‚ gender inequality and political liberalism. In 1998‚ Sen won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to work on welfare economics. A. K. Sen
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CHAPTER-1 INTRODUCTION TO DISASTER 1.1 THE HISTORY OF DISASTERS IN INDIA Year 2005‚ say India should hang her head in shame. With the Bengal famine‚ Orissa Super Cyclone‚ Latur earthquake‚ Bhopal chemical disaster‚ Andhra cyclone‚ Gujarat earthquake‚ recurring floods‚ Mumbai 2008 bomb blasts and many other disasters there is no foyer in the world with space large enough to exhibit the collective pain on the face of India. India has ranked at the top or near top in almost all type of disasters
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land revenue systems are 1. Zamindari system‚ 2. Rywotari System and 3. Mahalwari System. Zamindari system: The Zamindari system was introduced in early British period. The Permanent settlement Act was passed in 1793 and initially introduced in Bengal. The
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of non-profit economic enterprises for the benefit of those using their services. Begun in England in the nineteenth century‚ the co-operative movement stimulated Bengal in the last decade of the century. At first‚ some British civilians started it in their districts with considerable success. On the initiative of the government of Bengal‚ it was launched with the enactment of the Co-operative Credit Societies Act 1904. The theoretical origin of the co-operative movement is to be traced from the writings
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Was The British Empire A Good Thing Or Not Introduction: The British Empire was the largest colonial empire in history. Twenty five percent of the world’s people were part of the British Empire. “The sun never set on the British Empire” was a saying that showed how vast the British Empire was. This refers to the fact that the British Empire stretched right across the globe‚ so that when the sun was setting in Britain‚ it was rising in places such as Australia. The Empire started in 1603 and ended
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INTRODUCTION The term “Food Security” originated in 1960’s and 1970’s. Public interest in global and domestic food security grew between the years 1972-74. Food Security means that all the people at all times have physical‚ economic and adequate amount of nutrition required to them.Food Security is one of the major problems related to nutritional status. It also means that people who produce food are also able to earn a decent living‚ have good surroundings‚ well and a proper diet. A person is
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for Bose was not limited to the radical elements of the Indian National Congress‚ who were clamoring for inÂ�deÂ�penÂ�dence from British rule. Mahatma Gandhi best captured the sigÂ�nifiÂ�cance of the armed struggle for freedom that unfolded from 1943 to 1945. The court-martial of some leading ofÂ�fiÂ�cers at Delhi’s Red Fort had just transmitted the story of the Indian National Army and its Netaji (“revered leader‚” as Bose had come to be called) to evÂ�ery Indian home. “The whole country has
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Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma (Myanmar) to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south. Together with the Indian state of West Bengal‚ it makes up the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. The name Bangladesh means "Country of Bengal" in the official Bengali language. Bangladesh is the eighth most populous country and is among the most densely populated countries in the world. Bangladesh has a high poverty
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all parts of Russia. The vast demand for factory production of war supplies and workers caused many more labor riots and strikes. Conscription stripped skilled workers from the cities‚ who had to be replaced with unskilled peasants‚ and then‚ when famine began to hit due to the poor railway system‚ workers abandoned the cities in droves to look for food. Finally‚ the soldiers themselves‚ who suffered from a lack of equipment and protection from the elements‚ began to turn against the Czar.314 This
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