Diwali festival is also known as Deepawali which is celebrated throughout India with great enthusiasm. Information on diwali includes‚ Diwali festival is one of the most popular festivals throughout the world. It is celebrated on the Amavasya day‚ that is the 15th day of the Kartik month. Kartik is the month according to the Hindu calendar that falls in October/November according to the English calendar every year Diwali festival is celebrated as the festival of lights. Throughout the world‚ Diwali
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Joseph Stalin‚ has been a great leader of the Soviet Union dating back to1929. Born on December 18th‚ 1879 to the Full name Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili he later shortened it to Joseph Stalin meaning “Man of Steel‚” derived form the Russian word “stal.”(Biography‚ 2011) Although Stalin did not begin ruling Russia at an early age his years of dictatorship did‚ starting back in 1912. From then on his leadership began to climb towards the high dominion he’s so well known for today! Stalin came
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building and providing irrigational facilities‚ sanitation‚ and famine relief for its people. According to tradition‚ after ruling for about 25 years‚ Chandragupta turned over power to his son‚ Bindusara and converted to the Jainism religion. It is believed that he died by fasting to death in a Jain rite of penance. Bindusara inherited a vast empire that spanned parts of modern-day Afghanistan in the northwest‚ to parts of Bengal in the east. It also spread through large parts of central India
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S L A I C O S HISTRY PART-1 PRESENTATION E C N CIE 1. How ‚ When and Where 1: How important are dates? : There was a time when historians heated debates about the dates on which rulers were crowned or battles were fought. : In the common-sense history synonymous with dates. : History is certainly about finding out how things were in the past and how they changed : Time does not have to be always precisely dated in terms of a particular year or a month. : Sometimes it is hard to fix precise
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in cotton‚ silk‚ tea and opium. They won over Bengal after gaining victory in the Battle of Plassey in 1757‚ under Robert Clive. The East India Company functioned as the military authority in growing sections of India‚ as well. By 1770‚ heavy taxation and other policies had left millions of Bengalis deprived. While British soldiers and traders made their fortunes‚ the Indians starved. Between 1770 and 1773‚ about 1/3 of the population died from famine. At this time‚ Indians also were barred from high
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Prime Minister Mahoman Singh has called them "the single biggest security challenge ever faced by our country". Fourteen Indian states are struggling to battle the insurgency waged by their 20‚000 fighters. Over the last three years some 2‚600 people have died by their hands. These are the Naxalites‚ the source of India’s scariest security challenge. Naxalism. It is a topic few in the West are aware of. The international media lends little attention to India’s Maoist insurgents‚ choosing
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British colonial rule and Indian Subcontinent 1/19/2013 Prepared by – (Group 10 The rising stars) Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947 Group members – The British Raj (rāj‚ lit. "reign" in Hindi)[1] was British rule in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947.[2] The term can also refer to the period of dominion.[2][3] The region under British control‚ commonly calledIndia in contemporary usage‚ included areas directly administered by the
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formed by Raps Bihar Bose under the command of Mohan Singh. However‚ the high-handedness of Mohan Singh made him a prisoner at the hands of Raps Bihar Bose. With his arrival‚ he was given the charge of the organisation of the I.N.A. From Tokyo in 1943 Subhas Chandra delivered his first speech for Indians who were fighting against the British. He was also welcomed by the members of the Indian Independence League; Now Raps Bihar offered the leadership of the Indian Independence League in East Asia
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Life of Subhash Chandra Bose Subhash Chandra Bose was born into an affluent Bengali family on January 23‚ 1897 in Cuttack ‚ Orissa. Subhash’s public prosecutor father ensured that his son availed the best of education in eminent institutions such as Scottish Church College ‚ Calcutta and Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge University . In 1920‚ at the insistence of his parents‚ Bose appeared in the prestigious Indian Civil Service and secured the fourth place. During this period the civil disobedience
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ROLE OF ULEMA AND MASHAIKH IN FREEDOM MOVEMENT The Ulema and Mashaikh of the Indo-Pak subcontinent played an active role in promoting the Pakistan Movement. The Ulema’s tradition of the participation in the politics is very old. The Ulema belong to Chishtia‚ Qadria‚ Naqshbandia and Soharwardia and their followers actively supported the two-nation theory which led to Pakistan Resolution. The prominent names amongst them are Allama Shabbir Ahmed Usmani‚ Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi‚ Maulana Abdul
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