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    Morley-Minto Reform was introduced because Indians started pressuring the government; the congress started to demand for Home Rule in 1906 and there was boycotts of British goods and violent outbreaks started in Bengal. The riot in Bengal began from Lord Curzon‚ who was the Viceroy at the time. Bengal was too large to administer and therefore‚

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    Heritage Site covering parts of India and Bangladesh. The Sundarbans National Park is a National Park‚ Tiger Reserve‚ and a Biosphere Reserve located in the Sundarbans delta in the Indian state of West Bengal. This region is densely covered by mangrove forests‚ and is one of the largest reserves for the Bengal tiger. ------------------------------------------------- Etymology The name Sundarban can be literally translated as "beautiful forest" in the Bengali language (Shundor‚ "beautiful" and bon‚ "forest")

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    BAEL 10. COCONUT 11. GULER 12. PHANAS 13. CASHEW 14. ARJUN 15. MANGO 16. TEAK 17. SITAPHAL 18. BADAM 19. PALASH 20. CHIKU 1. THE BANYAN TREE Ficns bengalensis Linn. (Order: Urticaeeae). Ficus is the Latin for fig. Bengalensis‚ pertaining to Bengal. Description: : A very large‚ spreading‚ deciduous tree‚ often reaching 100 ft. or more sending down numerous aerials from its branches to the ground which in time support the branches. Leaves egg-shaped‚rounded or elliptical‚ tip blunt‚ base

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    political history of West Bengal to understand the “success” of the unwilling farmers in Singur who were protesting against the Tata Nano project. It is necessary to do the same for Gujarat in order to understand why there has been no similar resistance in Sanand. Accordingly‚ this paper has three main objectives. The first objective is to present a nuanced comparative analysis of two subnational political regimes and associated civil societies: that of Gujarat and of West Bengal. The argument is that

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    called charya-giti (religious observance songs) and the thirteenth-century Gitagovinda (Songs of the Cowherder)‚ a cycle of songs by the poet Jayadeva‚ bear the names of the specific melodic modes assigned to each song. Hindu and Buddhist kings in Bengal commissioned poets to compose raso‚ epic poems‚ in their honor‚ which were chanted by the poet-composers themselves. These royal patrons also commissioned poets to render into Bengali verse the great Sanskrit epics from Indo-Aryan literature‚ such

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    REPORT On Environment Degradation & Climate Change Date of Submission: 21/11/2011 Definition: Environmental degradation is a result of the dynamic interplay of socio-economic‚ institutional and technological activities. Environmental changes may be driven by many factors including economic growth

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    Removal of Arsenic from Village Drinking Water Supplies in West Bengal By Dr. Arun Deb Vice President (Retired)‚ Weston Solutions‚ Inc. West Chester‚ Pennsylvania Introduction and Background West Bengal‚ a state in Eastern India is very rich in groundwater and more than 80 percent of its populations tap this source as drinking water. In West Bengal‚ and in the neighboring nation of Bangladesh‚ a health crisis of devastating proportions has been quietly unfolding over many

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    278-310. Banthia‚ Jayant Kumar(2004): First Report on Religion Data‚ Census of India 2001‚ Registrar General and Census Commissioner‚ India. District Statistical Handbook‚ Murshidabad‚ 2008‚ Bureau of Applied Economics and Statistics Government of West Bengal. Guilmoto‚ C.Z and S. Irudaya Rajan(2001): Spatial Pattern of Fertility in Indian Districts‚ Population and Development Review‚ Vol-27‚ No-4. Pp-713-38. District Level Estimates of Fertility from India’s 2001 Census‚ Economics and Political Weekly

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    possible increase in cyclone frequency in the Bay of Bengal‚ lying south of Bangladesh‚ due to climate change is looked at by analyzing the cyclone data for 119 yr. Both qualitative and quantitative discussions are made on cyclone intensity increase for a sea surface temperature rise of 2 and 4°C. Different scenarios of storm surges under different climate change conditions are developed by using a numerical model of storm surges for the Bay of Bengal. Possible loss of land through beach erosion due

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    The Great Famine of 1315 may have been thought to be caused solely by crop failure‚ but to an extent it was caused largely by a cooler climate change. The Little Ice Age that began in the fourteenth century and lasted until the nineteenth had seen cold‚ stormy winters and a slightly cooler climate even during the summer months. Before the temperature drop was a Climate Optimum‚ known as the Medieval Warm Period‚ which caused massive growth in population and agriculture. These improvements were highly

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