largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas. The Hindus of West Bengal who dominated Bengal’s business and rural life complained that the division would make them a minority in a province that would incorporate the province of Bihar and Orissa. Indians were outraged at what they recognized as a "divide and rule" policy‚ where the colonizers turned the native population against itself in order to rule‚ even though Lord Curzon‚ the viceroy of India‚ stressed it would produce administrative
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Regional Income Disparities in India INTRODUCTION Regional disparities in the level of economic growth experienced in India is a major challenge for policy makers and planners‚ as it produces serious threat to the socio-political harmony of the country. States have experienced different pace of economic growth‚ with some states showing fast progress and others languishing behind‚ although the national growth has been remarkable for the past two decades. Like the national planning the regional
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temple. This temple is now under the supervision of Archaeological Survey of India. Other Sun Temples in India are as follows : Konark in Orissa Martand in Jammu and Kashmir near Almora in Uttarakhand Dakshinaarka temple in Gaya‚ Bihar Punark and Deo Barunark in Bihar Bhramanya Dev Temple at Unao‚ Balaji in Madhya Pradesh Sun Temple at Sri Surya Pahar in Assam Suryanaar Temple at Kumbakonam in Tamil Nadu Surya Narayana Swamy temple at Arasavalli in Andhra Pradesh Further‚ the Sun Temple of
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The Legacy of Malthus This movie looks into the issue of poverty prevalent in rural India. Deepa Dhanraj takes us from one corner of rural India where poverty persists to the Scottish highs which witnessed highland clearances in the 19th century. Scottish high landlords had legal claim over the common land on which shared croppers survived. Landlords rented the land to tenants who further let it to sub tenants. At the end of 18th century‚ volume sheep farming for wool and meat became immensely
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When my parents mentioned marriage I had no idea what marriage even meant‚” says Kamla‚ a young woman in Hazaribag‚ in the Indian state of Jharkhand. They married her off‚ she says‚ when she was 12 or 13. More than half the girls in Jharkhand are married before they turn 18‚ making it the state with the third-highest rate of early marriage in India‚ which -- though the practice has been illegal there for a century -- is home to the largest number of early marriages in the world. “Gaon mein aisa
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Corruption in India Andrew Sanchez T he momentum of last year’s hunger strike by the anti-corruption campaigner Kisan ‘Anna’ Hazare currently sees India’s parliament wrestling with the formation of a national corruption ombudsman. Hazare’s campaign rests upon the proposition that the democratic ideals with which the Indian state was formed in 1947 are all too often subverted by the self-interest of public servants. Hazare’s supporters argue that this process has two primary effects. First‚ corruption
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Census of India 2011 RURAL URBAN DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION (Provisional Population Totals) Our Census‚ Our Future DR C. CHANDRAMOULI REGISTRAR GENERAL & CENSUS COMMISSIONER‚ INDIA MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS NEW DELHI : 15th July 2011. Census of India 2011 • Census 2011 is the 15th Census of India since 1872 • Census 2011 was held in two phases: • Houselisting & Housing Census (April to September 2010) • Population Enumeration (9th to 28th February 2011) • Reference Date: 0:00
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million more affected in the impoverished state of Bihar‚ where the Koshi River has burst its banks‚ breached safety embankments and submerged all roads leading to the region. Indian villagers wade through flood water in Sitpur in the Supaul district of India’s northern state of Bihar on August 28‚ 2008. More than a million people remain trapped after a monsoon-swollen river changed course‚ flooding huge swathes of the country’s impoverished Bihar state. Flood victims receive medical treatment at
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------------------------------------------------- ndia women’s national football team From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia India | | Association | All India Football Federation | Confederation | Asian Football Confederation (Asia) | Head coach | Mohammad Shahid Jabbar | Asst coach | Surmala Chanu | Captain | Oinam Bembem Devi | Top scorer | Oinam Bembem Devi | FIFA code | IND | FIFA ranking | 52[1] | Highest FIFA ranking | 50 (March 2009) | Lowest FIFA ranking | 100 (September
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The 12th International Conference of International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG) 1-6 October‚ 2008 Goa‚ India Earthquake Risk Mitigation Strategies in India C. Ghosh National Institute of Disaster Management‚ New Delhi‚ India Keywords: Disaster Management‚ earthquake‚ mitigation‚ building codes‚ ABSTRACT: About 59% of India’s land area is under the threat of moderate to severe earthquake shaking intensity VII and higher. In the last 20 years‚ 8 major
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