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    British Imperialism

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    three presidencies of Calcutta‚ Madras‚ and Bombay. In consequence‚ they were still responsible to the Court of Directors in London and the East India Company garnered huge profits generated by a system of triangular trade that saw English gold and silver coins traded for Indian goods. It is not much say that British rule in India was originated from having begun in 1757. On June 23rd of that year‚ at the Battle of Plassey‚ a small village and mango grove between Calcutta and Murshidabad‚ the forces

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    subhash chandra bose

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    In 1927‚ after being released from prison‚ Bose became general secretary of the Congress party and worked with Jawaharlal Nehru for independence. Again Bose was arrested and jailed for civil disobedience; this time he emerged to become Mayor of Calcutta in 1930. During the mid-1930s Bose travelled in Europe‚ visiting Indian students and European politicians‚ including Benito Mussolini. He observed party organisation and saw communism and fascism in action. By 1938 Bose had become a leader of national

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    CE/Allot/22/15/02 UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA NOTICE It is notified for information of all concerned that as approved by the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic)‚ CU‚ the commencing dates of the under mentioned Examinations of 2015 have been fixed as follows: (Subject to unavoidable changes) THEORETICAL EXAMINATIONS PART-I & II SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATION‚ 2014 Sl. No. 1. 2. Name of Examinations B.A./B.Sc. Part-I & Part-II Supplementary Examination‚ 2014 B.Com. Part-I & Part-II Supplementary Examination‚ 2014

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    adilmohdblog.com/communalism-result-of-british-policy-of-divide-rule-katju-to-adilmohd-question-is-british-are-gone-yet-forces-divide-rule-us-why/) R. Murphey (2009) A History of Asia 6th edition Ch.20 p.465 N.p. Direct Action Day Manifesto‚ Calcutta and “Analysis of the Calcutta Killings‚ 1946.” Web. 13 February 2013. (http://www.leics.gov.uk/directactioncalcutta46.pdf)

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    The God of Small Things

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    questions its equity. Rahel and Esthappen (Estha) are seven year old fraternal twins. They are living in Ayemenem with their mother Ammu and her brother Chacko‚ their grandmother Mammachi and their great-aunt Baby Kochamma. Their father Baba lives in Calcutta. Ammu left him when the twins were two years old. The family is expecting the arrival of Margaret and Sophie Mol‚ Chacko’s ex-wife and daughter‚ who are living in England. Since Margaret’s second husband Joe had died in a car accident‚ Chacko invited

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    very popular among the reading public. Yet another weekly‚ Amrita Bazar Patrika which was being published from Jessore‚ was critical of the government‚ with the result that its proprietors faced trial and conviction. In 1871‚ the Patrika moved to Calcutta and another Act was passed to suppress it and other native journals. Marathi Press Mahadev Govind

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    Kumar Ghosh was the first editor. In 1871‚ the Patrika moved to Calcutta‚ due to the outbreak of plague in Amrita Bazaar and functioned as bilingual weekly‚ publishing news and views in English and Bengali. The Patrika became a daily in 1891. It was the first Indian-owned English daily to go into investigative journalism. The Patrika backed the cause of communal harmony during the Partition of India. During the great Calcutta killings of 1946‚ the Patrika left its editorial columns blank for three

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    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

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    College‚ Madras‚ in the Madras Provincial Educational Service‚ after graduation; Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the same College for five years; Professor of Philosophy‚ Mysore University (1918-1921); King George V Professor of Philosophy‚ Calcutta University (1921-1931) and again (1937-1944); Vice-Chancellor of the Andhra University (1931); Spaulding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics‚ Oxford University (1932-1953) - first Indian

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    evident in the novel The Namesake and is expressed through a variety of literary techniques. The Namesake portrays the Ganguli family over a course of thirty-two years. It follows Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli from shortly after their emigration from Calcutta‚ India‚ to Cambridge‚ Massachusetts in the late 1960’s. The story then follows the couple as their children are born and raised in the United States. It is their struggles‚ particularly those of the eldest son‚ Gogol‚ that compromise the bulk of

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    Social Reforms in India

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    The same set of circumstances the impact modern education‚ rational‚ Urnanitarian and scientific approach to life which ushered in both in action reaction reform movements in religion were largely responsible for social reform movements in the 19th and 20th centuries Rammohan Roy‚ a pioneer in modern religious reform movements in India‚ was also the Morning Star of GullyBaba Publishing House modern social reform movement in the country. Social reform became integral part of religious reform in

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