North‚ Central‚ & West India BHIMBETKA (8000 B.C.) The Bhimbetka rock are an archaeological World Heritage site located in Raisen District in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The Bhimbetka shelters exhibit the earliest traces of human life in India; a number of analyses suggest that at least some of these shelters were inhabited by man for in excess of 100‚000 years. Some of the Stone Age rock paintings found among the Bhimbetka rock shelters are approximately 30‚000 years old. MAURYA and
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Honor Killing in India Honor killing can be defined as the death sentenced by family or society members to a man or woman for marrying against parent’s wish‚ having extra-marital or pre-marital affair‚ marrying outside one’s caste or within same gotra etc.‚ in order to protect the social status and honor of the family. The dishonor perceived in this kind of killings may be a result of behaviors as trivial as dressing in a manner unacceptable to the family or community‚ or having a non-sexual
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Case Study: Bella India Bella Healthcare was founded in year 1969 in Saint Louis by the brothers Greg and Todd Bella. The American company is a manufacturer for medical health monitoring devices. At the end of the 1980s‚ Bella Healthcare had already sales offices in Europe and other Asian markets with the idea of creating the first manufacturing facility outside the boarders of the United States. The main target was an industrial area (The Export Promotion Industrial Park) with a very good infrastructure
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Introduction India’s Caste System‚ a system of social stratification‚ began with the idea of keeping peace and order throughout India. Though as time passed‚ it has created a pernicious effect that restricted the growth and potentiality of a person. As such‚ the caste system is a barrier (ie. a glass ceiling) to the development of a person in a social‚ economic‚ and political manner that will continue to burden the country in the future. As time passes and nothing has significantly improved‚ the
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1933 on an India-wide tour for Harijan causes. His speeches during such tours discussed the discriminated castes of India and appealed for the eradication of untouchability. The caste system in India is a system of social stratification‚[1] social restriction and a basis for affirmative action.[2][3] Historically‚ it defined communities into thousands of endogamous hereditary groups called Jātis.[citation needed] The Jātis were grouped by the Brahminical texts under the four well-known caste categories
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whenever the US sneezes‚ the world catches a cold. This is evident from the way the Indian markets crashed taking a cue from a probable recession in the US and a global economic slowdown. Weakening of the American economy is bad news‚ not just for India‚ but for the rest of the world too. So what is a recession? A recession is a decline in a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth for two or more consecutive quarters of a year. A recession is also preceded by several quarters of slowing
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Research Paper No. 2006/98 The Public Distribution Systems of Foodgrains and Implications for Food Security A Comparison of the Experiences of India and China Zhang-Yue Zhou1 and Guanghua Wan2 September 2006 Abstract A comparative study of the public distribution systems of foodgrains in India and China is expected to reveal lessons and experiences that are valuable to policymakers. This is particularly important for developing countries in their endeavour to ensure food security. This paper
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institutions like caste which hampered social unity created a sense of oneness in the people. But most of these reform movements had certain limitations. The questions to which they gave primacy concerned only small sections of Indian society. Some of them failed to emphasize or even recognize that colonial rule was inimical to the interests of the Indian people. Most of them worked within the framework of their respective communities in a way tended to promote identities based on religion or caste. Many of
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Corruption in India. As the reverend Mahatma would have said that‚ the throng must have promised to do the same. Today‚ the same sentence but with “not” being superfluous‚ is agreeable. Recent time is witnessing a sharp fall in the values and morals of human beings. Evincing the very fact‚ India has been ranked 94th by Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index. Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. The former U.N. Secretary General‚ Kofi Annan said‚” Corruption
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Sovereignty of India Sovereignty is a sensitive issue in India even sixty years after independence. Take the recent fracas over the Indo-US nuclear deal‚ ignited quite ironically by both the Left and the Right at the same time. It has seen the debate Centre not so much on the actual agreement‚ as on the notion of an independent foreign policy. This article isn’t about the nuclear deal. It is about understanding the meaning of sovereignty in the 21st century. A proper understanding of the concept
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