struggle in all the states to stop exploitation by the Jagirdars and Zamindars. Some of the movements were successful‚ but others failed. The Kisan Sabha movement started in Bihar under the leadership of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati who had formed in 1929 the Bihar Provincial Kisan Sabha (BPKS) in order to mobilise peasant grievances against the zamindari attacks on their occupancy rights. Gradually the peasant movement intensified and spread across the rest of India. All these radical developments on the
Premium Indian National Congress Peasant Rajasthan
Orange County 1960 ’s: The conservative movement The conservative movement that arose in the Orange Country during the 60 ’s had many different contradictory attitudes. Some people thought of it as a meaningless span of time in which the government had been put on pause while others saw it as a crucial foundation for America ’s future. McGirr clearly seems to be no follower for Orange County conservatism‚ but she is still able to keep her disagreements from breaking through in her writing. McGirr
Premium Right-wing politics Conservatism
The Khilafat movement (1919-1924) was a pan-Islamic‚ political campaign launched by Muslims in British India to influence the British government and to protect the Ottoman Empire during the aftermath of World War I. The position of Caliph after the Armistice of Mudros of October 1918 with the military occupation of Istanbul and Treaty of Versailles (1919) fell into a disambiguation along with the Ottoman Empire’s existence. The movement gained force after the Treaty of Sèvres (August 1920) which
Premium Ottoman Empire Islam Caliphate
Continental Movement Essay Continental Drift is the idea that refers to the movement of Earth’s continents and plates relative to each other. This means that the earth’s plates move because of the unending cycle of cooling and raising of molten rock‚ adding new material t0 the edges of the plates. This movement is called divergent movement‚ the most common of the three types of movement between plates. The other two movements are called convergent and transform-fault. This idea was first
Premium South America Continent Geology
Kuka Movement 1857 During the pre-independence days‚ the British followed the policy of ‘Devide and Rule’. It was their strategy to become offensive against the roots of Indian culture. During those days‚ so many Butcherkhanas (Slaughter houses) in different parts of Punjab. During the days of Maharaja Ranjit Singh‚ there was total ban on cow slaughter. When British annexed Punjab‚ they printed these words on copper plates – “COW are not to be killed in Amritsar. The Penalty of killing cow is
Free Sikh Sikhism Punjab region
Father of Aligarh movement This most respected and important educational centre for Indian Muslims was initially founded as Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College (MAOC) at Aligarh in 1875 by Sir Saiyad Ahmed Khan and subsequently raised to the status of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in 1920. Aligarh Muslim University (AMU)‚ known more as a movement than an academic institution is one of the most important chapters of Indian history as far as the sociology of Hindu-Muslim relation is concerned. Sir
Premium Muslim Uttar Pradesh Islam
“Every form of society has been based‚ as we have already seen‚ on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes.”1 It is from this class antagonism that the communist movement tried to break away from. Karl Marx saw the proletariat as the most oppressed class and in his efforts to remedy this‚ the idea of communism was born. In the beginning it was the feudal lords who owned the land that subjugated the serfs. When the feudal system crumpled and fell it was the bourgeois who picked up the
Premium Marxism Karl Marx Communism
American Literary Movements American literature has progressed through many great phases throughout history. One such literary movement was romanticism. Romanticism was a movement characterized by a fascination of the supernatural and strong emotion. Regionalism is another interesting period of American history. In regionalism‚ the author tends to focus on a specific area‚ and tries to convey the “local color”‚ or traits of the specific area. A third example of literature movements in America was
Premium Mark Twain
Chicano Movement Essay Also known as “El movimiento ‘’ *is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment. The 1960s was a turbulent decade in American history‚ Fraught with conflicts over issues from Civil Rights To the war in Vietnam. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement‚ one of the least studied social movements of the 1960s‚ encompassed a broad cross section of issues. We
Premium Social movement Civil and political rights Political movement
Collins (2003) noted that the rhetoric for and by women skyrocketed between 1848 and 1919. This development can be attributed to the suffrage movement that considered the mutually exclusivity of rhetorical action and femininity (Campbell‚ 1989). The suffrage rhetoric characterizes the second wave of feminism. The emergence of the suffrage rhetoric based on the notion that suffragists were involved
Premium Gender Woman Gender role