achieving a goal. Mahatma Gandhi was the man who founded this form of protest. People‚ especially westerners‚ are astonished that this method of protest would work. They do not understand allowing people to harm you without retaliating would gain independence for India. To answer the question: How did Gandhi methods work? I would say that Gandhi’s nonviolent movement worked because of his clear communication‚ nonviolent tactics‚ and his commitment to India gaining independence. Gandhi wrote a letter to
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Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party. Gandhi‚ who served from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984‚ is the second-longest-serving Prime Minister of India and the only woman to hold the office. Indira Gandhi was the only child of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as the Chief of Staff of her father’s highly
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IS THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT WORKING AS AN IMPORTANT TOOL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT‚ GOOD GOVERNANCE AND STRONG DEMOCRACY IN INDIA? Prakhar Gupta Student PGDM-RM (2013-15) Xavier Institute of Management‚ Bhubaneswar Email: u313035@stu.ximb.ac.in Abstract: The Right to Information Act‚ 2005 is an act to empower the citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities‚ in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority. But after
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was the one who stood up for Sikh rights.Indira Gandhi tried destroying Darbar Sahib and for that she got shot. Hundreds of Sikh’s died‚ fighting for their religion. Many people lost their families; people were getting burnt alive.Darbar Sahib was surrounded by soldiers of General Brar and big cannons. The holy book (Sri Guru Granth Sahib) was hit with a bullet. All this cruelty had been done to us. Sant Jarnail Singh was this great saint.Indira Gandhi thought of him as a terrorist but Sikh’s thought
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VALLABHBHAI PATEL: Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31‚ 1875‚ in a farmer’s family in Nadiad‚ Gujarat. His father‚ Zaverbhai‚ had served in the army of Jhansi ki Rani‚ and his mother‚ Ladbai‚ was a deeply religious woman. Vallabhbhai’s initial schooling was in Gujarati. His brother Vithalbhai‚ after completing middle school‚ had enrolled himself in English tutorial classes in a nearby town. Vallabhbhai followed suit. Vallabhbhai’s superior organizational skills became evident while he was
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means for empowerment of women. The women who blazed the trail Quite often we are carried away by the roll call of honour – the name of few luminaries who have left their footprints on the sands of time or who are fighting lonely battles – Indira Gandhi‚ Sirimao Bandaranaike‚ the first woman Prime Minister of a country (Sri Lanka) in the world‚ Chandrika Kumaratunga‚ Golda Meir‚ the first woman Prime Minister of Israel‚
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h Jawaharlal Nehru If the first half of the 20th century in the history of India belonged to Mahatma Gandhi‚ the other half belonged to Jawaharlal Nehru‚ though he ruled over the newly independent India as its elected prime minister only for about 20 years from 1947 through 1964. It was on the democratic and secular pedestal that Nehru and his team built up‚ that India worked on to prove that it is a strong and prosperous presence among the comity of nations. Professor Percival Spear‚ famous
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Independent India India acquired independence on 15 August 1947 though sections of the country were carved out and stitched together to create another new country‚ Pakistan. The “institutional” road to independence was perhaps laid down by the Government of India Act of 1935‚ where the gradual emergence of India as a self-governing entity had first been partly envisioned. Following India’s independence in 1947‚ the Constituent Assembly deliberated over the precise constitutional future of India
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The Bofors scandal was a major corruption scandal in India in the 1980s; the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and several others were accused of receiving kickbacks from Bofors AB for winning a bid to supply India’s 155 mm field howitzer. The scale of the corruption was far worse than any that India had seen before‚ and directly led to the defeat of Gandhi’s ruling Indian National Congress party in the November 1989 general elections. It has been speculated that the scale of the scandal was to the
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