Places to Visit St Paul’s cathedral‚ close to BBD‚ beyond Park Street‚ Kolkata‚ was built in 1847‚ in Gothic Revival style with stained glass windows and two frescoes in Florentine Renaissance style‚ partly rebuilt after the 1934 Calcutta Earthquake. The building itself stands on the "island of attractions" in Kolkata - beside the Victoria Memorial‚ Nandan‚ Rabindra Sadan theatre complex‚ and the Birla Planetarium. Victoria memorial‚ BBD‚ Kolkata‚ was built in 1921‚ memorial building dedicated
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Shura which means “Consultation” in arabic. The real meaning of shura is the peoples right to take part in the formation of their government and their right to decide their affairs and choose a leader on the merit of his adherence and making him accountable for the decisions they make and creating a condition that would benefit the nation. Both shura and democracy are correlated to each other. Both thereby believe on ruling people on the bases laws rather then ruling individuals or a family of
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SIR SYED AHMAD KHAN A GREAT MUSLIM REFORMER Following their crushing of the revolution of 1857‚ the British consolidated their secular rule in the Indian subcontinent‚ which marginalized‚ if not totally ignored‚ religion‚ particularly Islam. The whole of India suffered in the backlash‚ but the consequences were most devastating for the Muslims. It was at this critical juncture that Syed Ahmad Khan (1817-1898) gallantly came forward to counter the threat‚ and to defend the Islamic faith and
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Education of Indians had become a topic of interest among East India Company officials from the outset of the Company’s rule in Bengal.[65] In the last two decades of the 18th century and the first decade of the nineteenth‚ Company officials pursued a policy of conciliation towards the native culture of its new dominion‚ especially in relation to education policy.[65] . During the 19th century‚ the Indian literacy rates were rumoured to be less than half of post independence levels which were 18
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the British East India Company in the year 1849 at the age of 22. Pandey was part of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry and is primarily known for his involvement in an attack on his senior British officers on 29th March 1857 at Barrackpore. This incident marked an opening stage ofSepoy Mutiny of 1857 or the First War of Indian Independence. It is said that
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Auguste Comte Isidore Auguste Marie François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857)‚ better known as Auguste Comte‚ was a French philosopher. He was a founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term. Comte’s father‚ Louis‚ a government tax official‚ and his mother‚ Rosalie (Boyer) Comte‚ were both monarchists and devout Roman Catholics. While attending the University
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State Historical Society. http://dig.lib.niu.edu/ISHS/ishs-2004summer/ishs-2004summer107.pdf‚ 2004. Jessee‚ Dean. The Reliability of Joseph Smith ’s History‚ Journal of Mormon History 3: 23–46‚ 1976. Linder‚ Douglas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857 and the Trials of John D. Lee. Famous Trials‚ 2006. Web. 14 Nov. 2012. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mountainmeadows/leeaccount.html (accessed Novemeber 9‚ 2012). Roberts‚ B. H. History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. Bose‚ Sudhindra [ 3 ]. Martineau‚ Harriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. [ 4 ]. Martineau‚ Harriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. [ 5 ]. Martineau‚ Harriet. British rule in India; a historical sketch.. London: Smith‚ Elder and Co.; [etc.]‚ 1857. [ 6 ]. Mahajan‚ Vidya Dhar‚ and Savitri Mahajan. British rule in
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin intended to show the cruelty of slavery. - Uncle Tom’s Cabin may be described as a powerful political force. - As a result of reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ many northerners swore that they would have. -When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom’s Cabin‚ their governments realized that intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the
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Abolishing slavery was on the United States government’s mind heavily during the years of 1787-1857. The government didn’t turn there face from this horrible spreading epidemic either; they made significant efforts towards abolishing slavery. They hit hard on the fact that it was so immoral and someday would eventually be abolished. The government constructed a few main ideas to help abolish slavery and they were stopping slave trade‚ prohibiting slavery in new territories and humanizing African
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