"History of India" Essays and Research Papers

Ancient Indians were not known to have a great sense of history. Historians have had to rely a lot on accounts by foreign travellers and foreign sources to reconstruct our history. And all such sources‚ including Megasethenes‚ Fa-hsien and many medieval Arab travellers‚ have uniformly found that Indians were remarkably law abiding and that crime was very rare. Most historians including A.L. Basham and recent writers like Abraham Eraly have treated such rosy accounts with suspicion merely because

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between three quatrains and an ending couplet‚ "To India My Native Land" is a song of love and deep emotion from Henry Louis Vivian Derozio to his "fallen country‚" India. The poem was published before Derozio’s untimely death at the age of twenty-two from cholera in 1831. The abab abcc dede ff rhyme scheme employed by Derozio is most clearly identifiable as a variation of Edmund Spenser’s Amoretti rhyme scheme Introduction to the Poem • To India- My Native Land is one of the best known poem of

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India’s
 contribu*on
 to
the
rest
of
 the
world
 “India is the cradle of the human race‚
the
birthplace
of
 human
speech‚
the
mother
of
history‚
the
grandmother
 of
legend‚
and
the
great
grand
mother
of
tradi*on.
Our
 most
 valuable
 and
 most
 construc*ve
 materials
 in
 the
 history
of
man
are
treasured
up
in
India
only”
 Mark Twain  "India was the motherland of our race 
 and
Sanskrit
the
mother
of
Europe’s
languages.

 India
was
the
mother
of
our
philosophy‚

 of
much
of
our
 mathema*cs

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The origin of the state is shrouded in mystery. It lies in the limbs of the obscure past. History does not help authentically in tracing the origin of the state‚ why and when it came into existence. It is because of the lack of historical evidence that a political thinker has to depend upon sociology‚ biology‚ ethnology and anthropology for any suggestion as to the circumstances and conditions under which the state came into being. But the material at our disposal is so inadequate that we have to

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Partition of India‚ Portrayed in the Novels India suffered the stigma of slavery under British for about three centuries. When it got freedom‚ it was also not without paying the high cost in the form of partition. This historical event is significant in the world history not only as a political occurrence which gave birth to two nations‚ but as the most treacherous occasion for thousand of the men who lost their lives‚ hundreds of women who were raped & treated most ruthlessly and for countless

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driven. They have been confined to the hearth and home. The orthodox male-oriented society in India has still not been able to adjust itself to the fresh wave of women’s liberation. But today the times have changed‚ the Indian woman has cast off her age-old shakles of serfdom and male domination. She has come to her own and started scaling the ladders of social advance with proud dignity. In Vedic India‚ woman enjoyed an enviable status She was considered to be a goddess‚ something like the Greek

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Ancient India Today in Social Studies class I learned about India. The five topics Ms. Chan taught me for India is Science‚ Technology‚ Writing‚ Math‚ and Art. There were a lot of interesting things I didn’t know. I will start off with Science. There are two different types of Science in India‚ first the Medical Science‚ and then the Astronomy Science. In the Medical Science the Indians created two hospitals‚ one for people‚ and the other for animals. They also conducted surgeries. These surgeries

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Country INDIA. The “I” in India is ‘Me’. ‘I’ am ‘India’ and ‘India’ is in ‘me’. Thus‚ if India‚ my Country‚ is not doing well in some spheres and is still amongst the Developing Countries of the World is spite of its man power then we need to ask ourselves as to who is responsible for it? Dr. Abdul kalam had once asked a little Girl‚ what was her dream for India? She replied “I dream of a developed India”.this impressed him and to be honest this is also ‘My Dream’. I dream of an India where every

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India Unbound charts‚ from a politico-economic perspective‚ the story of India as a nation from the pre independence era of 1942 to the post reform period‚ circa Year 2000. The author has for the most part narrated the story in the first person‚ interspersing his account with facts and figures. One thing that is abundantly clear about the book is that economy is at the forefront of the author’s mind. So‚ while numerous accounts of the political developments are available for both pre- and post- independence

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Introduction: If we glimpse over the world history we can see a lot of civilization existed from the beginning of the mankind. In the initial stage no legal institutions existed in those civilizations. It developed slowly according to their need‚ safety as well as establishment of humanity. The people who lived in India till the Muslims invaded India were Hindus and they govern by their personal law and that is called Hindus Law. During the ancient period in ancient India‚ Hindu society‚ Institutions and

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