It involves clearing a patch of forest land‚ but retaining useful trees and plant varieties‚ cultivating it for two to three years and then abandoning it for 10-20 years to allow the natural forest to grow back and the soil to regain its fertility. The cycle of cultivation‚ leaving it fallow and coming back to it for cultivation‚ is called the Jhum cycle. Traditionally‚ a village community owns/controls the forest land and decides on such rotational cultivation pattern. Thus the community cultivates
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Non-contributing population 11 Happiness Index 11 Seasonal factors 12 Inequality and IHDI 12 Morality and Materialism 12 Income Variation 13 HDI across States of India 13 Income Dimension 15 Education Dimension 15 Health Dimension 17 Intra-district disparity 17 Challenges to HD faced by States 17 How can we improve HDI of India? 18 Education 19 Health 19 Employment and Skills 20 How can we make HDI a better indicator of development? 21 Including Happiness Index 21 Data sources
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NATIONALISM IN INDIA TIMELINE 1914 1918 The First World War 1913 1918 The war prices increased in double 19181919 & 19201921 Crop failure 1921 Famines and the epidemic Mahatma Gandhi 1916 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha movement in Champaran(Bihar) 1917 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha movement in Kheda District (Gujarat) 1918 Mahatma Gandhi organized satyagraha Movement in Ahmedabad. 1919 Rowlatt Act was Passed (It gave the govt. enormous powerto represspolitical activities
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India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse: A new vision for 2030 Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action 3 April 2013 Copyright © 2013‚ by McKinsey & Company‚ Inc. India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse: A new vision for 2030 Food and Agriculture Integrated Development Action (FAIDA) 3 April 2013 FAIDA 3: India as an agriculture and high value food powerhouse by 2030 | 5 Executive Summary The Indian food and agriculture industry
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SUBJECT: Social behavior and personal space of India DATE: July 16‚ 2005 MESSAGE: In doing research‚ I found the following information to be of great value when doing business in India. Personal space in not a concept that the Indians have thoroughly developed in their country (Moxon‚ 1998). They are very curious people and will start a conversation with you the moment they see you. They will ask many questions including questions of a personal nature (Mathew‚ 1996). Indians
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AGRICULTURE IN INDIA The importance of agriculture to our economy can hardly be over-emphasized. It is the most important source of raw materials to feed our industries It provides employment to about 70 percent of our total labour force. It contributes more than 40 percent to our total national income. And it is one of the major foreign exchange earners for our economy. But unfortunately‚ it does not .appear to be as sound as it should have been. The basic industry of India is agriculture. India is the
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The Problem of Secularism in India Secularism is one of the most contested ideologies in most parts of the world. As T.N. Madan (1997) states‚ we may not hear of wholly secularised societies‚ even in the West‚ which is responsible for introducing the ideology to the rest of the world. In the Indian context‚ no other ideology may have generated more attention‚ debate and controversy since the country’s independence. Yet‚ despite the vast and varied literature and public discourse‚ the ideal of secularism
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India Climate: India’s climate is strongly influenced by the Himalayas and the Thar Desert. The Himalayas‚ along with the Hindu Kush mountains in Pakistan‚ prevent cold Central Asian katabatic winds from blowing in‚ keeping the bulk of the Indian subcontinent warmer than most locations at similar latitudes. Concurrently‚ the Thar Desert plays a role in attracting moisture-laden southwest summer monsoon winds that‚ between June and October‚ provide the MOST of India’s rainfall. At the moment‚ India’s
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India Untouched - Stories of a People Apart is perhaps the most comprehensive look at Untouchability ever undertaken on film. Director Stalin K. spent four years traveling the length and breadth of the country to expose the continued oppression of "Dalits"‚ the "broken people" who suffer under a 4000-year-old religious system. The film introduces leading Benares scholars who interpret Hindu scriptures to mean that Dalits "have no right" to education‚ and Rajput farmers who proudly proclaim that no
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Pepsi wanted to enter India… As the major market for PepsiCo‚ the US‚ was reaching saturation levels India’s vast population offered a huge untapped customer base Urbanization had familiarized indians with leading global brands Question 1 Why do companies like Pepsi need to globalize? What are various ways in which foreign companies can enter a foreign market? What hurdles and problems did India face when it tried to enter India in 1980s? Need for globalization Wider and newer
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