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    Summary of " ’Indians ’: TextualismMorality‚ and the Problem of History" In the essay " ’Indians ’: TextualismMorality‚ and the Problem of History" written by Jane Tompkins‚ an English professor at Duke University‚ the author criticized the history writers and described the issue of problems that are often created by different perspectives from the history on the topic‚ European -Indian relation‚ that cannot be determined from right or wrong. Many problems contain one main fact behind it. However

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    "Indians" By Jane Tompkins: How Bias Affect Ones Concept of History Whenever you are in any educational situation‚ you are subject to perspectives and bias of the instructors. In an essay entitled "Indians‚" by Jane Tompkins‚ it discusses how different biases may reflect upon one’s concept of history. It is imperative to realize that when learning‚ which generally involves someone’s concept of history‚ we are consequently subject to that person’s perspectives that may be a result of

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    Analysis of “Pedagogy of the Distressed” by Jane Tompkins Education is an essential piece of the makeup of our world. From the simplest objective such as riding a bike to solving a math problem‚ education starts when we are young and never stops. While we are young‚ parents and teachers find their own way of introducing new things to us in ways in which we can understand. As we get older‚ however children want to experience things on their own and in their own way. Teachers can sometimes get

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    how did Indians respond to the government’s agenda to solve “the Indian Problem”? Where did they cooperate—and why—and where did they resist—and why? The “Indian Problem” was the “burden” that the United States Government faced throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Government considered the Indians to be a “problem” due to the fact that native tribes were halting the expansionist policy popular in the 1800’s. The main aspects targeted and defined as the “Indian Problem” by the

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    Indian History - Important events History of India . An overview : The people of India have had a continuous civilization since 2500 B.C.‚ when the inhabitants of the Indus River valley developed an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade. This civilization declined around 1500 B.C.‚ probably due to ecological changes. During the second millennium B.C.‚ pastoral‚ Aryan-speaking tribes migrated from the northwest into the subcontinent. As they settled in the middle Ganges

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    The history of India begins with evidence of human activity of Homo sapiens‚ as long as 75‚000 years ago‚ or with earlier hominids including Homo erectusfrom about 500‚000 years ago.[1] The Indus Valley Civilisation‚ which spread and flourished in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent from c. 3300 to 1300 BCE in present-day Pakistan and northwest India‚ was the first major civilisation in South Asia.[2] A sophisticated and technologically advanced urban culture developed in the Mature

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    The History of Indian Economic History Prasannan Parthasarathi May 2012 Introduction While there is a long tradition of both historical and economic thinking in the Indian subcontinent‚ modern economic history may be dated from the late nineteenth century. From the early pioneers of economic history‚ including Mahadev Govind Ranade and Romesh Chander Dutt‚ the field reached a high level in India‚ giving rise to a stellar set of practitioners and an impressive body of scholarship‚ ranging from Irfan

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    How the Indians solved the problems of living on the plains The Plains Indians were a people who had to survive under harsh living conditions. They were faced with many problems and challenges and yet they survived for hundreds of years thanks to their way of life. Each tribe was accustomed to different methods of survival; some were nomads and some were settled in the same place‚ but they all had similar attributes on how to survive. The Native American Indians main source of food was hunting

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    Name | Designation | Contact Numbers | Office of the Minister of Railways | Dr. C. P. Joshi  mr@rb.railnet.gov.in | Minister (Addl. Charge) | +91 11 23386645‚23381213 ( Off.)  +91 11 23387333 (Fax) +91 11 23383676 (Fax) | | | Office of the Minister of State for Railways | Shri K. H. Muniyappa  khmuni@sansad.nic.in | Minister of State | +91 11 23388190‚ 23382490 ( Off.)  +91 11 23381634 (Fax) +91 11 23792703‚ 23794481 ( Res.)  +91 11 23794481 (Fax) | | | Shri P. Anand Kumar

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    Jane Austen’s novels at first glance tell a story of romance set primarily within the landowning society amidst country estates‚ and their cultivation of tea parties‚ social outings‚ and extravagant balls; ladies sashaying in flowing gowns through precisely decorated rooms‚ and men deliberating over their game of whist. The storybook romance usually unfolds in these familiar settings‚ and inevitably involves the conflict of two lovers separated by differences in social class‚ and the resulting influence

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