India discovers herself again." - Jawaharlal Nehru (Speech on Indian Independence Day‚ 1947) History of Independence Day On the eve of India’s independence‚ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru famous speech “Tryst with Destiny” marked the beginning of a free India with words symbolizing hope and triumph. India got its independence from the clutches of British rule on 15th August 1947. It was this day when India’s tricolor flag was unfolded by Pandit Nehru on the barricades of the Red Fort at Delhi.
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Chapter III Nationalism in India As you have seen‚ modern nationalism in Europe came to be associated with the formation of nation-states. It also meant a change in people’s understanding of who they were‚ and what defined their identity and sense of belonging. New symbols and icons‚ new songs and ideas forged new links and redefined the boundaries of communities. In most countries the making of this new national identity was a long process. How did this consciousness emerge in India?
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civil disobedience and non-cooperation with the British by some members of the Indian congress party for example Nehru. They took up the cause of home rule in 1917 and were guided in their campaign by Mahatma (Muhandas). He encouraged the boycotting of British goods and non-payment of taxes‚ he also encouraged passive‚ or non-violent‚ resistance to the British. In early 1930 Gandhi‚ Nehru and the congress made a call for purna swarag‚ or complete independence from British rule. Gandhi wrote a letter
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Venue : Convenor Attended by: 1. Basanti Kumari Nayak‚ Satyawati College 2. Supriti Mishra‚ Shyam Lal College 3. Chhavi Gautam‚ Kamla Nehru College 4. Lokendra Kumawat‚ Ramjas College 5. Rashmi Mittal‚ Dyal Singh College 6. Reetika Rana‚ Shivaji College 7. Punam Tyagi‚ Kalindi College 8. Aditi Aeron Bansal‚ Shaheed Bhagat Singh College 9. Vandana Sethi‚ Motilal Nehru College 10. Nidhi Dhamija‚ Hindu College 11. Ranjan‚ A.R.S. D. College 12. Rashmi Sharma‚ Delhi College of Art & Commerce 13. Aruna‚
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4/28/13 Print Page India’s best research universities The top 50 outstanding ones are state level universities and some of them have severe fund constraints... WHILE Indian Institute of Science (IIS) and AIIMS are the dominant performers in the research output domain‚ the state universities too have performed very well. In the top 50‚ nearly half of them are state level universities and some of them have severe fund constraints. But that has not deterred them from publishing well and getting
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eight children of Ambalal and Sarla Devi. He had his early education in a private school‚ “Retreat” run by his parents on Montessori lines. Some of the great men of India such as Gurudev Rabindranath‚ J. Krishna Murthi‚ Motilal Nehru‚ V. S. Shrinivasa Shastri‚ Jawaharlal Nehru‚ Sarojini Naidu‚ Maulana Azad‚ C. F. Andrews‚ and C. V. Raman et al. used to stay with the Sarabhai family when they visited Ahmedabad. Mahatma Gandhi also once stayed at their house while recovering from an illness. Visits by
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stage with the BJP‚[146] as well as with powerful regional parties which have often forced the creation of multi-party coalitions at the centre.[147] In the Republic of India’s first three general elections‚ in 1951‚ 1957‚ and 1962‚ the Jawaharlal Nehru-led Congress won easy victories. On Nehru’s death in 1964‚ Lal Bahadur Shastri briefly became prime minister; he was succeeded‚ after his own unexpected death in 1966‚ by Indira Gandhi‚ who went on to lead the Congress to election victories in 1967
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Gujarat National Law University Research Paper-Introduction to Indian History Topic-Amalgamation of Princely States in India Amalgamation of the Princely States in India By: Devanshi Sharma First Semester Table of Contents 1. Introduction..............................................................................................................4 2. Chamber of Princes and its importance...................................................................7 3. Lapse of Paramountcy
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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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became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement‚ with over 15 million members and over 70 million participants in its struggle against British rule in India. After independence in 1947‚ it became the nation ’s dominant political party‚ led by the Nehru-Gandhi family for the most part; major challenges for party leadership have only recently formed. In the 2009 general elections‚ the Congress emerged as the single largest party in the Lok Sabha‚ with 206 of its candidates getting elected to the 543-member
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