Despite of different diversities there are bonds of unity in India. These bonds of unity may be located in a certain underlying uniformity of life as well as in certain mechanisms of integration. Herbert Risley‚ Census Commissioner in 1911 has rightly observed‚ “Beneath the manifold diversity of physical and social type‚ language‚ custom and religion which strike the observer in India there can still be discerned a certain underlying uniformity of life from the Himalayas to Cape Comorin”. India
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Architecture‚ Hindu-temples-gopurans Landscape Weather Population- 7 million Local and international: media‚ food -History‚ Culture of India- Population: 1 billion Space‚ 1/3 of USA 15 major languages‚ many alphabets Two national languages: Hindi & English World’s largest democracy Most diverse nation: ethnic groups‚ cultures Many musical types‚ diverse ecology Regionalism: North & South -The Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2500- c. 1700 B.C.E)- Long History 5 thousand years back Archaeological
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The Ayodhya dispute (Hindi: अयोध्या विवाद‚ Urdu: ایودھیا وِواد) is a political‚ historical and socio-religious debate in India‚ centred on a plot of land in the city of Ayodhya‚ Faizabad district‚ Uttar Pradesh. The main issues revolve around access to a site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of the Hindu God Rama‚ the history and location of the Babri Mosque at the site‚ and whether a previous Hindu temple was demolished or modified to create the mosque. The Babri Mosque was destroyed by
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Embedded Assessment #2 Have you ever wondered about the effect of a person’s culture on their views? Culture has an important effect on a person’s views. Many authors‚ such as Amy Tan‚ Santha Rama Rau‚ and Robert Lake‚ have strong views about culture. Their stories show the relationship between a person’s culture and their view on the world. A person’s culture can affect the way they view others and the world. One short story that shows how culture affects a person’s views is the short story‚ “By
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A GREAT MASTER Baba Gurbachan Singh was born on December 10‚ 1930 in Peshawar‚ now in Pakistan. He received boundless love and affection from his parents. Baba Avtar Singh and Jagat Mata Budhwanti as also from the True Master‚ Baba Buta Singh‚ then residing with the family. Right from his infancy‚ the child Gurbachan manifested rare and remarkable qualities. These qualities comprised sensitiveness to human sorrow and suffering‚ sympathy for the afflicted‚ avoidance of all disputes and discords and
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was one of the legendary playback singer. Asha’s career started in 1943.Most of her music consists of ghazals‚ traditional classical music‚ Quwwalis‚ Bhajans‚ film music‚ folk music‚ and Rabindra sangeet. She sung in fourteen languages including Hindi‚ Malayalam‚ Tamil‚ Urdu‚ Punjabi‚ Marathi‚ Nepali‚ English‚ Czech and Russian. She has sung over 10‚000songs.She is one of the greatest playback singers in Bollywood history. She did playback singing for more than 1000 movies. The age of ten she sang
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Indians who adored those English speaking Indian ‘Sahibs.’ I believe and I am sure you would agree with me that if Nehru had delivered the speech in Hindi‚ its appeal among the English speaking Indians would have been weak and it might have been so forgotten. In his effective
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the bhajan‚ dhun or kirtan for Hindus‚ the kawali (qawali) for Muslims‚ and the shabad for Sikhs. Not all the music is serious; there are also many popular genres. The gazal is one style‚ which is known for it rich poetic‚ and romantic content. The Hindi geet which is basically just a song and undoubtedly the most popular is the film song .There are also a few genres which are oriented specifically toward musical education. The
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Dhoom: 3 Movie Review & Film Summary (2013) | Roger Ebert 1/27/2014 In Memoriam 1942 – 2013 “Roger Ebert loved movies.” RogerEbert.com Reviews Great Movies Chaz’s Blog Blogs Far Flungers Channels Contributors Stranger by the Lake Both a supreme erotic thriller and a meditation on the nature of desire itself. At a gay cruising spot somewhere in France‚ the main character… I‚ Frankenstein Ridiculous plotting that crosses Mary Shelley with demonology out of "Underworld" are
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Lal Bal Pal (Hindi: लाल बाल पाल‚ Lala Lajpat Rai‚ Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal) were the Swadeshi triumvirate who advocated the Swadeshi movement involving the boycott of all imported items and the use of Indian-made goods in 1907. The last years of the nineteenth century‚ saw a radical sensibility emerge among some Indian Intellectuals. This position burst onto the national all-India scene in 1905 with the Swadeshi movement - the term is usually rendered as "self reliance" or "self
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