NEHRU’S ‘THE DISCOVERY OF INDIA’ A Brief Study JAGDISH V. DAVE M. N. College‚ Visnagar (NG)‚ Gujarat The Discovery of India was written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment in 1942-1946 at Ahmednagar in the Ahmednagar Fort. Nehru was jailed for his participation in the Quit India movement along with other Indian leaders‚ and he used this time to write down his thoughts and knowledge about India’s history. The book is widely regarded as a classic
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actually got independence in 1948 after the Second World War. Gandhi was a big leader in a group called the INC. they organized protests all over India to gain independence. There are many contributors to the fact that India got independence‚ such as Nehru who was the president of the INC‚ he took over from Gandhi. Gandhi organized many protests over India including the salt march‚ which is one of his most famous protests. He believed in non- cooperation‚ In this essay I will look at whether if Gandhi
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26th August 1910 – 5th September 1997 By: Christina Donnelly Contents page 1. Cover page 2. Contents page 3. Mother Teresa’s background 4. Mother Teresa’s vocation 5. The work of Mother Teresa 6. Pictures of Mother Teresa and her work 7. Mother Teresa’s quotes Mother Teresa’s background Originally named Agnes ‚ Mother Teresa was born on August 27‚ 1910 in Skopje (present day Macedonia). Agnes’s family were Albanian Catholic and they belong to the Albanian community. Her
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Nehru’s Dream of Socialism Jawaharlal Nehru was‚ in the truest sense‚ the builder of modern India. He saw the naked poverty and hunger of the Indian people and registered his protest through his lectures in meetings throughout the country‚ and through his writings against the British Government. He was a true national leader. “Nationalism of the modern type‚” as Jawaharlal pointed out‚ “was yet to come. India had still to go through much sorrow and travail before she learnt the lesson which
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Freedom Fighters of India Vallabhbhai Patel His brave deeds earned Vallabhbhai Patel the title of the iron man of India. For his role in the Bardoli Satyagraha‚ Patel came to be called the Sardar. Sardar Patel was a famous lawyer but gave up his practice in order to fight for the freedom of the country. After independence he became the deputy PM of India and played an important role the integration of India by merging numerous princely states with the Indian Union. Bal Gangadhar Tilak Bal Gangadhar
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walking along it‚ in the same way‚ our habits‚ good or bad‚ are formed due to repeated acts. It has been truly said‚’ sow a thought‚ you reap an act; sow an act‚ you reap a habit; sow a habit‚ you reap a character; sow a character‚ you reap your destiny’. We should perform the habit of industry‚ honesty‚ early rising‚
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Children’s day Exactly a hundred and twenty-one years ago in Allahabad‚ on 14th November‚ 1889‚ a son was born to an eminent lawyer‚ Motilal Nehru and his wife Swaroop Rani. They named him Jawaharlal. He was an exceptional child‚ brilliant and compassionate and was greatly loved by all. His father wanted to give him the best education and so sent him to England to do his M.A. from Cambridge. On his return to India‚ young Jawaharlal realised that he was not interested in making money through
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rejection of the recommendations of the Simon Commission by Indians‚ an all-party conference was held at Bombay in May 1928. This was meant to instill a sense of resistance among people. The conference appointed a drafting committee under Motilal Nehru to draw up a constitution for India. The Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress asked the British government to accord dominion status to India by December 1929‚ or a countrywide civil disobedience movement would be launched. By 1929‚ however
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the Kashmir problem have been well delineated. The negative phipty is heavier from my point of view. As for any book of such wide breadth‚ the depth is sadly missing. The whole Nehru era though occupying a third of the book feels shallow when compared to recent works like M.J.Akbar’s spirited biography of Nehru. The post liberalization India is given a cursory glance. To be fair to the author‚ his main intent is to chronicle India till 1989 from when on he reckons history is too close to the
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