have to ponder many factors before redrawing boundaries and splitting up states. ‘Nationalism’ has always remained the most controversial creed in the political theory. It cannot be merely defined as the casual association of people within a territory. It is the sharing of some popular beliefs‚ ascribing a common political identity to its entire people and sharing a common history. In this context the internal outcries for separate statehood cannot be ignored prima facie. Also more and more
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North American Territory The United Kingdom gradually became interested in the North American territory through a series of events. First was their use of privateers to private Spanish merchant ships. Being an island country‚ the United Kingdom also happened to have the most heavily populated empire in the Old world. It’s so populated they began sending people over from the United Kingdom to the New world to reduce the population in their country. This lead to more and more colonists and ultimately
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The Munda are tribal (Adivasi) people of the Chota Nagpur Plateau region. They are found across much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Odisha ‚ West Bengal‚ Chhattisgahr ‚ Bihar and into parts of Bangladesh. Their language is Mundari‚ which belongs to the Munda subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family * Mostly Munda people follow the Sarna religion‚ believing in a god called Singbonga. * However one-fourth of them have adopted Christianity.[citation needed] * The surname
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Importance of education Education has an immense impact on the human society. One can safely assume that a person is not in the proper sense till he is educated. It trains the human mind to think and take the right decision. In other words‚ man becomes a rational animal when he is educated. It is through education that knowledge and information is received and spread throughout the world. An uneducated person cannot read and write and hence he is closed to all the knowledge and wisdom he can gain
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Pradesh‚ Uttarakhand and Assam. The second group consisted of the “Southern” states including Andhra Pradesh‚ Karnataka‚ Kerala and Tamil Nadu. The third and final group consisted of “Other” states which included the remaining states and Union Territories. The Maternal Mortality Ratio is shown to have declined from 254 in 2004-2006 to 212 in 2007-2009. As per the data in the Special
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Max Weber cited in Blakely and Saward (2009 P. 361) defines the state as ‘An organisation that successfully claims a monopoly of the legitimate use of force in a given territory. The word legitimate also appears in the question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate
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Australia has been the highest achieving team for eleven games‚ England for seven and Canada for one. Although there are 54 members of the Commonwealth of Nations‚ 71 teams participate in the Commonwealth Games as a number of British overseas territories‚ Crown dependencies‚ and island states compete under their own flag. The four Home Nations of the United Kingdom – England‚ Scotland‚Wales and Northern Ireland – also send separate teams. The 2010 Commonwealth Games‚ officially known as the XIX Commonwealth
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The idea of difference or strangeness dominates the human psyche. We‚ as a species‚ believe that we are ‘different’ from animals. Even as individuals‚ we believe that we are different from the ‘others’. Such a belief‚ which is the outcome of social‚ cultural and religious moorings shapes our identity. It also develops our perspective‚ shapes our attitude and defines our understanding of the world around us. In a multi-cultural and multi-religious country like India‚ the interests of various groups
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Since the beginning of Canadian history‚ regionalism has had a prominent effect on the country`s political system. The concept of regionalism can be defined as a political ideology grounded on a shared sense of place or attachment and is discussed in terms of Canadian society‚ culture‚ economy and politics.1 From the days of confederation‚ Canada has developed into regional cleavages and identities based on various geographical characteristics‚ traditional lifestyles and economic interests. Two
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came into being in 1919‚ under the Government of India Act‚ 1919. The name Rajya Sabha in Hindi was adopted on August 23‚ 1954. The total number of members in Rajya Sabha is 250. Out of these 238 members will be from different States and Union Territories while the remaining 12 members are nominated by President. Each member is elected for six years. Rajya Sabha is a permanent body and can not be dissolved fully. One third of the members are replaced by newly elected members every second year
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