Train to Pakistan One of the most brutal episodes in the planet’’s history‚ in which a million men‚ women‚ and children were killed and ten million were displaced from their homes and belongings‚ is now over half a century old. Partition‚ a euphemism for the bloody violence that preceded the birth of India and Pakistan as the British hurriedly handed over power in 1947‚ is becoming a fading word in the history books. First-hand accounts will soon vanish. Khushwant Singh‚ who was over thirty at the
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Lokmanya Tilak was born at Chummakachu Lane (Ranjani Aaleea) in Chikhalgaon‚ Ratnagiri‚ Maharashtra to a Chitpavan Brahmin family. His father‚ Mr.Gangadhar Tilak was a famous schoolteacher and a Sanskrit scholar. Bal Gangadhar Tilak was a bright child and very good at mathematics. The problems the teacher gave to work our on paper‚ Bal would do them mentally and give the answer. He also had a sense of fairness and justice from very early age. He was very independent minded and did not falter at expressing
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Almost 85% of language Pakistani Muslims are Sunni Muslims and 15% are Shia Muslim. • 2nd largest religion is Hindusim. India: • Located: In South-Asia • Bordered by: the Indian Ocean on the south‚ the Arabian Sea on the south-west‚ and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east‚ it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China‚ Nepal‚ and Bhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east. Politics: • India is a federal constitutional republic governed under a parliamentary system consisting
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indomitable team of political workers‚ having the tenacity and steadfastness to face any challenge in their efforts to achieve their objective - i.e. the creation of a separate home land for the Muslim of the subcontinent. The Hindus had opposed the partition of the subcontinent tooth and nail and considered it to be the desecration of “Mother India”. The Quaid‚ initially a proponent of Hindu-Muslim unity‚ soon realised that the Hindus wanted to avenge themselves for the hundreds of years of subjugation
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December in the same year‚ which is celebrated as Victory Day. Bangladesh and Pakistan The creation of Pakistan contained the germs of discord between "West Pakistanis" and Bangalis. Initially‚ the population of East Bengal supported the creation of Pakistan‚ that is‚ the partition of the Indian subcontinent into two constituent parts following the withdrawal and departure of the British. The Bengali support for the creation of Pakistan was a result of the transformation of the Bangalis in British
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Literature in 1913.[2] His poetry in translation was viewed as spiritual‚ and this together with his mesmerizing persona gave him a prophet-like aura in the west. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" still remain largely unknown outside the confines of Bengal.[3] A Pirali Brahmin[4][5][6][7] from Kolkata‚ Tagore had been writing poetry since he was eight years old.[8] At age 16‚ he published his first substantial poetry under the pseudonym Bhanushingho ("Sun Lion")[9][10] and wrote his first short stories
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Muktijuddha Jadughar Brief essay on liberation War of Bangladesh: In August 1947‚ the Partition of British India gave birth to two new states; a secular state named India and an Islamic state named Pakistan. But Pakistan comprised two geographically and culturally separate areas to the east and the west of India. The western zone was popularly termed West Pakistan and the eastern zone was initially termed East Bengal and later‚ East Pakistan. Although the population of the two zones was close to equal
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research was encouraged‚ and irrigation focused upon. The 1930s then saw the Great Depression felt worldwide. After WWII and incidents including Bengal Famine and Great Depression‚ reorganization was effected. Despite such great strides‚ there was a low productivity per hectare‚ because of several reasons‚ including the Great Depression of the 1930s‚ The Bengal Famine‚ primitive technology‚ extremely frequent droughts‚ unemployment or under-employment‚ poverty and exploitation of the rural community
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Women. I have learnt that this college is devoted to the education of girl students from diverse background for the last 60 years. The college which was originally founded by renowned nationalist Sri Surendranath Banerjee‚ in 1948 to serve the partition affected families‚ is today one of the most prominent colleges in central Kolkata in the field of journalism and mass communication. Today‚ when we are facing ongoing rapid transition from print media to online media‚ there is a big and natural
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Shivaji’s Night attack on Shaista Khan at Pune which nullifies all the Mughal gains at one stroke (5th April 1663) It is one of the most famous exploits of Shivaji early in his career and has never been forgotten by successive generations in India. Shaista Khan‚ the maternal uncle of Emperor Aurangzeb‚ and the new Governor of Deccan‚ had made Shivaji’s position precarious by his furious offensive. He had even occupied Pune (9th May 1660). Shivaji had already lost Chakan (August 1660)‚ Kalian (May
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